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When Midtowne Market closed their doors in January, you could almost hear a collective “nooo” issuing from downtown Harrisonburg. But the convenience store has been sold, and will soon be reopening under new management.

The rumor floated on Twitter last week is confirmed in today’s Daily News-Record: Best Buy is coming to town. According to the story, it’s expected to open in May in the former Circuit City location in Harrisonburg Crossing.

Today the city announced that starting Monday, February 15, they will issue citations for unshoveled sidewalks in the city.
From the release sent out this afternoon:
“Under city code section 6-1-15, sidewalks are to be clear within three hours of the end of snowfall or by ten in the morning if the snow has fallen overnight. [...]

In addition to the growing local blogosphere, there are also quite a few locals who podcast regularly.  Here are a few recently updated podcasts which are produced nearby:

Remember when snow day open threads used to be novel, fun, and rare? Those were the days.
Feel free to add comments and updates about snow, road conditions, closures, and flooding on this post as the winter of ‘010 continues to dump on Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.

Several Harrisonburg restaurants are holding fundraisers to aid in the earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. This evening A Bowl of Good, which has been serving Haitian food all day, is donating proceeds from this evening’s sales to ongoing earthquake relief efforts. According to a recent tweet, The Oriental Market donated some of the food the [...]

hburgnews reader Drew Richard is working on a handy little guide for local restaurants.
Couldn’t find anything like this I liked, so I made a quick filterable food guide for Harrisonburg. Will be adding more features soon (including adding more phone numbers), but figured I’d go ahead and make this public as it might be useful [...]

The engineering firm hired to study parking in downtown Harrisonburg recommended that the city add more spaces. TV3 reports the firm’s recommendations include “adding as many as 500 parking spaces in downtown, increasing the overtime parking fee to $20 and getting tough on repeat parking offenders.”
A report says on average, as much as 75 percent [...]

The flooding that started Sunday and Monday continues in some parts of Rockingham County today. The map at 511virginia.org still shows several road closures as of this morning.
Yesterday, reader Jon T. emailed us: “The Cooks Creek/Silver Lake Rd. bridge in Dayton was flooded and impassable this morning. This is an addition to Madison St. in [...]