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While talking with student voters, 26th District candidates differ on environmental, union issues
fered similar philosophies about parents’ involvement in their children’s education but disagreed over a law regarding union dues as well as over government’s role in spurring environmental changes.
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Community leaders seek broad input to address central Valley’s key workforce concerns
Business leaders, nonprofit leaders and other community leaders from Harrisonburg and Rockingham County are already talking about ways to address transportation, affordable housing and childcare hurdles in the central Shenandoah Valley.
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While surge of need recedes from 2020, Blue Ridge food bank remains on alert
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank has almost returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to the organization’s CEO.
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Facing substitute teacher shortage, HCPS central office staff roll up their sleeves
Jeremy Aldrich is no stranger to working as a teacher, but it has been a few years since he made the move to the central office where he now serves as Harrisonburg’s director of teaching and learning.
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City’s greenhouse gases dropped, but council wants specific targets to cut future emissions
Harrisonburg’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped nearly 9% over a three-year period, according to a new city report, and now the council wants its environmental committee to review ways to reduce pollutants — such as with more trees — and set targets to further cut those emissions.
Delegate candidates find agreement on helping those with disabilities
Area candidates for the House of Delegates agreed that Virginia needs to increase funding to help those with developmental disabilities, including for housing subsidies, Medicaid waivers and general services and care. The challenge, they said at a virtual forum Monday, is finding funding and how best to prioritize it.
Long-awaited trail soon to become reality
A long-awaited trail system connecting multiple schools and parks in Harrisonburg is finally under construction – the end result of a campaign that began in 2015.
The future is as murky as the past for the house that wasn’t Thomas Harrison’s
Nearly three years after archeologists discovered the Thomas Harrison House wasn’t actually the city founder’s home, officials still don’t know what to do with Harrisonburg’s oldest structure.
