Harrisonburg High School is slated to try a new monitoring system that uses AI to recognize weapons in hopes of preventing a school shooting.
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The old municipal building will be renovated, Fire Station 4 will get a new engine and city employees will get raises as part of Harrisonburg's 2023-24 budget.
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Nick Swayne, the former Harrisonburg School Board chair and director of JMU X-Labs, has been in a months-long fight to save a community college in Idaho.
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After finding him asleep at the wheel late May 2, police arrested Harrisonburg City Council member Chris Jones and charged him with driving while intoxicated.
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City school leaders hired Tamara Mines as Rocktown High School’s first principal, and Superintendent Michael Richards and the school board welcomed her at Tuesday night’s meeting.
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Local pianist Anna Showalter will headline a May 5 free concert with music inspired by birdsongs.
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Erich Sneller, assistant director of the governor’s STEM academy and teacher at Harrisonburg High School, is up for a national teaching award.
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Incumbent state lawmakers are running for re-election in redrawn districts that will have them campaigning in different territory. And they face competition.
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Mayor Deanna Reed said the city will pause planned renovations to the Westover Park skatepark after hearing from members of the community about concerns.
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Harrisonburg educators are seeking to provide more flexibility for older teenage immigrants and refugees to navigate school — or pursue other options.
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17-year-old Calour Fields, an HHS junior, was one of two people killed in a shooting over the weekend
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With the end of another school year fast approaching, planning for this year’s S.O.A.R. Program at Westover Park is in full swing. As usual, a waiting list is already starting to form.
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The city council on Tuesday began discussing Harrisonburg’s budget, which includes a proposed real estate tax increase to cover the new high school's cost.
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Federal money is arriving just in time to replace a more than century old pipe that, earlier this week, affected people in west Harrisonburg.
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Harrisonburg teachers are in line to get a raise in the proposed budget the school board approved Tuesday. The only question is: how much?
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For his research into a mathematical concept he calls the s-derivative, Max Misterka won a large cash prize that will help fund his future studies at MIT.
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The Harrisonburg Education Association is taking steps to potentially bolster its power as a union and pursue the right to collectively bargain.
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Harrisonburg Electric Commission customers likely will see a 6% increase in the base power rate this summer. But here's why customers' bills might not go up.
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