Volunteers Get 300 Boxes Of Food Ready For MLK Day Distribution

Standing side-by-side, people of all colors, ages and genders formed a conveyor belt-like chain Sunday afternoon to fill 300 boxes of food at Hope Distributed as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Food Drive.

Virginia reported back-to-back single-day highs for COVID-19 cases over the weekend, including nearly 10,000 new cases on Sunday, according to information from the Virginia Department of Health’s online dashboard.

Rockingham County Public Schools Superintendent Oskar Scheikl plans to bring high school students back into the classroom beginning Feb. 1.

The first round of COVID-19 vaccinations for first responders in the Harrisonburg area is ongoing and scheduled to wrap up in the next few weeks.

All 10 of the nurses working for Harrisonburg City Public Schools have received the first round of the COVID-19 vaccine, Superintendent Michael Richards said, and they will receive the second round soon.

Somewhere in a large conference room, Cookie yawns and lets out a sigh.

City staff is preparing to take another look at the reduced Harrisonburg budget as more information is now available about revenue impacts stemming from the pandemic, according to City Manager Eric Campbell.

As Rockingham County recorded its single deadliest day during the pandemic, vaccinations began at Bridgewater Retirement Community Wednesday.

Each December when we compile a list of the biggest news stories of the year, it’s not often obvious which deserves top billing.

One month into the COVID-19 outbreak at Middle River Regional Jail has resulted in more than half of the jail’s population testing positive and hundreds of inmates exposed.

Friends Julie Moubray, 46, of Penn Laird, and Chris Parlette, 46, of Bridgewater, waited their turn in the parking lot of Hope Distributed’s food bank on Saturday morning in an idling blue Jeep.

Sentara RMH Medical Center emergency room doctor Mark Nesbit got into work before dawn Thursday, and the 55-year-old Harrisonburg resident had an extra task to check off before seeing patients.

Like everything else during the pandemic, finding new ways to address existing problems has required creativity, patience and most importantly, communication.

With only two weeks left, Elkton Town Council finalized the spending of its federal CARES Act funds during Monday’s meeting.

Each holiday season, Salvation Army chapters worldwide look to the red kettle campaign as a major fundraiser, but the pandemic is stirring concerns for a large projected donation shortfall.

Teachers Could Begin Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine In January

Sadie LeClair, 20, was teaching at Pleasant Valley Elementary School in Harrisonburg and studying at Blue Ridge Community College when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Small groups with parental support has been a key recently for the city of Harrisonburg Parks and Recreation as it tries to provide youth opportunities during the pandemic.

The Harrisonburg School Board laid out plans for bringing more students into the classroom at the start of the next semester at a meeting held virtually Tuesday.

While COVID-19 cases surge across the state, the number of cases in local classrooms are still relatively low. However, there are more active cases then there have been at any other time since school began.

Last month it was decided that more Rockingham County Public Schools students would head back to the classroom two days a week.

Free local COVID-19 testing will be conducted by Virginia Department of Health personnel in Verona and at James Madison University on Wednesday and at Rockingham Park at the Crossroads in Penn Laird on Friday.

COVID-19 knocked James Madison off the court for the second time since October, leading to the cancelation, or at the very least postponement, of four more December games for the Dukes.

The demand for homemade masks throughout the pandemic has added momentum to the long-established tradition of quilting in the Valley, according to local quilt supply store operators.

About 18 months ago, retired James Madison University associate professor Tom Syre set out to write a book to help those battling drug and alcohol addictions.

The recent rise in COVID-19 patients entering Sentara RMH Medical Center is within the facility’s capacity for care, according to Anthony Bruno, vice president of medical affairs for the hospital.

Senior Spencer Gallon can clearly remember when curtains closed on Turner Ashby High School’s musical production of “Hello, Dolly!” mere weeks before COVID-19 was a household name.

The first full semester of school for local colleges and universities since the pandemic began is drawing to a close, and students are going home for the holidays while officials make plans for another semester during COVID-19.

In light of the rise in COVID-19 cases across the state and the Virginia Department of Health placing almost every school division in the highest risk category, officials are having to make tough calls about the remainder of the 2020 school year.

When longtime employee Kayla Smith purchased Traditions Family Restaurant roughly two years ago, it was thriving.

DAYTON — The aroma of smoked turkey filled every inch of the Thomas House’s 10,000-square-foot restaurant, making it seem as if a Thanksgiving-scented candle had been lit hours prior.

While the majority of Eastern Mennonite School students sat in classrooms taking exams and counting down the hours until Thanksgiving break, a line of volunteers paced from the building to the parking lot Tuesday morning. Between the hands of seven National Honor Society students and school …

Cases continued on a record upward trend in Rockingham County as the number of COVID-19-related deaths of county residents was on course to outpace COVID-19-related deaths in the city, according to data from the Virginia Department of Health.

Dressed in a traditional black gown with hair neatly curled to her shoulders, senior soprano Kiara Kiah opened the annual Eastern Mennonite University orchestral gala with a delicate duet of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” with professor and baritone James Richardson. But Richardson was nowhere n…

After around 30 years, the last patients of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Free Clinic were seen by providers in downtown Harrisonburg as appointments ended on Friday.

Harrisonburg City Council voted to extend the deadline for personal property tax payments from Dec. 5 to Feb. 1 during a special meeting on Wednesday.

PENN LAIRD — Drew Miller wanted to make his students know how excited he was to see their faces after months of quarantine.

At a work session on Tuesday, the Harrisonburg School Board will have a discussion about possibly adopting a hybrid model of learning.

Organized chaos. It’s the simple, beautiful truth behind Ivan Christo’s latest project, “Empire of Excellence.”

The Rockingham County School Board met Monday and received the last COVID-19 update it will get before students in grades second through eighth head back to the classroom next week.

The City of Harrisonburg announced it has awarded 22 nonprofits $626,831 from its CARES Act funding due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

When the Rockingham County Board of Supervisors approved distributing more than $1.6 million of CARES Act funding to provide town assistance, the seven incorporated towns had until Dec. 30 to spend the funds.

Halloween falling on a Saturday normally would be cause for much celebration, especially if you’re a parent taking your kids trick-or-treating.