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Heading into winter, Navigation Center offers ‘huge blessing’ for those facing housing insecurity
The city’s nearly one-year-old Navigation Center, which is aimed at helping those struggling with housing, sits at the end of a long driveway off North Main Street. Its exterior is lined with potted plants that offer a splash of color to the white building. Inside, chairs line the walls to seat those waiting to check in, and a common room offers those seeking daytime or overnight services a place to sit and socialize. In a separate part of the building, the sleeping area holds neat rows of beds, each with a storage locker, bedside table and a small closet.
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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 …
Virginia Poets to Lift Words Off the Page
Even when the words in Nursery Rhymes in Black remain on the page and I read them silently, they are something to be reckoned with.
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.”
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.
