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In District 3 race, Lauren Mullen calls for less politics, more focus on ‘student wellbeing’
When Lauren Mullen was in high school, she found herself bored and uninterested and dropped out. In less than a year, she went back to get her degree then later became a double Duke, receiving two degrees from JMU.
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Teachers and city school staff to get 8 weeks of parental leave
The Harrisonburg City Public Schools updated its parental leave policy to provide paid leave to all employees who become new parents, including those who adopt or are fostering a child.
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JMU selects its next university president
James Madison University has announced the selection of its next President, James C. Schmidt, who has served as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.
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Dems appear to sweep city council races, but large number of provisional ballots cloud final outcome for now
A total of 15,051 votes were unofficially counted by about 9:30 p.m., but another 2,351 provisional ballots had yet to be counted and could affect the final outcomes of all races on the ballot.
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Local writer and educator’s memoir offers a glimpse into what it was like to be a ‘celebrity’ foreigner in ’80s China
Isolated in another country, two teachers found themselves living what they considered to be a “celebrity life” in a closed-off city in China.
2023 in Harrisonburg: Here’s what people were reading
Readers in 2023 really wanted to know about Harrisonburg’s new high school — and can you blame them? It seems like it’s been in the works for ages.
Community Perspective: From Madrid to Paris
A contributed perspectives piece by Anna Rose Geary: An overnight train trip offers more than chaperones on this school trip bargained for.
Nick Swayne left Harrisonburg last summer to run a college. Instead, he walked into political and legal sagas that have engulfed a community.
Nick Swayne, the former Harrisonburg School Board chair and former director of JMU X-Labs, has been embroiled in a months-long fight to save a community college in Idaho from losing accreditation after a right-wing takeover of the college’s board of trustees.
