The Town Planning Commission on Wednesday, October 1, at their monthly work session, took a microscopically focused look at auxiliary dwelling units as well as the...
After two years of covering a Town Council body that has remained the same except for a town manager’s departure at the beginning of this year,...
“We’re baking a cake for Daddy to show him that we love him.” “Otherwise, he won’t know we love him?” “That’s right.” A film about suicide,...
At their Wednesday, September 17 meeting, the Town Planning Commission voted to recommend the proposed data center ordinance, with Commissioner Megan Marrazzo dissenting. Even Marrazzo acknowledged...
At a meeting of the County Planning Commission on Wednesday, September 10, an item that had been tabled at a previous meeting reappeared for a verdict...
“It can’t be both,” said Ellen Aders, a member of the Board of Architectural Review, referring to the tug of war between preservation of the Historic...
Amid an update from Tourism Director Lizi Lewis, several housekeeping items presented by Purchasing Manager Michelle Campbell and Finance Director B.J. Wilson respectively, and a request...
On Saturday, September 27, Royal Oak Bookshop will celebrate fifty years of business, and the community is invited to celebrate with them. Its inception in 1975...
On Wednesday, September 17, the Town Planning Commission will hold two public hearings at 7 p.m. in the Warren County Government Center, the second of which...
In a week’s time, a structure will have arisen on Osage Street, adjacent to the community treasure Spelunkers. For the people who eventually inhabit this residential...
Among several items briefly addressed, like special use permits and a request for refund of an application fee, the Town Council reviewed at their Tuesday, September...
Amid an initiative to relax the requirement that the town manager reside in Front Royal, revision to the employee handbook regarding paid time off, affirmation of...
“This is my third year running this group at ASR,” said Debra Curtis in an email interview. Curtis is one of the teachers, and the group...
“If I don’t come in to work, nobody knows it,” County Administrator Ed Daley reflected prior to an event at the Warren Heritage Society. “If it...
“Enthusiastic, yes!” Chairman of the Town Planning Commission, Connie Marshner, forcefully rendered her vote in favor of code revision to accommodate auxiliary dwelling units at the...
“I want to please the audience, and I’ve found the best way to please an audience is to please myself.” In her nine-hundred-plus-page memoir, My Name...
A meeting of the County Planning Commission on Wednesday, August 13, brought into key focus the one-hundred-foot setback requirement for short-term tourist rentals. This item came...
As artificial intelligence advances rapidly, the ease of reporting increases in direct proportion. A simple query with an instant response based on a lightning-fast calculation of...
“We know what not to do,” Planning Director Lauren Kopishke stated at the Wednesday, August 6 work session of the Town Planning Commission, amid a preliminary...
At their work session on Monday, August 4, the Town Council reviewed potential acquisitions and evaluated possible changes in the employee handbook to the policy on...
“There’s that loss of connection,” Adam Packham remarked at a Saturday, August 2 event at the Front Royal-Warren County Airport. Geared towards combat veterans, this skydiving...
“It matters,” said Sergeant Clingerman of the Front Royal Police Department, reflecting on the importance of baseball to Front Royal and the appropriateness of the police...
“That is exactly what they should be doing,” said Mayor Lori Cockrell, explaining the absence of the Front Royal boys’ baseball little league team from the...
Ahead of the Warren County Fair kicking off on Monday, July 28, with a pageant for ages thirteen and up, a Miss Warren County Fair pageant...
You would need directions to find it, and maybe that is the point. Three miles outside of Front Royal, the Front Royal-Warren County Airport is a...
“It is irresponsible not to have standards,” Planning Director Lauren Kopishke said when she sat down with the Royal Examiner on the morning of Thursday, July...
Amid general heaviness – the disappointment of a Town-County liaison meeting being cancelled, analysis of excess water volume and a potential power purchase, weighing the merits...
When an item pulled out of the consent agenda was discussed at the County Planning Commission’s meeting on the evening of Wednesday, July 9, a divide...
The Town Council work session on Monday, July 7, was packed with issues affecting everything from infrastructure to housing development, zoning clarity, and regional cooperation. Key...
During its July 2 work session, the Front Royal Planning Commission reviewed three key code items: two proposed zoning text amendments and one in-progress draft aimed...