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LOCAL SPORTS

  • Knights Win 14th Straight District Wrestling Title

    Turner Ashby High School coach Marshall Smiley’s warning to his wrestlers became all too real, as Waynesboro and Fort Defiance – two of three new district rivals – were breathing down the Knights’ necks. Going into the finals, one point separated WHS from Fort and TA (tied for first with 110 points).

  • Dukes Bad On Boards

    HARRISONBURG — Getting beat by 4.4 boards per game, James Madison is the worst rebounding team in the Colonial Athletic Association. The smallest Duke is the most perturbed about continually losing that battle. “Just put a body on somebody, man,” 5-foot-9 guard Humpty Hitchens said, when asked how he can contribute to the Dukes’ rebounding woes. “They call over-the-back – that’s illegal – so you don’t even got to, I don’t have to get the rebound.

SKYLINE

  • More Than A Mountain

    From my north-facing kitchen window, only the top of the peak is visible, like the tip of a huge iceberg. Massanutten Peak. When I first moved to the Valley in 1978, I lost my moorings. You see, I was raised on a grid. The streets of Long Island ran east-to-west and the avenues north-to-south.

  • Meet The Neighbors

    With an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 in the Valley, chances are your child’s teacher, your mechanic, lawyer or favorite restaurant’s owner is a refugee.

  • Guerilla Gallery To Host One-Night-Only Art Exhibition

    The Guerilla Gallery Art Show, a one-night-only exhibition by local artists, will be held from 6-9 p.m. on Feb. 3 in the Newman Ruddle Building, 2 N. Main St., Harrisonburg.

  • PAL Hosts Jazz Band

    PAL’s monthly theme for February is romance. Le Hotclub de Biglick will set the tone with their gypsy jazz at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 11 at the PAL Center for the Performing Arts, 1 E. Main St. in Luray.

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Features-Rocktown Weekly

  • Refugees like us

    More than subjects in a photograph or statistics in the population, local refugees’ stories will find the spotlight in an upcoming art show offered by The Virginia Council of Churches Refugee Resettlement Program.

  • ‘Part of their new beginning’

    At 24, Jackie Cramer is the youngest staff member at the Harrisonburg branch of the Virginia Council of Churches Refugee Resettlement Program.

  • 7 days in review

    Sunday liquor sales bill passes in Virginia House By this time next year, last-minute liquor purchases for Super Bowl parties could be possible in Virginia.

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