Vermont State University has announced the students who graduated at the end of fall semester 2025 and those who earned placement on honors lists for the fall semester.
An upcoming cabaret fundraiser for the Harwood Auditorium Revitalization Project is seeking alumni from the school’s theatre program to fill out the bill.
Harwood Union High School prides itself on its cultural outreach, demonstrated by its multiple opportunities for students to travel to other countries and by the school hosting exchange students. This year, six exchange students are studying at Harwood, each from a different country.
Friday’s resignation of Warren representative Jonathan Young from the Harwood Unified Union School District School Board now brings to 9 the number of seats that will be decided in the March 3 Town Meeting Day election.
Home to its own mountains and surrounded by others, the Mad River Valley is full of opportunities to ski and snowboard. Like any other sport, skiing and riding carry risks of severe injuries, and Crossett Brook Middle Schoolers heard from advocates for snow-sport safety at a recent school assembly.
Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas led the ceremony in the House chamber on Jan. 12 where fifth-grader Roslyn Fortin of Highgate Elementary School and six other fifth-graders from across the state were sworn in as the state’s first Kid Governor and cabinet members.
When voters in the Harwood Unified Union School District go to the polls on Town Meeting Day this March 3, eight seats on the 14-member Harwood school board will be on the ballot.
Fundraising efforts for the Harwood Auditorium Revitalization Project are gaining steam with the latest benefit concert featuring Reid Parsons and The Glam Cowboys at The Big Picture on Jan. 17.
The PTO groups at Brookside Primary School and Crossett Brook Middle School have launched ticket sales for their annual major fundraiser, the February Calendar Raffle.
BARRE — What it will look like, where it will be, and what it might cost are all open questions, but plans to address the facility shortcomings of the Central Vermont Career Center are in the works, and a proposal could be back on the ballot in the district’s 18 towns come November.
How does the passage of time affect identity? Harwood students running the next Socrates Café on Jan. 8 will ask just that question. The community is invited to the Harwood library, 5:30-7 p.m.
For the second time in two months, Fayston is in need of a new member to join the Harwood Unified Union School District School Board.
Harwood alumni will present an evening of comedy and music at Zenbarn on Dec. 28 to support the Harwood Auditorium Revitalization Project.
Community objections led a student club to postpone showing a documentary film at Harwood Union High School last month. Plans to show the documentary, “The Encampments,” focusing on U.S. college student protests of the Israel-Palestine conflict, were shelved shortly after the event was announced.
The School District Redistricting Task Force held its final meeting on Thursday. Since August, the group has been working to design no more than three maps of school district boundaries that attempt to achieve scale and efficiency across Vermont’s 119 school districts and 52 supervisory unions.
Middle school actors, singers, and crew are working hard in preparation to present “Mean Girls, Jr.” Friday and Sunday, Dec. 5 and 7, on the Harwood stage.
When the state panel charged with reconfiguring Vermont’s school districts met this week, Harwood’s school board chair was among the many people who offered public comments critical of the state’s plan.
The majority of Vermont school redistricting task force members endorsed a proposal on Monday that would incentivize voluntary mergers of the state’s 119 school districts. Most of the committee also opposed a new school district map based around centers for career and technical education.
BARRE — Hours after Thursday’s belated ballot count revealed voters in the 18-town district had rejected the $149 million bond proposal, members of the Central Vermont Career Center School District Board who serve on the facilities committee huddled with administrators to discuss if, how and when to respond.
PUBLIC NOTICES
Here are upcoming meetings from the Central Vermont Career Center School District with agenda and Zoom links included.
The Harwood Unified Union School District (HUUSD) will hold its annual meeting on Monday, March 2 and vote on articles by Australian ballot on Tuesday, March 3.
Here are upcoming meetings from the Central Vermont Career Center School District with agenda and Zoom links included.
From the HUUSD
The Harwood Unified Union School District (HUUSD) Board is seeking to fill one vacant seat representing the Town of Warren as a result of the resignation of Jonathan Young.
The Harwood Unified Union School District (HUUSD) Board is seeking to fill one vacant seat representing the Town of Fayston.
The HUUSD asks for parents of young children to contact their elementary schools to help with enrollment planning.
The HUUSD School Board has developed a community survey on the implications of Act 73 in order to give our input to the legislative Task Force which is currently working on mapping out new school districts for Vermont schools.
To the Community: Across Vermont, many school districts are facing the same challenge we see in the Harwood Unified Union School District: aging facilities, limited funding, and the need for careful, community-based planning.
We want to give our district’s communities an update on what we know and what we don’t know about the future of our schools, in light of the recently passed Act 73, the governor’s education reform bill.
Local control matters. This bill would make deep cuts in funding for our schools while shifting decision-making to a regional board that does not adequately represent our communities.
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.
Nine positions on the 14-member Harwood Unified Union School District School Board will be on upcoming election ballots across the six-town district, and only five candidates have stepped forward so far.