Debra Freeman to offer perspectives on homelessness at Lunch & Learn event
I wrote last week about how Debra Freeman, who headed up the local WARM homeless shelter for several years, was herself homeless for six months in 2024.
I wrote last week about how Debra Freeman, who headed up the local WARM homeless shelter for several years, was herself homeless for six months in 2024.
Tell you what, if Lorie Jean Akanbi, the first Black female vice mayor of Waynesboro, doesn’t have room under the local Democratic Party tent, well, there’s a reason Democrats haven’t won the congressional seat out this way in 36 years.
A 9-year-old William Perry Elementary School student took a BB gun to school on Friday; we know because a classmate reported this to a teacher.
A Harrisonburg teen has been charged with a misdemeanor in connection with the bomb threat directed at Westwood Hills Elementary School in Waynesboro.
There’s a fresh construction fraud case headed to the local court docket, on top of the case involving a well-promoted local realtor, Amy Argenbright, who is set for a two-day jury trial next month in Augusta County.
Here we go, with Augusta County Sheriff Donald Smith throwing one of his Black cops under the bus again.
The Ben Cline campaign put out a release on Tuesday claiming that a Harrisonburg Rotary Club debate with Democratic challenger Beth Macy on the schedule for Oct. 5 was called off due to something having to do with Macy.
The Ben Cline campaign comes across like it’s bragging about how its guy got an A+ rating and endorsement for his re-election from the NRA.

Election Day for our 2026 midterms, and local races in Harrisonburg, Staunton and Waynesboro, among other localities in Virginia, is Tuesday, Nov. 3, but early voting begins this coming Friday, Sept. 18.
Issues involving proposed data centers are, for the most part, local issues, but Beth Macy, running for Congress representing the Valley, thinks the feds can do more to back local residents who don’t want these AI-enabling monstrosities in their backyards.
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