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  • New Path - Daily News-Record
    HARRISONBURG - A bike path connecting Port Republic Road and Stone Spring Road in Harrisonburg is on the drawing board to be completed next spring, pending the help of outside funding. Named the Bluestone Trail, city officials plan to build an ...

  • York girls lead their coach closer to his state-championship dream - Daily Press
    The Trailblazers, from Penn Laird (near Harrisonburg), boast a good point guard in Carter Williams (13.6 points per game) and rebound very well. York counters with two very fast guards of its own, Raven Blow and Shannon Lewis, and a post player, 6 ...

  • Deputy Recounts 10-Year Search For Boy - Daily News-Record
    HARRISONBURG - For the past decade, the case of a missing 7-year-old boy weighed heavily on Maj. Jason Pettit's heart. Nearly 10 years ago, James Lucas went to the Page County Sheriff's Office to report his son missing. That's when Pettit, who took ...

  • Unbeaten Foe Awaits BHS
    HARRISONBURG - The Broadway High School boys' basketball team arrived in Richmond - the site of the state tournament's final four - Tuesday evening.

  • Running To Extremes
    In the absence of final state funding numbers from the General Assembly, the Rockingham County School Board prepared for the best- and worst-case budget scenarios at its meeting Tuesday night.

  • Recall At Martin's Under Way
    HARRISONBURG - Consumers are being warned that processed foods containing a certain flavor enhancer may be contaminated with salmonella.

  • Mediation On Table In Dispute
    HARRISONBURG - Harrisonburg City Council on Tuesday offered to pay a mediator to arbitrate the dispute between two animal-welfare groups seeking funding to handle stray dogs and cats.

  • Long Trip Worth It
    HARRISONBURG - In a 10-2 win over Washington & Lee on Tuesday afternoon, the Eastern Mennonite University baseball team's defense appeared to be in fine form. Just by watching it, one would think the group had been completing drills with army-like efficiency for months.

  • High Court Post Next For Mims
    HARRISONBURG - Harrisonburg native Bill Mims is poised to join Virginia's highest court.

  • Health Fair To Offer Vaccines
    HARRISONBURG - The East Rockingham Health Center, at 13737 Spotswood Trail, east of Elkton, will host a free community health fair on March 20.

  • Colts Pick Up Ex-Duke
    HARRISONBURG - Former James Madison University defensive end J.D. Skolnitsky, cut last week by the Washington Redskins, was claimed off waivers Monday by the Indianapolis Colts. "Out of the blue," Skolnitsky said Tuesday, describing Indianapolis' interest in him. The 6-foot-6, 265-pound Fairfax native said the Re

  • City Launches Search For A Superintendent
    HARRISONBURG - The Harrisonburg City School Board has begun reviewing applications for the division's superintendent position, according to Sallie Strickler, the board's chairwoman.

  • Brethren Churches Offer To Match Haiti Donations
    HARRISONBURG - Valley Churches of the Brethren are offering to match outside donations in support of a project to build shelters in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

  • Groups in Disagreement Over Animal Care - WHSV
    Dozens of people with the group Citizens for Animal Welfare attended Tuesday night's council meeting. They're concerned about what they consider to be a high number of animals euthanized by the Rockingham-Harrisonburg Society for the Prevention of ...

  • Gay Rights Supporters Meet At UVA
    Gay rights supporters are meeting at UVA Tuesday night to protest proposed Virginia legislation.

  • Fluvanna Prepares Final Budget Work Session
    Up to 15 Fluvanna County employees could lose their jobs.

  • Protected: Why consolidate now? - Augusta Free Press
    The New Dominion Magazine is distributed in Waynesboro, Staunton and Harrisonburg. We take your ideas on marketing and what you want and need to do to reach your customers and clients and make them happen. We will work with you to maximize the bang ...

  • Search for Fluvanna County Administrator Begins
    The job application is available on the county's web site. The search committee expects plenty of applications.

  • Bike Coalition and Harrisonburg City Officials Back from Trip to ... - WHSV
    Harrisonburg City officials and members of the Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition are home from a trip to Davis, California, where they were researching ways to make Harrisonburg more bike friendly. Davis is known for their bike/pedestrian trials ...

  • Police Looking for Missing UVA Graduate
    Police in New Orleans are asking for tips to help find a missing University of Virginia graduate.

  • UVA Doc Treats Patients in Haiti
    A UVA doctor spent about time aboard a Navy ship in Haiti as part of a volunteer relief effort to assist patients after the earthquake.

  • Norma N. Nair - Staunton News Leader
    She was born on May 29, 1936, in Harrisonburg and was the daughter of the late C. Galen and Eva Virginia Rimel Neff. Norma lived her entire life in the Harrisonburg area. She graduated from Harrisonburg High School and was employed at Boyd's ...

  • Harrisonburg Temple Screens Holocaust Film
    Temple Bethel in Harrisonburg will show a preview of the film "Inside Hanna's Suitcase" Sunday.

  • Harrisonburg Temple Screens Holocaust Film - NBC 29 News
    The Shenandoah Valley Holocaust Education Project is screening a new film documenting the horror that Jews and other groups faced during World War Two. Temple Bethel in Harrisonburg will show a preview of the film "Inside Hanna's Suitcase," a film ...

  • National Symphony Looking for a WV Composer (WHSV Harrisonburg)
    The National Symphony Orchestra is seeking a West Virginia composer to write a new piece of music.

  • Your 10-Day Forecast for Harrisonburg, VA (22801)
    Today: Clear & High 50°F / Low 25°F.---- Sun: Sunny & High 56°F / Low 31°F.---- Mon: Mostly Sunny & High 57°F / Low 36°F.---- Tue & Beyond....

  • New Site for Harrisonburg Tourism
    Harrisonburg Tourism has launched a new Web site hoping to bring visitors to the "Friendly City."

  • Comment on Degner To Launch Harrisonburg Times by Phil
    Where is Orson Welles when we need him? I suppose I’ll have to subscribe to NetFlix to see how all this comes out.

  • Harrisonburg Design Firm featured in International Competition - PRLog (free press release)
    PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 05, 2010 – Freegreen.com is challenging design firms to develop affordable green home designs that fit contemporary lifestyles. The single family home is the most commonly built building in America, but less than 5 ...

  • UVA Reveals New Building Plans
    The University Of Virginia took the wraps off a new building planned for the Children's Hospital.

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  • Citizens for Animal Welfare take on the RHSPCA
    Members of Citizens for Animal Welfare filled the City Council meeting over the current policies of the Rockingham-Harrisonburg SPCA (no relation to the ASPCA); an organization that seems to be...
  • Harrisonburg Residents with Un-Shoveled Sidewalks Receive Warnings
    The Harrisonburg Police Department has issued written warnings to residents that have snow-covered sidewalks. Those residents that don’t comply will be cited and face fines to the tune of $200....
  • It is Snowing Again
    I swear if it snows one more time I will boycott the weather for the rest of my life. This is completely unacceptable. Just look at this map 80 percent...