Nine positions on the 14-member Harwood Unified Union School District School Board will be on upcoming election ballots across the six-town district. For the January 26 filing deadline to get on the ballot, only five candidates stepped forward. Since then, however, additional candidates have emerged: a new appointee to the board in Warren who plans to run for election, and two write-in contenders for the one-year seat representing Waterbury.
With the most members on the Harwood board, Waterbury has two seats up for election in March and only one seat has a single candidate on the ballot. Pamela Eaton, who was appointed in 2025, will run for election to a full three-year term.
A second position with one year remaining on the term did not attract a candidate by the January 26 filing deadline, according to Iinterim Waterbury Town Clerk Beth Jones. Waterbury representative Dan Roscioli holds that seat and is not running for election. As of February 19, however, two candidates have announced their interest as write-ins for that seat: former board member Michael Frank and newcomer Theo Hanna.
Waterbury has four seats on the Harwood school board. Duxbury, Fayston, Moretown, Waitsfield and Warren each have two.
Moretown and Warren each will have one school board seat to fill, and no candidates filed, according to clerks in those towns last week. Warren board member Jonathan Young recently resigned from the board, and Moretown representative Ben Clark did not file to run for re-election and no candidates have stepped forward as of February 19.
The school board on February 11 filed Young’s position, appointing Macon Phillips to serve until Town Meeting Day. Phillips says he will run as a write-in candidate to continue to serve following the election.
Waitsfield has one seat on the ballot, and incumbent J Weir filed to run for re-election, according to Waitsfield Town Clerk Jennifer Peterson.
Both of Fayston’s school board seats will be on the ballot, with just one candidate seeking election. Langford Davidson, who was appointed in November to fill a vacancy, has filed to run for a full three-year seat, Town Clerk Madison Vasseur reported on Tuesday. Fayston’s other seat has no candidates, she said. That is an opening with two years remaining after board member Rebecca Baruzzi resigned in December.
Both of Duxbury's representatives to the Harwood board are up for election and have filed to run: Cindy Senning, who serves as vice chair and has been on the board since 2021 is seeking a full three-year term; Emily Dolloff, who was appointed in 2025, is running for the remaining two years on an unexpired term, according to Duxbury Town Clerk Maureen Harvey.
Any positions that remain open after the March 3 election would be filled by appointment by the school board with members serving until the March 2027 election. Candidates still may run as write-ins on Town Meeting Day.
