Rockingham Memorial Hospital is moving from its longtime home to an advanced new facility on the edge of town. Hospital staffers share the news and the memories they leave behind.
As James Madison University makes national headlines for the riot-inducing Springfest party, a quiet humiliation lingers beneath the surface for some JMU students.
Two male students open Club Gilty, the first on-campus nightclub at JMU. A surprising transformation of the Transitions room in Warren, the club has live music, dancing, lasers, and a fog machine.
HARRISONBURG, VA - After the recent Springfest event, students are beginning to question JMU’s image as upcoming rapper Wale is scheduled to perform at the convocation center.
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College professors come in all shapes and sizes. But for the sake of simplicity, we sorted our college educators into five categories from Cool to Overqualified.
TOMS shoes, an organization that sells stylish, comfortable, shoes, gives one pair away to a child in need for every pair purchased. On the JMU campus and around Harrisonburg, TOMS are becoming more popular for their comfort and cause.
With warm weather upon us, we decided to look for the best in dining al fresco in downtown Harrisonburg. We found five places definitely worth checking out.
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With a high-profile indie-artist and a worthy cause, JMU’s Student Ambassadors presented the 3rd Take the Pulse concert–this time to benefit developing world entrepreneurs.
Two new groups are working to bring affordable music to students, dropping conventional ideas of a student record label and using new using innovative ways to keep the music going on campus.
Photo by Allie Conroy. A professor with cerebral palsy came to sophomore engineers to build a bicycle for him. They are now constructing the vehicle, which is designed specifically for the physical limitations caused by the disease.
Long time farmer 89-year old Clarence Dellinger has been selling chemical-free veggies at Harrisonburg’s Farmer’s Market since it opened in 1979. He’s become an icon of an increasingly vital part of life in H’burg.
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I followed a student to Avalon Farm in Broadway, Virginia to learn about an agricultural internship offered by JMU.
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As “March Madness” comes to an end, students reflect on its phenomenon’s academic toll.
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JMU administration and student environmentalists are working toward a car-free campus.
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