Category: Harrisonburg Issues
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Adagio House seeks to provide respite and support for caregivers
April Hepler has known that she wanted to be a psychotherapist since she was in middle school and had imagined creating a retreat center since she was in college. Then, when her son was born with disabilities, her professional and personal experiences intersected and led her to found the nonprofit organization Adagio House in September 2019.
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Here’s what’s behind the proposed new school times — and why some families are concerned
The Harrisonburg City School Board is considering new start and end times for schools, and the potential changes aren’t going over well with some parents.
Surveys and meeting on Monday to allow for parents, students and public to weigh in on proposed school times
Harrisonburg City Public School leaders are inviting parents, teachers, students and the public to a meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 12, at Skyline Middle School to discuss potential new start and end times in the city’s schools.
Student protest group, backed by adults, vows lengthy fight with RCPS
The Rockingham County School Board is in for a lengthy fight over its decisions to temporarily remove 57 books from school libraries and to adopt model policies regarding students’ sex and gender identities.
Massanutten Regional Library’s efforts to be dementia-friendly to be featured on public television
Since she arrived a little over a year ago, Allison Brueckner has been helping to make the Massanutten Regional Library a little more dementia-friendly. It’s involved launching memory-care programs, gatherings and even kits that can be checked out — and come fall, it’ll be featured in a segment on PBS.
Earlier elementary school hours and later middle school times among suggested changes; Rocktown High’s staff list starts coming together
It might only be the third week of 2024, but Harrisonburg City Public Schools faculty and staff are already looking ahead to the fall – and changes are on the horizon.The district is already looking ahead and moving teachers and staff to the new Rocktown High School, which is scheduled to open for the 2024-25 school year. And changes don’t stop at staffing — the School Start Times Task Force has proposed new start and end times for every school in the district by suggesting early start times for younger students and later starts for middle schoolers.
February 14, 2024
Approvals for recovery homes and Northeast Neighborhood improvements move ahead
Local mental health organization Strength In Peers can now use a house on North Main Street as an addiction recovery home after the city council on Tuesday approved the rezoning of that property to allow for boarding houses.
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