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Decade-long effort to become a ‘two-high-school town’ comes to fruition
The cafeteria is the heart of the new Rocktown High School, with the academic, arts, STEM, and athletic wings extending off it. One of the cafeteria’s walls is a large window overlooking the patio with more seating outside. In the middle of the cafeteria, a wide staircase ascends to the doors of the learning commons—a library with study rooms.
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Saturday’s new Beer Fest looks to carry on Rocktown’s spirit
After the Rocktown Beer and Music Festival announced its event in 2023 would be its last, two downtown businesses paired up to inherit that festival’s legacy.
Redbud
Look at this row of redbuds! Stunning—the clusters of violet-pink flowers blooming right on the branches, bursting from the bark. The word redbud fully describes the blossoming tree, a single color devoid of green: the special austerity, the purity of the redbud.
East Market cameras net 28,000 tickets while driving speeds down in work zone
Since last summer’s installation of speed cameras in the 25-mph work zone on East Market Street over I-81, more than 28,000 citations have gone out to drivers, city officials confirmed Tuesday.
Community Perspective: We have the power to end animal abuse
A contributed perspectives piece by Noelle Tagliarini Almost every day, I witness innocent, suffering animals crammed into trucks and carried to the slaughterhouse via South High Street in a manner that is both torturous and heartbreaking. These animals endure immense suffering, confined in tight spaces without room to move or breathe comfortably. Watching this scene …
A pair of dads are preparing for city school board race
Two potential candidates for the Harrisonburg School Board have emerged to run in this year’s elections in which three seats are on the ballot.
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.
