Author: Bridget Manley
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Laura Dent, the city’s vice mayor, wants another term to keep working on climate and housing issues
In 2020, community activist Laura Dent decided to run for city council after years of campaigning for other Democrats in Harrisonburg. Much of her platform was focused on climate initiatives and affordable housing, and she’s focused a lot of her energy on those issues during the last four years as she served on the council.
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.
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.
Rocktown HS is about to open — here’s a sneak peek at what awaits students
In these last days before Rocktown High School officially opens to students, the school’s teachers and staff are putting the finishing touches on classrooms and preparing for the first day of school.
Before he was a VP candidate, Walz ‘brought everything to life’ in the classroom for one Hburg resident
In fall 1992, 14-year-old Katie Harvey began high school in the city of Alliance, Nebraska, which had 9,765 people at the time, is mostly known for “Carhenge” — a replica of Stonehenge made entirely of automobiles and is the Box Butte County seat in the state’s northwestern panhandle.
‘Very fired up’ local Democrats catch wave of national energy as Landrieu comes to town
With a big-name national Democrat in town, the theme at the Harrisonburg and Rockingham County Democratic Party headquarters on Wednesday was one of enthusiasm and buzz.