The Harwood School Board has put the brakes on its consolidation exercise, shifting focus to invest over $110,000 in an architectural review of each school facility's condition before any specific changes are recommended.  

Joint fundraising by Brookside Primary and Crossett Brook Middle schools’ PTOs has rallied community support for collecting prizes and in ticket sales. A similar effort launches in Fayston in May.

Harwood Union High School’s theater program presented four performances of its spring musical “Anything Goes” on the high school stage this weekend, which also served as the backdrop to announce a $1.3 million fundraising campaign to fund upgrades to the school’s auditorium infrastructure.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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 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. 

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.

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. 

The upcoming Town Meeting Day election will be important for the Harwood Unified Union School District School Board this year as eight of the board’s 14 seats will be on ballots across five of the district’s six communities.

Crossett Brook and Harwood Union middle schools are two of five Vermont schools named as state finalists in the 15th annual Samsung Solve for Tomorrow STEM competition.