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Virginia Organizing is hosting an immigration forum on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Community Mennonite Church, 70 S. High St., Harrisonburg. The forum will focus on preserving immigrants’ rights with a heavy amount of attention on immigrants’ issues in the 2011 Virginia General Assembly. The forum will feature Walter Tejada, currently on the Arlington…
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The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual membership meeting and awards ceremony Thursday at the JMU Festival Conference & Student Center. During the ceremony, the Chamber honored two restaurateurs, and a local farm family that is dedicated to sustainable farming practices. 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year Aaron Ludwig, owner of Jack Brown’s Beer…
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Our Community Place in Harrisonburg has released its second fund-raising Christmas CD, just in time for the holidays. Officially debuted at the OCP Christmas concert, with record artists performing live, this latest fund-raising album, “Our Christmas Present: Volume II,” features some of the finest musical talent in the area—as well as nationally-known acts. Artists returning…
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Despite a drive to maintain community support for First Night Harrisonburg, the event’s board of directors has canceled the event for New Year’s Eve, 2011. First Night Harrisonburg’s board is the primary organizational group of the annual Downtown Harrisonburg New Years Eve community festival. After a series of attempts to recruit volunteers and long deliberation,…
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The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that copies of the 2011 Harrisonburg & Rockingham County Map are now available. “The full color street map is one of the Chamber’s most vital tools for marketing our area to visitors, new residents, and new or relocating businesses,” says Frank Tamberrino, president of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham…
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The Central Shenandoah Health District will offer free seasonal flu vaccine to everyone ages three and up, at a clinic on Tuesday, Nov. 2 at Harrisonburg High School. The clinic will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the school’s gymnasium, at 1001 Garbers Church Road in Harrisonburg. Vaccine is available on a…
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The Washington, D.C.,-based Linc Services LLC is working with Harrisonburg to complete energy-efficient improvements to the Cecil F. Gilkerson Community Activities Center. The building renovations, which began in early September and are scheduled for completion by mid-October, are projected to save the city more than $150,000 over the course of 15 years. “We’ve had a…
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The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the launch of a new Member-2-Member (M2M) program. The program encourages Chamber members to save money and help support our local economy by choosing Chamber members for their business and personal needs. Since the beginning of August, the Member-2-Member campaign has attracted more than 30 businesses…
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The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce is challenging community members to envision an ideal place where they want to live, work, and play. Over the past 13 months, a diverse group of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County residents have been working together to imagine and describe the community that we aspire to become by the year 2020….
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A seven-run fourth rallied Waynesboro from a 4-1 deficit in game two of a doubleheader at Harrisonburg and earned the Generals a split with the Turks on Monday. The split gives Waynesboro the #5 seed in the Valley League playoffs, which get going Tuesday night with the Generals traveling to Front Royal to take on…
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