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New Bridges – Meeting the needs of the residents from foreign lands

Consider a few statistics: In 1990, just 2.4% of Harrisonburg’s population was foreign born. That figure rose substantially over the following decade to 9.2%, and now sits, per the latest Census Bureau estimate, at 14.1%. Or, to put that in more real-to-life terms, there are now more than 7,000 immigrants living in Harrisonburg – plus ...More