The Harrisonburg Citizen

A submitted perspectives piece by KC Kettler You’re on I-81, with an overturned tractor-trailer up ahead. Again. Traffic is backed up for miles. Gas, expensive as it is, is burning in the tank as you sit still. You feel your blood pressure rising as you hear one car honk after another. Your GPS says you’ll be …

A submitted perspectives piece by Kerry Abbott Who recalls when the Washington Post Travel section had an article on a weekend visit to the Shenandoah Valley? It went through the towns, one by one,  until it reached Harrisonburg and said, “Keep driving”.  The downtown had been abandoned in favor of Route 33 malls and big box stores, …

In the first weeks of a new school year — and Rockingham County’s overhauled grading policy — families are reporting increased anxiety among students, concerns over eligibility for athletics and a disproportionately high number of failing grades, a school board member said.

The industrial building on West Wolfe Street, which was most recently the Artisan Packaging facility, could find a second life as an indoor recreation and sports complex after the city council approved a proposal Tuesday evening. The council also took steps toward a more permanent ban of Flock cameras in this city, as well as initiating an effort to bring passenger rail to Harri...

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