Senior Adeline McLeod is doing her Senior Capsule project on a flower experiment. She has put much time and effort into trying to get most of this done by March 18th. “I am doing a project on plants/flowers...

Wednesday, January 29th will kick off the 15 day celebration known as Chinese New Year. Roughly 2 billion people will take part in celebrations around the world, primarily in East Asia. The tradition has...

About 18 freshman students and 2 teachers went on this year's STEM trip to the Chesapeake Bay. They left late Saturday night and came back early Monday evening. While in the Chesapeake Bay, they went canoeing,...

Javier Calleja’s journey to the United States from Uruguay shaped who he is today. Adversity struck him from a young age while losing both his biological and step father, and working his way up to becoming...

As the school year begins, we often see many new faces in the hallway like junior Joel Friebe-Makinto who recently moved to Harrisonburg. He moved from Los Angeles because his parents are attending Eastern...

After every long day of school, senior Filipo Toelau begins his practices, training, and after all of that homework. This is the reality for the nearly 7.8 million high school student athletes who manage...

Sweet Joy's sweet history Sweet Joy’s Cakes and Desserts’ owner Naomi Joy Brazeil begins each week with 20 cake orders with each call, each online order, each in-person visit adding to that list....

The tune of Backstreet Boys floated around the women's shelter as American journalist Patricia McCormick danced with the rescued girls.  In 2004, McCormick got a tip-off about child trafficking,...

“A lot of people don't even know we exist, have existed as tribes for this long. I think part of that is a failing of the educational system, in Commonwealth, Virginia. It's something that until fairly...

The creation of ‘HHS2’ has been a major talking point for the Harrisonburg community over the past five plus years. Now, in just under a month the keys will be turned over to HHS2, Rocktown High School...

According to the Virginia Department of Education, only 2.6% of the student population of Harrisonburg High School identify as Asian American or Pacific Islander. Out of the just over 2000 students at...

Every year an award is given out to one of the best science teachers in Virginia from the Virginia Association of Science teachers. Several teachers are nominated and then the process of choosing a winner...