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City schools seek to supercharge literacy curriculum
Beginning the 2024-25 school year, Harrisonburg City Public Schools will use a science-based approach to improve students’ literacy with the help of teachers, families and reading specialists.
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A half-dozen temporarily banned books return to circulation in Rockingham Co. Schools
The Rockingham County School Board returned six more books to library and classroom shelves following their temporary removal earlier this year — but not without dissent from the board member who compiled the list of books to review.
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When a cat gets stuck / in your neighborhood / who you gonna call?
Ah, the good old days, when firefighters would rescue cats in trees. Wait, they still do.
A year after their approval, what’s the verdict on speed cameras?
Since the implementation of two speed cameras in the East Market Street construction zone, between 3,000 and 7,000 speeding tickets have been issued each month from September 2023 to February 2024, according to a speed camera update presented at the April 23 Harrisonburg City Council. People in Harrisonburg have conflicting opinions about the cameras, which will be in place for the three years that the stretch of road over I-81 will be under construction.
A Dead Sweet Perfume
“Why must we always use only our sight, and never our smell or taste to study a city?” the poet Federico García Lorca wondered. If you live in the Friendly City, you are familiar with the smell—a thick, rank odor that sometimes descends on our streets, especially after rain.
City seeks to put safe streets effort into motion
In an effort to improve Harrisonburg’s road safety, the Public Works Department hopes to assess its roads, pedestrian and bike ways, as well as school routes, as part of a $750,000 initiative, which would include federal grant money.
Will Harrisonburg businesses support Friendly City Solar? HEC is asking.
The Harrisonburg Electric Commission is surveying about 850 commercial customers to find out how many would be interested in purchasing clean energy through the Friendly City Solar program.
School district’s review of books is underway — but will be done largely out of the public eye
As the Rockingham County school district reviews the 57 books the school board barred from libraries and classrooms in January, the process is expected to stretch throughout the summer and will be completed largely out of the public eye.
