Anya Sczerzenie

Virginia

Journalist at Freelance

Rockingham County Beat Reporter at Daily News Record

🍎reporter at Prince William Times, VCU graduate🍓 she/her

Articles

5 Things to Do With the Kids

3 days ago | fredericknewspost.com | Anya Sczerzenie

1. Explore More Discovery MuseumDowntown Harrisonburg’s children’s museum is one of the city’s landmarks and is a good way to help your kids learn while they have fun. The museum includes themed play areas, from a kitchen to a theater, and craft areas. Tickets cost $9 per person per day, and children under a year old get in free. Through the Museums for All program, families who receive SNAP can get in for $3 per person with a valid ID. kAm`d_ $] |2:?
Red Wing Roots hosts The Steel Wheels celebrate 20 years of music

4 days ago | dnronline.com | Anya Sczerzenie

MT. SOLON — Virginia-based folk-rock band The Steel Wheels has hosted the Red Wing Roots Music Festival almost every year since 2013. But this year was special — it marked the 20th anniversary of the band, which formed at Eastern Mennonite University two decades ago and has been going strong ever since. Trent Wagler, the band’s lead vocalist, was one of three EMU students and one non-student who decided to form the band in 2005.
Rockingham County school board removes more books from libraries

4 days ago | dnronline.com | Anya Sczerzenie

The Rockingham County school board removed two books from school libraries and discussed scaling back technology used in elementary schools at Monday night’s school board meeting. It also responded to the ongoing conflict with Harrisonburg City Public Schools over Massanutten Technical Center. Three books were up for a vote Monday night, and the school division’s content review committee recommended that all three be retained. Nevertheless, the board voted to remove two of them.
Fans attending Red Wing Roots Music Festival find ways to survive heat wave

6 days ago | dnronline.com | Anya Sczerzenie

MT. SOLON — The Red Wing Roots Music Festival is known for its music, kid-friendly nature, community feel and extreme weather. Whether it’s scorching heat or pouring rain, regular Red Wing Roots attendees have had to deal with many adverse weather conditions. As a heat wave heads towards the eastern U.S., temperatures were forecast to top 90 degrees Fahrenheit on the weekend of the music festival.
For some, the Red Wing Roots Music Festival is more exciting than Christmas

1 week ago | dnronline.com | Anya Sczerzenie

MT. SOLON — When the Rayburn parents ask their daughters, ages 11 and 13, if they’d rather skip Christmas or the Red Wing Roots Music Festival, their answer is always the same: Christmas. “We say it’s our Christmas,” Maureen Rayburn said of the music festival. “Even when walking around with wet feet and hair, we’re like, this is the best.
Harrisonburg may allow homeschoolers to attend MTC next year

1 week ago | dnronline.com | Anya Sczerzenie

The Harrisonburg school board discussed an urgent school renovation project, a decrease in funding and a potential change to MTC attendance rules at their last work session of the school year on Thursday. The board is considering allowing the city’s homeschooled and private school students to attend the Massanutten Technical Center. The city and county schools each have so many slots they can fill at the center.
Grottoes pool packed to capacity after reopening

2 weeks ago | dnronline.com | Anya Sczerzenie

GROTTOES — If you looked at the crystal blue waters of the Grand Caverns Pool today, you’d never think it was completely unusable just a year ago. The newly reopened Grand Caverns Pool was packed on one of the hottest days of the year so far as kids on summer vacation, their parents, and locals from Grottoes and beyond. “We’ve hit capacity every day since we opened,” said town Parks and Tourism Director Austin Shank. “The locals are excited, to say the least.
Grottoes council approves water, sewer rate increases

2 weeks ago | dnronline.com | Anya Sczerzenie

GROTTOES — Grottoes council members passed the town’s $5 million budget Monday night, which includes slight increases in water and sewer fees and no change in trash fees. The budget passed 3-2, with council members Jim Justis and Eddie Chittum voting against it. Council member Joshua Bailey was absent from the meeting. Taxes will not increase for Grottoes residents, but the water and sewer fees will increase by 3% due to inflation, which is consistent with other towns in Rockingham County.
Grottoes passes budget

2 weeks ago | dnronline.com | Anya Sczerzenie

GROTTOES — Grottoes council members passed the town’s $5 million budget Monday night, which includes slight increases in water and sewer fees and no change in trash fees. The budget passed 3-2, with council members Jim Justis and Eddie Chittum voting against it. Council member Joshua Bailey was absent from the meeting. Taxes will not increase for Grottoes residents, but the water and sewer fees will increase by 3% due to inflation, which is consistent with other towns in Rockingham County.
Stone Spring PTSO celebrates cafeteria workers, bus drivers and custodians

2 weeks ago | dnronline.com | Anya Sczerzenie

In preparation for the last day of school on June 5 at Stone Spring Elementary in Harrisonburg, the Parent Teacher Student Organization wanted to highlight those often overlooked — cafeteria workers, bus drivers and custodians. The PTSO gave each employee a $20 Walmart gift card June 2 during a morning ceremony, according to PTSO president Derek Chaudhuri. The funds for the gift cards came from PTSO events throughout the year, such as movie nights.

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