I was wondering if our Royal Examiner readership was aware of the passing of Diane Crump last week at age 77. Crump, a lifelong resident of...
Ken Evans, who stepped down a few weeks ago following his year as president of the Front Royal Rotary Club, announced last Friday (Aug. 23) that...
Mary Powers Ryan, who we dubbed the “cat lady” of Rockland in her bid to find a home for a stray who was just one too...
Mary Powers Ryan lives on a small farm in Rockland and for years has tended stray cats, nurturing and feeding those beggars that daily appeared at...
Front Royal’s Julia Wagner Animal Shelter on Progress Drive closes for three weeks starting July 1 while interior construction projects, including new floor tiling throughout, are...
Following two decades in the Rotary Club of Front Royal, in which he became club president in the year 2019-2020, Bret Hrbek, on Monday, June 24,...
The Rotary Club of Front Royal elected its 2024-2025 president when retiring president Ken Evans handed over the gavel at a luncheon ceremony on Friday, June...
For the third consecutive year, the Town of Front Royal will mark the three-day Memorial Day weekend with a plethora of activities designed to mark the...
Helen Zebarth of Winchester, founder of Blue Ridge Hospice some 45 years ago, was honored with the formation of the Helen Zebarth Legacy Society, consisting of...
The “new look” Valley Chorale, founded in 1962, ended its second year under new management and an up-and-coming artistic director, Samantha Isely — she arrived last...
It was a bitter-sweet evening for me at the Humane Society of Warren County (HSWC) annual “Barks and Bags” fundraiser that drew some 265 of Warren...
Last Tuesday, April 9, became an evening of “hellos”, “goodbyes” and “good jobs” at the annual meeting of the Humane Society of Warren County (HSWC), where...
It was almost three years ago that a Front Royal mother-of-two went public, frantically seeking help to get her husband a long-awaited kidney transplant to save...
The Rotary Club of Front Royal packed the dining room and dance floor of the Shenandoah Valley Golf Club last weekend for its annual gala, raising...
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center’s hospital in Boyce, in its 2023 annual report, notes a sharp increase in patients last year – 3,645 – and a substantial...
Two relative newcomers to Warren County, who arrived in 2018 initially to live closer to aging parents, are investing time and energy into their new home...
Kayla Wines, a 10-year veteran on the staff of the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter in Front Royal and recently appointed executive director of the Humane Society...
In a year-end report to “friends and supporters of the Humane Society of Warren County,” Interim Humane Society Executive Director Kayla Wines highlighted the society’s Julia...
It’s been a few years since Royal Examiner representatives visited the Blue Ridge Wildlife Center (BRWC) in Boyce, and most of that time our online newspaper...
Blue Ridge Arts Council’s annual “Deck the Halls” — now in place in downtown Front Royal for almost two decades — opens today, Thursday, November 30,...
(Writer’s note: This story has been updated, including with a corrected SAGE website where donations may be made.) Front Royal physician Dr. Thomas (“call me Tommy”)...
Former Warren Sentinel editor Kevin Seabrooke came out from behind his byline over the weekend, turning instead to a late-life – he just turned 60 –...
The Rev. Valerie Hayes of Calvary Episcopal Church in downtown Front Royal conducted a “St. Francis Blessing of the Animals” ceremony in the church’s parking lot,...
Prominent Milwood/Rockland residents Adie and Beatrice von Gontard have joined neighbor John Piazza, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, in organizing a “meet & greet” with...
Nights at the opera last Thursday and Friday attracted full houses both nights at the attractively refurbished Osteria Maria Italian restaurant, now under new management along...
While our local press, including the Royal Examiner, is covering “like a blanket,” some would say, the juvenile library book controversy, today, as I am writing...
In one of her final official duties of the year, 2022-23 Rotary Club of Front Royal President Lori Glascock named the Town’s Community Development and Tourism...
At Rotary Club of Front Royal President Lori Glascock’s penultimate meeting of her one-year tenure, two additional grants were awarded Friday to local non-profits which sent...
As the non-profit Blue Ridge Wildlife Center (BRWC), located in Boyce, looks toward its annual upscale fundraising banquet at Long Branch historic house and farm at...
The Rotary Club of Front Royal’s president, Lori Glascock, is using the last weeks of her one-year term of office to distribute scholarship money and other...