Choir teacher Bethany Houff conducts her students during a concert. This photo was taken pre-pandemic.

Choir teacher Bethany Houff conducts her students during a concert.

The concert and symphonic band held their final concert of the year on Thursday, June 2nd. This was the 6th concert of the year for symphonic band. The concert band started the concert off with three...

On Wednesday, June 1, the choirs performed their final concert of the year. All four choirs performed. The concert ended with "You Must Be Faithful", a song that all choirs and alumni sing together every...

Despite the cold temperatures, high winds and falling snow on Tuesday evening, the Young Activists of Harrisonburg High School (YAHHS) were not discouraged from attending the first City Council meeting...

Only in debate are there points awarded for speaking, and this weekend, sophomore Winston Jeffries and junior Harmony Wilson took second and third respectively for speaker awards at the JMU Debate Tournament....

Prom is a night that is looked forward to all year, and the weeks leading up to it are filled with hours of planning, dress shopping, tux renting and appointment making. However, for juniors and seniors...

Themed around the conventionally beautiful and the wildly outlandish, the inspiration for The Coloring Book Play literally originated from a coloring contest that took place last year to promote the 2014...

Food.Bar.Food was one of the many restaurants that participated in Taste of Downtown.

Nutella. The “hazelnut” spread made with cocoa. More like the cocoa spread made with a touch hazelnut. I have always enjoyed my sporadic run-ins with Nutella spread, however until recently when...

Many teachers fall into a habitual lull after their first few years of teaching. However, for Bethany Everidge, a personal finance and economics teacher from the Career and Technical Education Department,...

The fourth period bell rings and the previously barren hallways instantly become a mass of teenagers rushing to their buses, their after school sports, their cars, their friends, but only one student is...

There is no doubt that schools are piling the on the workload, and not only is there the expectation of schoolwork, but students often feel an increase of pressure to do several activities and succeed...

February is a month of celebrating love, black history and yearning for Spring. However for the 12 member group of all-state eligible band students, February is a month that contains a solid three weeks...

For every holiday season, chain fast food restaurants around the country sell festive shakes to go with the season. Some are great, but others not so much. Despite not being much of a fast food eater,...

High school students tend to have big ideas that are never pursued, for example, starting a successful band. However for seniors Abe Nouri and Jack Adamek, this idea has actually been met with success....

Captain Phillips was a thrilling Hollywood interpretation of the capture of Captain Richard Phillips by Somalian pirates in April 2009. The movie opens up with Phillips (played by actor Tom Hanks) going...

People wait in starving agony all through third period for the bell to ring that sends them to lunch. The bell shrills, and the cafeteria suddenly becomes full of throngs of people eagerly awaiting their...