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Council seeks to clean up recycling ordinance
The Harrisonburg City Council is updating its ordinance to direct businesses and residents to separate recyclable materials — such as cardboard, cans and certain plastics — from their trash. The city has left open the option of curbside recycling since discontinuing it in 2015 but has no plans to resume that service anytime soon.
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Rooted Market sprouts, expects continued demand for online food shopping
When farms and farmers’ markets set up online stores to stay in business at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, Tim Showalter Ehst quickly joined Local Food Drive-Thru in Staunton to sell produce from his Rockingham County farm.
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Proctoring software raises concerns among some college students
Before taking exams last semester, Sydnei Moody, a senior JMU student, paced around her apartment “paranoid” about the strength of her Wi-Fi connection. She kept her professor’s contact information beside her in case she had technology issues. Moody, who’s majoring in accounting and marketing, panned her camera around her room before holding up her ID, scrap sheets of paper, and calculator. She also held up her phone to the webcam and then moved it outside of her reach.
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Community Perspective: The Life Raft of Truth and the Ocean of Lies
A Four Part Series by C. David Pruett PART II: The Social Dilemma “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”—attributed to Mark Train On the recommendations of friends, I recently watched the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. It should be required viewing of all Americans—because …
Community Perspective: The Life Raft of Truth and the Ocean of Lies
A Four Part Series by C. David Pruett PART I: Poisoning the Noosphere In 1875, the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess coined the term “biosphere” to define the narrow zone on Earth containing life. The biosphere is concentric to and surrounds the physical Earth, the “geosphere.” A few decades later, a similar new concept, the “noosphere,” …
Igloos, take-out and space heaters: How some Hburg restaurants survived COVID winter
After relying on outdoor spaces and reduced seating to stay open during the pandemic, many local restaurants and bars didn’t hibernate during the winter, but opted to innovate.
Area nursing students pitch in with vaccinations while gaining valuable experience
As Virginia continues vaccinating groups 1a and 1b, nursing students from area schools are helping the Public Health District’s effort to deliver vaccines while also getting valuable real-world experience.
More state and federal dollars could mean more Hburg teachers and school counselors
The Harrisonburg City Public Schools district could hire additional teachers, elementary school counselors and a division-wide equity coordinator with an expected increase in state and federal funding for fiscal year 2022, according to Superintendent Michael Richards’ proposed budget he presented Tuesday.
