
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.

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

Acute external otitis or otitis externa – more commonly called swimmer’s ear – is an infection that affects the outer ear canal, the section outside your eardrum. It was given the name “swimmer’s ear” because it is routinely caused by water remaining in the outer ear following swimming, which creates a moist environment that encourages bacterial growth.

The Waynesboro Generals got another solid pitching performance on the road at Aldie Wednesday night in a dominating 7-0 win over the Senators. Corey Armentrout (sophomore, Bridgewater) picked up the win with five innings of three-hit baseball. Armentrout (1-1) lowered his ERA to a miniscule 0.71 with the outing.

The Harrisonburg Campus of National College announced the graduates in the class of 2013.

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).

The “Next Great Adventure” presented by Highland County Second Wind was a Fly Fishing Workshop held Saturday, June 8th, at the Highland Public Library.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia marked the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act today with a call for Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act. Passed in 1963, the Equal Pay Act was a landmark piece of anti-discrimination legislation meant to be a first step on the path toward gender pay equality, but since its enactment, loopholes and weak remedies have watered down its effectiveness.

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

Each year, an estimated 2 million acres of America’s farms, ranches, forests, wildlife habitat, and other open spaces are fragmented into smaller parcels or lost to development, according to the President’s Annual Economic Report to Congress.
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