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Community Perspective: The Christmas Eel
A contributed perspectives piece by Anna Rose Geary
I doubt that my grandmother, Nonna Teresa, ever heard the adage “Cleanliness is next to godliness,” but if she did, she would not have believed it. God and a clean house had nothing to do with each other.
Statewide environmental news roundup – December 2021
A Breeze reporter highlighted JMU’s plans to install a 420 MW solar system on campus. Another reporter for the JMU student paper critiqued JMU’s sustainability practices, arguing that “installing a few solar panels … just isn’t cutting it….”
Community Perspective: Christmas
A contributed perspectives piece by Joe Laughland
In 1952, we got a TV. A fancy polished wood cabinet with double doors that opened to a gray oval screen with a dial for selecting channels and a knob to turn it on.
Community Perspective: Revised Revision of Carols, 2021
A community perspectives piece by Tom Arthur
Retired JMU acting teacher, Tom Arthur, offers tongue-in-cheek carols for challenging times.
Harrisonburg nonprofit looking to expand solar’s reach across Virginia
A Harrisonburg nonprofit wants to expand its efforts to make rooftop solar systems affordable to low-income homebuyers across Virginia.
BRCC faculty adjust to students’ changing needs, challenges amid the pandemic
Dave Urso, a dean of academic affairs at Blue Ridge Community College, came to the school 16 years ago because it was an open admissions institution that sought to meet students where they were. But with the pandemic interrupting new students’ last couple years of high school, the college has had to adjust in myriad ways to keep up with those students’ needs.
Snow goose, Ross’s goose make Rockingham debuts for annual bird census
The Central Shenandoah Valley won’t be having snow for Christmas, but it might be hosting a pair of snow geese and a Ross’s goose, natives of the arctic.
Although slightly remote, new charging station offers glimpse of off-the-grid future
Harrisonburg’s first off-the-grid vehicle charging station is a little out of the way — but a sunny preview of what’s to come, environmentalists say.