As someone who is genuinely wary of data centers – primarily because of the uranium extraction/disposal process and the environmental impacts caused by construction of SMRs...
At last Tuesday’s meeting of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, Shenandoah district Supervisor John Stanmeyer waded (no pun intended) into the issue of Christendom College...
I would like to publicly apologize to the community at large for supporting the perfect candidate that never was. My reasons were compelling. I got a...
There’s a crisis brewing, and it has nothing to do with political parties. It’s about truth, or more accurately, the total absence of it, coming from...
At the Tuesday Board of Supervisors meeting, the frustration with the lies, deceit, and senseless attacks on Samuels Library boiled over. One speaker called the four...
The light shines brighter. I was a little young to strike out on my own and attend the Woodstock music festival in 1969. I could not...
A Machiavellian tactic refers to a strategy rooted in cunning, manipulation, and pragmatic (often ruthless) pursuit of power, as outlined by Niccolò Machiavelli in The Prince....
I have the unique gift of sharing a life and a home with someone running to represent the 6th Congressional District, Peter Barlow. When Peter first...
Thank You, Little League and Appaloosa! You read that right. This past month has allowed for much introspection in my life: How I have lived. How...
If you haven’t been following the conflict between four of the members of the Warren County Board of Supervisors and the Trustees at Samuels Public Library,...
It wasn’t really big; it was a bit faded, a little dirty from smoke, and the bottom right corner was torn (got caught in a helicopter...
The people of Warren County have spoken, loudly and repeatedly: fund our library. Yet four members of the Board of Supervisors have chosen to ignore the...
Warren County citizens will soon welcome a new county administrator, selected by the four board members of the apocalypse. Given recent decisions and actions made by...
In March, the untrained 4 Warren County supervisors voted not to renew a funding agreement with Samuels Public Library. At that time, Supervisor Jamieson said, “There...
Update to my ‘Letter to the Editor’ last week: But it is just a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors has now...
On August 14, 2025, local musicians, comedians, and artists will gather for Rock for a Cause—a benefit concert in support of the Save Samuels Library PAC....
I am writing to implore religious leaders in the Shenandoah Valley to use their influence to encourage their congregations to demand of our elected leaders an...
Whenever you are out in Southeast Frederick, Front Royal, or Clarke County (Berryville) and you see four people together, usually a 5th person will join, and...
When the house right next to mine became an Airbnb, I thought, “How bad could it be?” Well, I found out it was REALLY bad. The...
The Warren County Board of Supervisors is to be commended for conducting negotiations with the board of directors of Samuel’s Public Library in a thorough and...
I watch an hour of news every evening. The bad news always comes first in journalism. There is a saying, if it bleeds it leads. The...
I live in a neighborhood like many others—houses and yards, driveways and fences, a patchwork of tidy lawns in Front Royal, Virginia. But if you look...
Read really close to the page. What follows might be contagious and you may want some for yourself. It happens. It happened to me. This is...
Good or bad, right or wrong, left or right – we all make choices, we take sides. We choose what news to believe, who to blame on...
I found it hard to understand why Library Systems & Services (LS&S) suddenly walked away from free money. When they were first approached, a quick search...
The recent flooding in Texas—most notably at Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River, where young campers and counselors lost their lives—leaves my soul aching. It brought...
In response to the recent Warren County Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting held on July 1, 2025, in which Supervisor Jamieson went on a lengthy tirade...
Make no mistake that pictures do say 1000 words, or maybe 10,000 in this case. The boredom clearly kicked in with BOS Chair Butler and Rep....
I’ve been a resident of Warren County for just over eight years. I live in the Happy Creek district (news to me!) I discovered this fact...
We’ve got enough to deal with in Warren County without people like John Massoud trying to turn neighbors against each other. Most of us out here...