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Circuit City To Close Remaining U.S. Stores
Local Store Opened In Harrisonburg In 1993
Circuit City became the largest retailer to fall victim to the expanding financial crisis Friday, announcing it will shut down its remaining 567 U.S. stores at the cost of 34,000 more jobs after failing to sell the business. 
 59 comments - last comment January 18, 12:38 pm
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Hail To The Chief
Inauguration Traffic Spills Into Page County, Provides Economic Boost In Slow Month
By Benjamin Weathers
Before the election even ended, Dawn Rollins knew that if her students could attend the inauguration of the 44th president of the U.
Agreement Reached In State’s Case Against Stanley Councilman
Petefish Resigns, Pledges Not To Run Again For Stanley Office
By Benjamin Weathers
LURAY — The case of Jerry Petefish came to a relatively quiet end last Wednesday, with the embattled Stanley town councilman agreeing to relinquish his seat.
3 comments - last comment January 16, 11:24 am
Second Petition To Remove Sheriff May Be Ready For Signatures This Week
Four Attorneys Review Petition To Ensure Language Will Please Court And Signers Will Understand Charges, Purpose
By Luther Johnson
Page County residents could see the second cycle of the petition to have Sheriff Danny Presgraves removed from office begin circulating this week.
11 comments - last comment January 17, 09:14 am
‘I Will Live My Life In My Chair The Same Way I Lived Life With Legs’
Community Unites Behind United Way Director Recovering From Spinal Surgery, Dealing With Paralysis
By Luther Johnson
The tree had just been put up.
4 comments - last comment January 18, 03:02 am
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Local Lions Club Donates Food To The Needy
By Ted Hayes
PENN LAIRD — Christmas returned this Monday as the McGaheysville-Massanutten chapter of Lions International distributed hundreds of pounds of boxed food to dozens of families at the Massanutten Presbyterian Church on U.
Council Sets Committes, Takes Sewer Line Bids
By Ted Hayes
ELKTON — Without waiting for its usual meeting time late in the month, the new Elkton Town Council held a special meeting last Wednesday evening to get a head start on 2009.
Jamil Hopes To Have The4 Fix For Hungry Appetites
By Ted Hayes
ELKTON — Roosters restaurant on Old Spotswood Trail just east of the Shenandoah River Bridge has closed its doors — but the location will not remain quiet.
Swimmers Split Weekend Meets
By Travis Long
HARRISONBURG — Coming off its first loss of the season Friday against Charlottesville, the Spotswood boys and girls swim teams rebounded to top Waynesboro and Broadway Saturday at Westover Pool.
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Homeless, volunteers find common ground at HARTS shelter
By Sara Prince
Harrisonburg and Rockingham Thermal Shelter is on the move. Literally. Now in its second year, HARTS continues its weekly travels from church to church providing beds and shelter during the cold winter nights. 
1 comments - last comment January 15, 01:23 pm
JMU grad finds YouTube fame with ‘Zelda’ medley
By Andrew Jenner
Chad Schwartz expected the video he posted — a string quartet arrangement of nine Legend of Zelda melodies that he performed as the encore of his JMU senior recital, spring 2006 — to languish in anonymity with the zillion other videos of pancake flipping and dancing ferrets and whatever else people have, for some reason, put on YouTube.
2 comments - last comment January 16, 03:44 am
Children, adults get a chance to learn Chinese language, culture at city school
By Sara Prince
Harrisonburg’s Chinese Language School recently started its spring semester with weekly Saturday classes. Though the school began in 2005 to give two adopted Chinese girls in the Valley a sense of their heritage, the school is now catering to a growing segment of the Harrisonburg population.
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Working The Inauguration
City Business Rents Golf Carts To National Park Service
By Heather Bowser
HARRISONBURG - Next week's presidential inauguration will be so big and involve so many people, a Harrisonburg business was called in to help.
4 comments - last comment January 18, 05:25 am
Prescription Drug Seizures Skyrocket
Increase A Sign Of Times, Officials Say
By Pete DeLea
HARRISONBURG - Prescription drug seizures and pot busts soared last year in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, according to statistics released this week by the RUSH Drug Task Force.
10 comments - last comment January 18, 10:55 am
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Second Petition To Oust Page Sheriff Nearly Ready
Organizer: Renewed Effort Planned For Next Week
By Pete DeLea
After his first petition to have Page County Sheriff Daniel Presgraves suspended from office hit a snag, a Luray real estate agent said Friday a new petition could be out on the streets as soon as Wednesday.
3 comments - last comment January 17, 10:05 pm
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A Hop, Skip And A Jump
Plains Elementary Jump-Rope Team's Last Performance Of The Season This Month
By Jenny Jones
TIMBERVILLE - Many kids like to jump rope on the playground and in gym class, but students at Plains Elementary School have taken the pastime to a whole other level.
S. River Earns Excellence Accolade
Only Area School To Receive Designation
By Jenny Jones
One local school was among those chosen to earn the 2009 Governor's Award for Educational Excellence.
Gilbert: Legal Residents Only For Federal Jobs
By Jeff Mellott
HARRISONBURG - If a proposed amendment by Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Woodstock, is approved, only job applicants who can prove they're citizens or legal U.S. residents could be hired as part of a federal stimulus program.
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The Man Who Was King
Rock Operetta Aims To Show Humanity Of MLK
By Kate Elizabeth Queram
For all the things Martin Luther King Jr. has been called - activist, visionary, hero - he was, at the end of the day, just a man. A human being like everyone else.
Habila To Speak At EMU's ‘Writer's Read'
Helon Habila, who teaches creative writing at George Mason University, will be the featured speaker at the first "Writers Read" program of the spring semester at Eastern Mennonite University.
PAL Hosts Valentine's Day Concert
Stephanie Nakasian and the Hod O'Brien Trio bring classic jazz and swing to Luray's BB&T Center for the Performing Arts with a Valentine's Day show at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 14.
Roaming Reviewer: ‘Deaf Sentence' Ponders The Literal And Figurative Ramifications Of Deafness
By Lucy Bednar
The title of David Lodge's multi-layered and absorbing new novel, "Deaf Sentence," is obviously a play on words.
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