
Our Community Place to host 10th annual Summer Lawn Jam
Our Community Place hosts its 10th annual Summer Lawn Jam Saturday, June 29, 2013 from noon ‘til dark at 17 E. Johnson Street in Harrisonburg – across from the Little Grill Collective.

Our Community Place hosts its 10th annual Summer Lawn Jam Saturday, June 29, 2013 from noon ‘til dark at 17 E. Johnson Street in Harrisonburg – across from the Little Grill Collective.

A three-run fourth was all the New Market Rebels needed in a frustrating 3-0 loss for the Waynesboro Generals Saturday night.

The following is a list of highway work that might affect traffic in the Staunton VDOT transportation district during the coming weeks.

Starter Tyler Fox and three relievers combined to limited Covington to two hits, and the Waynesboro Generals won on the road, 4-0, Friday night.

James Reeves struck out nine in a solid outing on the mound, and the Staunton Braves rode his effort to a 7-3 win over the Waynesboro Generals on Thursday.

Whitney Meyerhoeffer, Volunteer Coordinator with Southern Care, spoke to 22 ERSC members and 3 volunteers on June 12 about the “Benefits of Hospice Volunteers.”

State Sens. Ralph Northam and Mark Herring will complete the Democratic Party ticket for the 2013 state elections. Northam, D-Norfolk, defeated Aneesh Chopra for the lieutenant governor nomination, with 54.3 percent of the more than 140,000 votes cast. Herring, D-Leesburg, won a tighter battle with former federal prosecutor Justin Fairfax for the attorney general nomination, with 51.6 percent of the votes going to Herring.

National Small Business Week comes to the Valley June 17-21 with a series of workshops being offered by the Small Business Development Center (SBDC). Celebrate Small Business! will offer five workshops on five days in five locations from Luray to Harrisonburg to Lexington. All the workshops are free to the business community.

Being the cartoonist for King Features’ Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comic strip has been the greatest joy of John Rose’s professional career. Rose, who will sign copies of his book The Bodacious Best of Snuffy Smith at Bookworks in Downtown Staunton on Saturday from 3-5 p.m., always wanted to be a cartoonist. He started drawing on his parents’ living room walls and continued throughout his school years in the margins of his test papers (hoping for extra credit).

Ophelia Addai Boateng, James Madison University Senior majoring in Public Health Education, will be spending the next eight weeks as an intern with the Chronic Disease Self-Managment Education Program.
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