Category: Rockingham County
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Calhoun requests recount in school board race; Cross gets reduction in campaign fines
The 2025 election isn’t quite over yet, as one Rockingham County school board candidate seeks a recount in a close race while another moves closer to settling some campaign-related fines.
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Intern Spotlight: Calvin’s First Year at Princeton
Jun 26, 2026
Intern Spotlight: Calvin’s First Year at Princeton
McGaheysville Elementary to get $15.6 million upgrade and expansion
The next capital project is officially in the pipeline for Rockingham County schools, as the school board approved a nearly $15.6 million contract to begin updating and expanding McGaheysville Elementary School.
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‘Temporary fix’ or investing in new schools? County board wrestles with options for Rockingham’s future
With an expected influx of new residents into Rockingham County and several schools in need of repairs and approaching capacity, school board members are feeling the squeeze.
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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 …
School board candidates spar over redistricting and their approaches to the role
In their only public forum before next week’s election, the three candidates seeking the District Three seat on the Rockingham County School Board clashed Tuesday night over how best to deal with continued population growth — such as building new schools or redistricting to ease overcrowding.
Security cameras go up in county schools
Security camera installations in Rockingham County Public Schools are almost complete, save for two final schools.
Community Perspective: Rockingham County schools have the second highest book bans in Virginia
A contributed perspectives piece by Sandra Parks October 5-11 marked the annual observance of Banned Book Week, in which we traditionally focus on the safeguards that keep America from banning books. In the past the books often featured during this week are books that have not actually been banned, but were challenged somewhere. According to …
