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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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Story by Chris Graham A Japanese company that has been making stocks, bouillons and natural meat flavorings in Harrisonburg since 1989 announced today that it is investing $18 million to expand its local operations.
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Story by Chris Graham The Harrisonburg television market is starting to get crowded. “This is a big step forward for us,” said Tracey Jones, the general manager of the Harrisonburg-based WHSV-TV3 and a regional vice president for the Atlanta-based Gray Television, which announced earlier this month that it is adding a Fox affiliate to the…
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It has been more than three years since Jimmy Jackson was the pitching coach for the JMU Baseball team.
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A portion of Route 828 (Cattle Scales Road) in Augusta County will close to through traffic from Monday, July 13, to Thursday, July 23.
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