Randi B. Hagi
News ReporterRandi B. Hagi first joined the WMRA team in 2019 as a freelance reporter. Her writing and photography have been featured in The Harrisonburg Citizen, where she previously served as the assistant editor; as well as The Mennonite; Mennonite World Review; and Eastern Mennonite University's Crossroads magazine.
Randi grew up bouncing around the East Coast with roots in West Virginia. Outside of the media world, she has also worked in restaurants, managed the kitchen at the nonprofit Our Community Place, and raised ducks and sheep. You can contact Randi at hagirb@jmu.edu.
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Communities throughout the Shenandoah Valley are celebrating International Women's Day this weekend. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
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Basye area residents are raising funds to build a playground outside their public library. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi spoke to one of the organizers and filed this report.
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A regional law enforcement task force reports that the northwestern corner of Virginia saw an increase in drug overdoses and overdose deaths last month. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
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A museum documenting the history of the Harrisonburg Fire Department is now equipped with a video tour led by the agency's long standing leader. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
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The work of an artist who made his name in Richmond and the southern rock scene will soon be on display in the Valley, where he was born and raised. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
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A grand jury handed down a new indictment on Tuesday, adding a charge in the case of 41-year-old James Robert Allen. Allen stands accused of abducting a University of Virginia student last year before she was able to escape his truck. And court documents from a 2008 Fauquier County case reveal this to be at least the second incident in a pattern of violent behavior. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
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A local chapter of the U.S. and Canadian movement Mennonite Action rallied in Harrisonburg on Tuesday to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
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One of two people convicted of killing a three-year-old girl outside Waynesboro was sentenced in the Augusta County Circuit Court on Friday afternoon. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
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The state's watchdog agency released a report on psychiatric hospitals in December. It recommended that the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents in Staunton be shut down. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi discussed the findings with a psych nursing professor, and filed this report.
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Two years after its inception, a criminal diversion program in the Albemarle County and Charlottesville court systems is building healing after people have been wronged or hurt. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.