Psychology office relocates in Harrisonburg

Chris Graham

Commonwealth Psychological Services, PLC (CPS) and CPS NeuroCare, LLC, has responded to increased requests for services adding additional staff and relocating from its former 900 square foot office on Blue Stone Hills Drive to a 3200 square foot office on Neff Avenue. Staff additions include Dr. Rowland Shank, Jr., PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist from…

Fort Defiance team does well in Envirothon

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More than 270 high school students from 45 U.S. states and nine Canadian provinces assembled July 24-29 in Sackville, Canada, to participate in North America’s largest high school environmental education competition, the 2011 Canon Envirothon. Having placed first during May’s Virginia State Envirothon competition in Mechanicsville, Fort Defiance High School moved on to the national competition,…

Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance receives accreditation

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Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance has been designated as an accredited National Main Street Program for meeting the commercial district revitalization performance standards set by the National Trust Main Street Center®. Each year, the National Trust and its partners announce the list of accredited Main Street® programs that have built strong revitalization organizations and demonstrate their ability…

Sanford D. Horn: Should the obese fatten the government budget?

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Plucking obese children from their parents is the ultimate in “nanny-statism.” Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity specialist at Children’s Hospital Boston and Lindsey Murtagh, an attorney and researcher with Harvard’s School of Public Health, want to extract obese children from their homes and away from their parents for a government intervention. Ludwig and Murtagh want…

Riane Eisler and Kimberly Otis: The debt, women and our future

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What do women really want from our President? This is a question President Obama should be asking if he wants to keep his job for another term — which hinges on the women’s vote. His campaign emphasizes the appointments of very talented women: Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, Elizabeth Warren to…