Community Chats
By Erik Landers, The BreezeApril 30, 2009
Harrisonburg mayor to hold May 30 summit for city to discuss sustainability, energy HARRISONBURG, Va. — Mayor Kai Degner has caught on to a new trend: using summits to promote communication in a community. Now he has called for a summit on May 30 in Harrisonburg. “The purpose is to explore many different issues related to the environment and energy,” Degner said. “The goal is to get people to meet each other and have conversations about things that interest them, possibly to form new partnerships... Read more »
Tales of a Holocaust Survivor
By Erik Landers, The BreezeApril 27, 2009
HARRISONBURG, Va. — Imagine surviving on 934 calories a week. That was the total amount of calories Jay Ipson and each member of his family received each week while living in the Kaunas ghetto in Lithuania during the Holocaust. A Big Mac and medium fries from McDonald’s alone contains 920 calories. “I can’t imagine living like that,” freshman Aaron Robinson said. “I can’t even put myself in those shoes; it’s unbelievable.” Ipson, 73, the director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum... Read more »
Pub’s License Suspended
By Erik Landers, The BreezeApril 16, 2009
HARRISONBURG, Va. — The Pub faces a 20-day suspension of its liquor license following a ruling handed down by ABC on Tuesday from a Feb. 25 hearing. “It’s just a penalty that I have to deal with,” said Bill Royer, owner of The Pub. “It has been handed down by the board, and it’s just something I have to abide by.” The hearing that took place investigated The Pub’s role in the death of Sherry Anderson, 55, on Jan. 6, when Bethany Jones, then an employee of The Pub, allegedly killed... Read more »
Elkton’s Man
By Erik Landers, The BreezeMarch 30, 2009
JMU senior chosen as town manager HARRISONBURG, Va. — Many graduating seniors entering the job market will be having to work their way from the bottom to top of their respective career field. Senior Reid Wodicka is starting at the top, and is starting before he even graduates. Wodicka will have to balance classes and his new full-time job as Elkton’s town manager until he graduates in May with a degree in public policy and administration. As town manager, Wodicka will be in charge of all of the... Read more »
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case
By Erik Landers, The BreezeMarch 26, 2009
HARRISONBURG, Va. — The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for injunction Monday by former JMU student athletes whose sports were cut from the athletic program in 2007. In 2006, JMU’s Board of Visitors voted to cut 10 sports in order to comply with Title IX and have the ratio of male-to-female athletes reflect the ratio of the student body. Title IX has three levels of compliance, of which a school has to comply with only one level. The first level is compliance with the school’s male-to-female... Read more »
Suspects Apprehended in Stabbing off Port Republic
By Erik Landers, The BreezeMarch 19, 2009
HARRISONBURG, Va. — The Harrisonburg Police Department was called to a stabbing in the parking lot of Dave’s Taverna Express at 710 Port Republic Road, where an unidentified male was stabbed multiple times just before midnight during a robbery on Saturday night. Two suspects have been arrested. The first, Michael Smith-Barrow, 26, of Franklin, W.Va., was arrested and charged with drug possession and robbery as a principle in the second degree. A second suspect in the case, Terry Harvey, 25, of... Read more »
Stabbing on Port Republic Road
By Erik Landers, The BreezeMarch 16, 2009
HARRISONBURG, Va. — The Harrisonburg Police Department was called to a stabbing in the parking lot of Dave’s Taverna Express at 710 Port Republic Road, where an unidentified male was stabbed multiple times just before midnight during a robbery on Saturday night. Two suspects have been arrested. The first, Michael Smith-Barrow, 26, of Franklin, W.Va., was arrested and charged with drug possession and robbery as a principle in the second degree. A second suspect in the case, Terry Harvey, 25, of... Read more »
Shooting near Memorial Hall
By Erik Landers, The BreezeMarch 16, 2009
HARRISONBURG, Va. — Sunday morning around 3 a.m., the Harrisonburg Police Department responded to a shooting on the 100 block of Logan Lane, located a few blocks from Memorial Hall. One unidentified male was shot as the result of what police believe was a verbal argument. The alleged shooter, Ramiro Sanchez Jr., 21, of 4099 Brenneman Church Road is wanted for malicious shooting, the use of a firearm in commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, shooting in an occupied... Read more »
Former ROTC Professor Dead at 46
By Erik Landers, The BreezeMarch 5, 2009
HARRISONBURG, Va. — Army ROTC is mourning the loss of Lt. Col. Jeffrey White, a former ROTC instructor, who died Sunday, three weeks after returning from Iraq at the age of 46. White died of a burst aorta while attending church with his family in Texas. He was in Texas visiting his wife’s family. “He was a faithful servant of God,” Lt. Col Rodney Lusher said. “He was a man of strong convictions.” White and Lusher attended the U.S. Military Academy together where they were both members... Read more »
UPDATE: Hunters Ridge Trials
By Erik Landers, The BreezeFebruary 26, 2009
HARRISONBURG, Va. — Gregory Baker, Jahmaine Faqiri and Ricky Parrish appeared in a Harrisonburg court on Thursday, the Commonwealth made a motion to join the cases of the three separate trials into one for their alleged connection to the Nov. 9 murder of Reginald “Shay” Nicholson outside of a Hunters Ridge townhouse. “We are arguing for joinder, a couple of their attorneys are arguing for severance,” Commonwealth Attorney Louis Nagy said. The hearing was necessary because Baker’s attorney... Read more »
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