
The Town Meeting Day election failed to fill an at-large position on the Central Vermont Career Center School Board to be held by someone from the Harwood Unified Union School District.
MARCH 19: The Harwood Unified Union School District has announced revised Mud Season bus routes in effect until further notice
At its post-election organizational meeting last week, the Harwood Unified Union School District School Board re-elected its leaders, appointed members to officer roles for the coming year and looked ahead to multiple long-term projects that could spell significant changes for the future.
Crossett Brook Middle School will reopen for classes on Tuesday amidst ongoing cleanup from a significant flooding event that occurred last Thursday.
BARRE — Ballots cast on Town Meeting Day in the 18-town school district that operates the Central Vermont Career Center were finally tabulated Thursday, and its regional board now has a budget and three vacant seats to fill, even as it weighs when to ask voters to approve a bond for a new, state-of-the-art facility.
Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury was closed on Thursday and remains closed today as cleanup crews work and school officials assess damage from the second major flooding event in less than eight months.
Voters across the Harwood Unified Union School District overwhelmingly approved the $49.2 million proposed school budget for the coming year and adding $500k to the Maintenance Reserve fund. News of staffing cuts required by the new budget is expected later this month.
Tonight is the Harwood Unified Union School District's annual meeting and final informational session pertaining to the proposed 2025-26 budget that is on the ballot in all six district communities tomorrow.
Several local speakers were featured at a State House rally to “Keep the Public in Public Education” this week. Students, parents, educators and community members delivered messages to lawmakers and Gov. Phil Scott that “Vermonters want good public schools and fair taxes.”
The Children’s Literacy Foundation has announced the theme for its third annual Two-Sentence Story Contest for young writers in Vermont and New Hampshire.
The Central Vermont Career Center School District holds its annual meeting tonight including an informational presentation on the proposed $5.1 million fiscal year 2026 budget that voters will see on their Town Meeting Day ballots.
Longtime Harwood Unified Union School District employee Paul Morris, who worked as co-director of food services, is recovering from heart transplant surgery at Tufts Medical Center on Jan. 23 and fundraising efforts are underway to support him and his family.
The Vermont State School Nurses’ Association has announced that Brookside Primary School Nurse Allison Conyers of Waterbury will be honored this summer with a national award at a conference in Texas.
The program, funded by a grant secured by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., helped spark discussions about community building and social activism.
Harwood school district officials have begun community meetings to share details of the proposed $49.2 million 2025-26 school budget that voters will be asked to approve on Town Meeting Day.
In an effort to promote upcoming free school vaccine clinics, the Harwood Unified Union School District is participating in a local researcher’s project to involve community members who would share their personal stories about vaccinations.
Multiple fundraising efforts are underway to support Harwood Union High School’s theater programming, with ways for the community to support both the spring musical – “Anything Goes,” set for April 3-5 – and performances on the Harwood stage for years to come.
Waterbury’s Harry N. Cutting American Legion Post #59 recently presented academic achievement awards to two local college freshmen who graduated from Harwood Union High School in 2024.
Harwood’s school board has decided to put a 2025-26 school budget to the voters in March that increases spending slightly, is likely to lower school taxes for many, but relies on cutting some 15-20 full-time jobs across the district.
PUBLIC NOTICES
Let this serve as notice that regular education school records of students who graduated from Harwood Union High School in June 2023 or June 2024, or who were part of the Class of 2023 and Class of 2024, will be destroyed on July 1, 2025.
Here is an upcoming board meeting from the Central Vermont Career Center School District with agenda and Zoom link included.
Here is an upcoming board meeting from the Central Vermont Career Center School District with agenda and Zoom link included.
From the HUUSD
The Harwood Unified Union School Board is seeking to fill two vacant seats from Waterbury and one vacant seat from Duxbury.
Dear guardians and staff: In 2021, the Vermont legislature passed a law requiring all schools to test for radon (see Section 12 of Act 72 (2021)). Our schools are beginning that testing process in December. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about radon testing.
As most of you know our school budget failed on Town Meeting Day. There is another vote that closes on April 30th, on a revised number that reduces spending by almost $2 million.
Dear Harwood community, we write to ask you to support the school district budget during Town Meeting Day on Tuesday, March 5.
I am kindly requesting your participation in the online survey for the superintendent that the school board and I developed earlier this fall.
Dear HUUSD Community - you are invited to participate in discussions on the future of Harwood Union High School.
The following is the full text of a statement that Harwood Unified Union School Board Chair Kristen Rodgers of Moretown read at the board’s April 19 meeting prior to its vote on whether to warn the proposed revised Restraint and Seclusion Policy for adoption next month.
Dear HUUSD Community - I am pleased to announce that the school district has offered the position of Crossett Brook Middle School co-principal, pending school board approval, to Jennifer Durren.
Harwood Unified Union School District Superintendent Mike Leichliter shared the following letter from Vermont Secretary of Education Dan French today.
Editor’s Note: Harwood Superintendent Mike Leichliter sent this communication out on Monday as a refresher on the process used for handling winter weather changes to school schedules.
Harwood Union High School presents a comedy for its spring musical this year with performances of the classic “Anything Goes” set for April 3-5.