Author: Mike Grundmann
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Mike Grundmann, contributor
An artist’s head-spinning moves
“It showed me, like, unconditional happiness. That’s my message with it. Screw everything else. Have fun. Love what you do.”
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Cigar box + 3 strings = guitar
He demonstrates a “power chord: Barre-chord any fret. [This one] is a fifth. That’s how I tune most of them. You can play pretty much any songs from the ’60s.”
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Church, meet creation, head on
“When a storm cuts loose, dropping hail in middle of a sermon, that changes the experience of worship,” Zimmerman says. For one thing, “The roof is not entirely leakproof.”
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Bereft bats rebound in rehab
An endangered, half-grown tricolor bat is the size of a gummy bear
Keezletown farmer who twice cheated death keeps going at 87
“She said, ‘Well, you got hit by a train.’ I said, ‘Well, that sounds kinda bad.’ “
An Arms Race in Cross Keys
Vern Huffman stopped at a Sheetz. “I was getting gas and it was going all over the ground.” Turns out a rodent had chewed open the fuel line.
With state grant funding, HPD provides increased security for city’s Jewish & Muslim congregations
Passing the parking lot of Beth El Congregation in Harrisonburg, when you see a city police car parked in the closest spot to the street, it’s not a random occurrence. It’s for maximum visibility as part of a state-funded program to tighten security at the city’s Jewish and Islamic places of worship – a response to dangers posed by religious hatred nationwide and globally, especially since the Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis by Hamas and Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza.
