Have you heard of
The Citizen yet? This is a new online news source for Harrisonburg. Here's a bit more from their site...
"The Citizen is an independent source of news for the people of Harrisonburg, Virginia. Our goal is to tell the important and interesting stories that are otherwise un- or under-covered in our community. We will report aggressively and fairly on behalf of everyone who lives here, and will not place any content behind a paywall. The Citizen is funded by local advertisers and readers who support its mission."
Articles to date include:
- Hburg council candidates reveal differences over priorities, ‘unpopular’ decisions and even scooters
- Changing approach to jails can save money and improve lives, residents and activists say
- Citizen groups to ask local government to hire a ‘justice planner’
- After Planning Commission vote, updated Comprehensive Plan on the home stretch
- Council candidates try to connect with JMU students
- JMU students give job interviews to U.S. Senate, 6th Congressional District candidates
- Harrisonburg sorts through tons of plastic, paper and pent-up demand for more recycling options
- Fresh and local and all grown-up: a look at a movement with staying power
- Council candidates offer different philosophies in ways they should – and can – help immigrants
- In traveling town hall, candidates seek to appeal to JMU students – an untapped well of mid-term voters
- Wave or ripple? Voter registration numbers in Harrisonburg on an ordinary path to the mid-terms.
- Independent council candidates are running from the right and left in this fall’s election
- Hello Harrisonburg, we’re here to inform you