Tag: Mr. J’s

January 13, 2023

To help restaurants and the environment, some owners urge patrons to dine in, not take out

By Kevin Gorman, contributor

While running a local restaurant has never been easy, the last few years have tested Harrisonburg’s restaurants — with a pandemic that kept people out of their dining rooms followed by difficulties in finding and keeping employees and then rising food costs.

Stories of hope, gratitude, tributes, sustainability and homelessness in Hburg dominated in 2019

By hburgcitizen

The waning days of the year offer an opportunity for reflection — a quick check of what happened in the previous 12 months and how the community changed for better or worse. Of all the stories The Citizen published in 2019, these were the most shared, read and buzzed-about of the year.