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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s time for the First Fridays Art Walk this Friday in Downtown Harrisonburg. The art walk runs from 5-7 p.m., and featuers a star-studded lineup again this month.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Retired Harrisonburg businessman Bill Ney confirmed today that he is running for the open city-treasurer job. Ney said today that he will seek the endorsement of the Harrisonburg Democratic Committee. Two other candidates have expressed their interest in the treasurer job – Republican Penny Paul Imeson and independent Jeff Shafer….
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Northern Virginia Democratic legislator Steve Shannon will be in Harrisonburg for a fund-raiser for a pair of Harrisonburg City Council Democratic candidates Friday evening. Shannon, who is exploring a bid for the 2009 Democratic Party attorney-general nomination, will be at Blue Nile Cafe, 181 N. Main St., Harrisonburg, at the…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance and the city government are hosting a public-information meeting regarding the Harrisonburg Downtown Streetscape Project on Thursday from 4-8 p.m. at the Massanutten Regional Library. The meeting will be held open-house style. Members of the public are invited to attend to learn more about The Next Step…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] More than two dozen venues in Downtown Harrisonburg will bring the streets alive Friday evening during the Spring Museum and Gallery Walk. The 4-8 p.m. event will highlight artwork, performances, music and fine crafts in The Friendly City. Venues with special events on the schedule include: – An Altered Books…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] OK, so they have a bigger building – a much, much bigger building. But the fanfare over the formal opening of the new Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Harrisonburg Regional Laboratory and Office is about more than additional space. “There have been a lot of concerns that people…
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Item by Jim Bishop An exhibit of recent blown glass vessels by Harrisonburg native Ryan Mellinger, currently of Seattle, Wash., will be on display in the public art gallery at Eastern Mennonite University through Dec. 7.
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Story by Jim Bishop Elwood E. Yoder of Harrisonburg can’t quite believe what he had in his hands – a rare book printed in 1539 in Strasbourg, Germany. Not only that, but the thick tome was printed on the very press that is featured in Yoder’s novel, Margaret’s Print Shop, published in 2005 by Herald…
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Item by Chris Graham Author and educator Chris Mercogliano will speak at the Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalist Church next week. Mercogliano is the author of In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids’ Inner Wildness. Mercogliano was a staff member at the Albany Free School in Albany, N.Y., for 35 years and is an advocate of noncontrolling education…
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Story by Jim Bishop The (Shenandoah) hills will be alive with the sound of (string) music as a cooperative program between Harrisonburg City Schools and Eastern Mennonite University begins this fall. The city school system is funding a strings instruction program through EMU’s Preparatory Music Program, part of the university’s music department. It will begin…
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