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Rockingham County schools hire lawyer who’s suing Harrisonburg school board. And both boards share oversight of Massanutten Technical Center. Is there a conflict of interest?
Following the Rockingham County School Board’s firing of its longtime attorneys in a closed-door meeting last Monday, Harrisonburg City School Board members have called for an emergency board meeting of the Massanutten Technical Center on April 1 to discuss potential conflict of interest issues concerning the Rockingham County board’s new attorney.
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Spring arrives in the Valley with multiple wildfires
The first full day of spring in Rockingham County arrived with beauty, warmth, wind, and wildfires.
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Natural Light
Let’s go east up the hill today, then north along Jackson Street, on this keen, sharp-edged morning, when it feels good to climb up through the alleys dotted with azure speedwell.
Community Perspective: An open letter to Virginia Senator Tim Kaine
A contributed perspectives piece by Holly Herr Stravers
Proposed new school start times get scrapped … for now
The Harrisonburg City School Board voted unanimously to ditch proposed new start times for the city’s school district after weeks of deliberation and data collection revealed what board member Kaylene Siegle called “a contrast between the science and what the community and students want.”
Whether it’s science or not, practitioners of water witching swear by its seeking powers
Some swear a forked branch from a peach tree is best. Others cut a coat hanger in half. Still others use bronze. Water witching is holding sticks or rods in front of you while you walk, hoping they’ll dip or cross when you’ve hit a patch of groundwater ideal for a well.
Del. Wilt’s ‘roadkill bill’ is poised to clean up confusion in the law (and roads)
Before “the roadkill bill” that is awaiting Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s signature, if a person hit a deer while driving, only that person could take the deer and only during deer hunting season.
In the Margin of the Margin
Public space is a border zone, made for everyone and no one.
