Author Archives: Lisa Oates

About Lisa Oates

Lisa is the creative mind behind The Harrisonburg Homes Team, providing streamlined content management, quality authorship, and graphic design for Harrisonblog. She's passionate about blogging, enjoying life, and a good cup of coffee.

Harrisonburg Will Grow 43% in Population Over a 20-Year Period

We’re big fans of interesting statistics and cool interactive web tools. Put those two together and of course we have to share it! We came across this interactive mapping tool that shows what any metro area’s population (and other stats) will be like by the year 2030. According to it,...

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Wilson Downtown Gallery: Rhoda Miller

For the past few months, we’ve enjoyed having the impressive watercolor works of Martha Mobley, Deborah Kay Nees, and Nick Terry hanging on our Wilson Downtown Gallery walls. They will soon be removed to make way for our next featured artist: Rhoda Miller of Rhodarts. Rhoda is experienced in painting,...

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10 Great Dates (That Won’t Break the Bank) in Harrisonburg

The holidays are over. You are tired and spent (financially and otherwise). What better way to hit the “refresh” button on your life than going on a date with your sweetie? Whether you’ve been together for decades or you’re planning your first date, we think this list of 10 places...

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Harrisonburg’s Newest Retail Hub Will House a Third Walmart

  If you’ve driven on the newly finished Southeast Connector (aka Stone Spring Road) in Harrisonburg lately, you’ve likely noticed a lot of construction and earth-moving happening near where the connector runs into Port Republic Road. This 105-acre piece of land has been dubbed “Stone Port,” and plans are already in...

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Harrisonburg Farmers Market Now Offers EBT Matching Program

The Harrisonburg Farmers Market is now offering a program called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, otherwise known as SNAP, which, according to the USDA website, “offers nutrition assistance to millions of eligible, low-income individuals and families and provides economic benefits to communities.” Plus, all SNAP qualified customers will benefit from a matching...

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