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Community Perspective
Community Perspective: Tuesdays with Morrie play brightens Broadway and heads for Bridgewater
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Jul 10, 2026
Project Update: George’s Flowers in Roanoke is Now Under Construction!
Community Perspective: Superintendent Richards and former chair of School Board Member Emma Phillips: Your city school kids need a task force to advocate for and organize equitable basic needs support.
A contributed perspectives piece by Tamara Grant In Harrisonburg City Public Schools, 51.73% of children automatically qualify for the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), the free meal benefit. The Identified Student Percentage (ISP) of 51.73% is based on children already enrolled in Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) or other federally qualifying programs. …
Community Perspective: The missing Link to a thriving Downtown
A contributed perspectives piece by Sarah Baker-McEvilly Four years ago, I opened BMC Bakes in downtown Harrisonburg. What started in the kitchen of my first downtown apartment has grown into a storefront on Main Street, a business built with love for this town and the incredible support of our community. But like many small businesses …
Community Perspective: Observations about the Mullens/Cross/Irons Debate
A contributed perspectives piece by Margot Heffernan Our world is often framed by elitist attitudes that block reality and the very core of common sense. It’s fixed in the human condition, isn’t it – the need to blindly follow, to revere the expert-sounding voice over real-world experience; the tendency to highlight the huffish person who …
Community Perspective: You do it; I’ll just help
A contributed perspectives piece by Roger Barbee Stuck! Not in snow while driving, or while trying to solve a math problem, or in understanding confusing directions or a complex argument. No, I was not stuck in any of the usual ways of that word; I was stuck in my wheelchair between a moderately steep, gravel …
