A chance meeting at a party in the late 1970s produced a friendship between two local teachers that has spilled over into their classrooms for nearly three decades.

James Madison University pedestrians will soon be walking under Harrisonburg's Main Street via a tunnel whose construction started yesterday in front of the school's historic Quadrangle.

Next Friday, your paper will be a little different as we continue a weeklong series of improvements to save newsprint by streamlining sections.