Group calls for accessibility upgrades to school playgrounds and communications
A group advocating for improvements to the city’s special education programs asked the school board for continued training and support for school personnel, physical accessibility upgrades to classrooms and playgrounds, and making school communications more accessible for those with disabilities.
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Student’s arrest on threat charges adds to a tense time for schools
Parents of city school students were already on edge about safety issues and threats of violence before Monday’s closure of the high schools. Police investigated several threats the previous week.
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Second Spring
The perfection, the absolute perfection of a golden September day in the Friendly City.
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Despite flood of new housing approvals, actual construction has slowed to a trickle in city
Of the 2,886 residential units the city council have approved as part of new developments since January 2021, 55 units are under construction and just 25 have been completed.
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Foodie Q&A: Paul Somers of The Golden Pony
This month Gorman sat down with Paul Somers to hear about how he went from bar manager to owner of The Golden Pony. More than just a restaurant, The Pony is a music venue, bar, nightclub, and home to Outsiders everywhere.
Seven more books banned from Rockingham Co. schools
The Rockingham County School Board voted Monday to permanently ban seven books from its library shelves, despite five of them being recommended by the district’s Content Review Committee to be kept in schools.
Everyday Losses
They tore down the Virginia Theater and put in a parking lot. But you can still see, she tells me, in the brick buildings downtown, the outlines of former architecture, the shadowy shapes of windows that will never open again.
Latest draft of school worker collective bargaining proposal seeks to address selection of negotiators
An updated proposal to allow collective bargaining among Harrisonburg teachers and staff addresses how school district employees would select their representatives to negotiate on their behalf, according to the new draft Superintendent Michael Richards unveiled Tuesday.
JMU prof’s book on bookshops makes NYT bestseller list
First there was the capacity crowd at Parentheses Books for the launch of local author Evan Friss’s new book, “The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore.” Then, within a week of its release, the New York Times reported that sales had propelled it to the top ten bestselling nonfiction titles.
