With the start of school fewer than three weeks away, state officials this week released guidance addressing COVID-19 with the goal for all schools to start fully in-person with everyone wearing masks. 

For Scott Culver, the third try to get onto the school board was the charm. 

In a brief, one-topic special meeting Wednesday evening, the Harwood Unified Union School District Board filled a vacant position representing Duxbury. The board voted 8-1 to appoint Cindy Senning to the seat.

The Harwood Unified Union School District Board has a special meeting scheduled for Wednesday evening to make one of two appointments to fill vacancies representing Duxbury and Waterbury. Two Duxbury residents, Cindy Senning and Patrick Zachary have applied.

In addition to appointing a new member to represent Duxbury next month, the Harwood Union School Board now has a Waterbury vacancy to fill this summer. Waterbury member Michael Frank, who was appointed in 2020 and was elected to a three-year term in March, has resigned. 

From Waterbury High School to Waterbury Elementary School to Thatcher Brook Primary School, the school at 47 Stowe Street will next be known as “Brookside Primary School.” The HUUSD School Board made that decision at its final meeting for this school year where it had a full agenda with multiple significant matters to address. 

Four months after Harwood Boys Hockey Coach Jacob Grout was fired for sending an expletive-laden message to his team, the Harwood school board has decided against having an investigator look into how the incident was handled. 

It’s difficult to find a Harwood Union High School graduate from the past several decades who doesn’t recognize Kathy Cadwell. But just to be sure, when she took the podium at Saturday’s commencement, she started with an introduction: “My name is Kathy Cadwell and I’m graduating from Harwood today.” 

As last days of school go, the consensus at Thatcher Brook Primary School was that this year’s final day was pretty epic. When ever has a school with some 400 students plus teachers managed to keep a secret to stage a giant surprise party when excitement for summer vacation is at an all-time high? 

Wanted: A Duxbury resident to volunteer to serve on the Harwood Union School Board for approximately six months.

The Harwood Unified Union School Board has changed plans for its special meeting at 6 p.m. this evening to discuss the hockey coach termination case from earlier this year. The meeting has been switched from an online video conference to the board’s first in-person meeting in more than a year.

The Renaming Team at Thatcher Brook Primary School this week presented to the Harwood Unified Union School Board the choice of "Brookside Primary School" as the new name for the pre-K to grade 4 school on Stowe Street.

It took a pandemic to rethink the traditional in-person 8th grade graduation at Crossett Brook Middle School this year.

It may be end-of-school madness time now but school officials in the Harwood district are already putting out bits of information signaling changes families of K-12 students can expect when school resumes in late August.

The long-sought merger of Harwood Unified Union School District’s middle schools took several big steps forward this week as the school board voted nearly unanimously to combine Harwood Union Middle School’s seventh and eighth grades with those at Crossett Brook Middle School.