Make a Difference in Your Community!
The Lake Region Union Elementary Middle School District is seeking community members to fill school board vacancies. Following the LRUEMSD Annual Meeting, several seats remain unfilled, and community participation is essential to ensure strong representation for each town.
Open Seats Available In:
- Albany
- Westmore
- Orleans
These positions play an important role in supporting our schools, students, and community.
WHY SERVE?
- Help shape the future of local education
- Represent your town’s voice in decision-making
- Support students, staff, and families
- Be part of meaningful community impact
WHO CAN APPLY?
- Residents of Albany, Westmore, or Orleans
- Individuals interested in education and community service
- No prior board experience required
If you’re interested in serving or want more information, please reach out to Orleans Central Supervisory Union (802) 525-1204 or email Lisa Worden, lworden@ocsu.org.
Orleans Central Supervisory Union's Long-term Planning Committee's "Listening Sessions"
The Committee seeks the public's input on a proposed renovation of Lake Region High School and the construction of a new regional elementary and middle school. More broadly, these sessions are an opportunity for the community to collaboratively address the need to provide an excellent education at an affordable cost.
This week:
Wednesday, April 8 - Barton Academy & Graded School
Thursday, April 9 - Lake Union Region High School
All sessions start at 6:00pm.
Upcoming:
April 16 Albany Community School
April 29 Irasburg Village School
April 30 Virtual session - https://meet.google.com/sha-husi-qth
May 7 Town of Westmore – Fellowship Hall
Sessions are open to all. After a brief introduction, a moderator will guide the conversation. There is no set agenda.
For more information on the proposal and the Committee's work to date please see the Long-Term Planning section of the OCSU website: https://www.ocsu.org/o/ocsu/page/long-term-planning
Make a Difference in Your Community!
The Lake Region Union Elementary Middle School District is seeking community members to fill school board vacancies. Following the LRUEMSD Annual Meeting, several seats remain unfilled, and community participation is essential to ensure strong representation for each town.
Open Seats Available In:
- Albany
- Westmore
- Orleans
These positions play an important role in supporting our schools, students, and community.
WHY SERVE?
- Help shape the future of local education
- Represent your town’s voice in decision-making
- Support students, staff, and families
- Be part of meaningful community impact
WHO CAN APPLY?
- Residents of Albany, Westmore, or Orleans
- Individuals interested in education and community service
- No prior board experience required
If you’re interested in serving or want more information, please reach out to Orleans Central Supervisory Union (802) 525-1204 or email Lisa Worden, lworden@ocsu.org.
A reminder that the next OCSU PTCA meeting is March 24, 2026, at 6pm Lake Region Union High School. Here is the full agenda:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zlPETCln_4FNPjnUD79HFaZTD-wXr29qsoWhC-4DOEA/edit?usp=sharing
This meeting is immediately following the Lake Region PTCA meeting at 5pm. People are welcome to attend either or both. We hope to see folks there!
Call for Health & Wellness Vendors!
Are you a health or wellness professional interested in connecting with our community? Join us for a day dedicated to promoting healthy living and well-being!
LR Presents Modern Band Unplugged
Barton, VT - the Lake Region Union High School Music Department presents “Modern Band Unplugged” on Sunday, March 29th at 3pm in the LR Cafeteria. A free Community Souper lunch will be served, starting at 1:30 PM. We will have acoustic duos, trios and solos performing covers and original songs. Please come and join us to listen to some great music! This concert is completely student-led, with students creating the set list, rehearsing and arranging pieces outside of class, selling refreshments, setting up equipment, running a silent auction, and so much more. This will be a great learning experience for our students and a chance to fundraise money for our lesson scholarship fund and spring workshops. In order to fundraise the money for lessons we are going to sell beverages, baked goods, popcorn and more! We are also asking for a suggested donation of $5. For further information feel free to contact Sara Doncaster at (802) 754-2500-219 or email sdoncaster@ocsu.org. We are so excited to present this student-produced concert and we really hope to see you there! - by Abigail Wheeler, LR Band Manager. Cover art by LR Senior Riley Downs
The LR PTCA will be meeting Tuesday, March 24th at 5:00 in the Student Resource Room. Families will have an opportunity to review the Comprehensive Needs Assessment and provide feedback on the Continuous Improvement Plan. We will also be planning an event to be held in May.
The OCSU PTCA will meet at 6:00 directly after the LR PTCA meeting.
https://www.ocsu.org/o/ocsu/page/long-term-planning
https://www.ocsu.org/article/2765487
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NZjKXy5FtwTs0dsVY3L14ky0g9T4LLiPjFRMbKZg23U/edit?usp=sharing
Just a reminder that there is a winter celebration today (Saturday, March 7) from 1-3pm at Lake Region UHS. Based on the weather, some activities will transition inside or change, but the event is still occurring. We hope to see everyone there!
The Lake Region Union Elementary Middle School Board would like to make a few announcements.
ANNUAL MEETINGS: The LRUEMSD Annual School Board Meeting will be on March 9th at Lake Region High School at 6 PM. You can grab a school report at your Town Clerk’s office, town library or on Town Meeting Day for more details. A big change this year has been our move to a sister-school model, and the feedback so far on that change has been mostly positive.
The Lake Region Union High School Annual School Board Meeting will be March 18, also at 6 PM at the high school.
SEATS: The Elementary-Middle School Board has eight elementary-middle school seats that will be up for election on March 9th, so if you or anyone that you know might be interested in joining a school board, there are opportunities available. Four of those seats have incumbents still willing to serve, but we've got vacant seats that need to be filled in Albany, Barton, Orleans and Westmore.
If you might be interested in running, come on out to the March 9th meeting - or if you can't make it, you can also try asking someone else to go and nominate you. Serving on this board is a time commitment of approximately two Monday evenings a month, either in-person or virtually, plus homework time and any meetings for committees that you join. If you're considering this and have questions about what it's like, current board members would be happy to chat with you!
PUBLIC MEETINGS: We’d also like to flag up a couple of big decisions that could come before the voters in the next year.
As our school buildings continue to age, we've been talking about going to the voters for a bond vote to finance building a new elementary-middle school building on the Lake Region High School property. You can read more about this in the Long Term Planning Committee report inside your town report! We'll be scheduling meetings to share information and get your feedback soon, so keep your eyes out for those.
We're also exploring merging the high school and elementary-middle school boards into a single board, with a single budget and single annual meeting. This is a decision that can only be made by voters. We'll also be having public forums to get input on this idea in the coming months.
ACT 73: There are also conversations happening in Montpelier about redistricting on a state-wide level, which could really shape the future of our schools. We're doing our best as a board to respond proactively to Act 73. However, like there was with Act 46, there's going to be a lot that we can't control at this level. So if you're interested in education in Vermont, keep following Act 73 and sharing your thoughts with our representatives in Montpelier.