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The town of Broadway, a smidge north of Harrisonburg, challenged the U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimate and won. It was one of four towns in the U.S. to do so this year. I wrote the story for the Daily News-Record on Friday. Today, the Assocated Press picked the copy up, rewriting it for a broad [...]

I pulled past Harrisonburg’s mall today. Couple dozen people were standing, shivering outside one of its entrances. I watched from a stoplight as cops came and started ushering people away from the doors.
A bomb threat? Gas leak? Fight? Wasn’t sure. So I pulled in and started fishing for my cell phone. Gotta call the [...]

Today, through the editor’s grapevine I hear, “Kelly, we need a story on the PS threes tonight.” So I nodded, “Oh yeah, of course. Sure thing.”
Truth be told, I didn’t know what a PS threes was. We planned to talk about it, but calls came in, meetings started and other news beckoned.
Plan B: Walk over [...]

One Injured In Bridgewater Hostage Situation

By Kelly Jasper
BRIDGEWATER — Police responded to a failed homicide-suicide plot Tuesday afternoon, pressing a South Carolina man with nine felony charges after he attempted to kill the mother of his son and a Bridgewater police officer, police officials said.
The suspect surrendered after a standoff at [...]

Feedback, some by comment, some by e-mail, is evenly split down the middle. I am both a big-fat cheater and reasonable, level-headed spender, it seems we have decided.
Let me amend my last post with this: Since the social experiment began, I’ve become hyper conscious of how I spend money and $40 is all of a [...]