On Saturday evening, September 12, a number of candidates for Front Royal Town Council and Mayor met citizens in an informal meet and greet event in...
As the November 3, 2020 election approaches with alarms bells being sounded by both major party leaderships over attempts to interfere, manipulate or otherwise impact results...
(Author’s note: this commentary was written on Sept. 11 and 12, 2001, as events transpired. Today, September 11, 2020, Royal Examiner reprints an edited version to...
From East Main Street restaurants, artisan exhibits to Gazebo and Chester Street live music and a Virginia Beer Museum Fish Fry and candidates get together punctuated...
At the September 1 County Supervisors meeting, Warren County Public Schools Superintendent Chris Ballenger gave a detailed summary of the planning process to assure maximum safety...
An unexpected confrontation over legal accountability for the local distribution of federal CARES Act relief funding erupted during Interim Town Manager Matt Tederick’s update on Town...
Royal Examiner paid a visit to retiring Deputy County Administrator Bob Childress on his final day on the job, Monday, August 31st. Here Childress is pictured...
During the August 24th open town council work session discussion of its options in creating a new unilateral Front Royal Economic Development Authority (FR-EDA) to work...
Following adjournment to a work session, closed session to discuss its litigation with the existing Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority (EDA), the Front Royal Town...
As reported in our lead story on the August 19 Warren County Republican Committee Candidates Forum, only four of the 11 candidates on the November Town...
The other side of the weekend East Main Street downtown walking mall story slapped an abrupt about-face to the Front Royal Town Council’s initial impetus to...
Earlier rains having passed through, county militia members and 2nd Amendment advocates “mustered” under sunny but not oppressively hot August 22nd skies at the Town of...
As to where the August 18th “government overreach” debate began for the Warren County Board of Supervisors – it was in the Linden Heights Sanitary District....
With only four of 11 candidates on the November ballot present – Scott Lloyd, Joseph McFadden, Lori Cockrell (council trio) and Chris Holloway (mayor) – and...
Two successive public hearings in the midst of a loaded 10-public hearing County Board of Supervisors agenda Tuesday night, August 18, led to a perhaps unexpectedly...
A week after being approached at its August 10th meeting by two East Main Street business people, Kelly Walker (The Studio: A Place for Learning) and...
The Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority Executive Committee met virtually Friday, August 14, to discuss its Strategic Plan. That an economic development strategy must balance...
Money, law enforcement, and emergency services were at the forefront of an eight-item work session agenda of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, Tuesday night, August...
At Monday’s work session following its August 10th regular meeting, council, the mayor and staff went round and round, not over the advisability of approving a...
On Wednesday, August 12, the Virginia State Police (VSP) issued a press release on the circumstance of the multi-jurisdiction pursuit and arrest of Herndon resident Jennifer...
Following Town Attorney Doug Napier’s reading of the Roberts Rules of Order conditions on public and member conduct in critiquing proposed municipal business and actions, the...
A 39-year-old woman is in Rappahannock-Shenandoah-Warren County (RSW) Regional Jail without bond on six charges related to an August 7th law enforcement chase during which at...
The cover sheet for Monday evening’s (Aug. 10) Front Royal Town Council meeting contains an addition in BOLD text under item number 5, “Petitions and/or Correspondence...
Board comments and questions revolving around a variety of financial issues were heard at the August 4th Warren County Board of Supervisors meeting, as was one...
Other than the Confederate soldier statue debate, the other primary topic during the opening public comments portion of Tuesday morning, August 4th, Warren County Board of...
An unexpected debate over the fate of the Confederate Soldier Monument on the Warren County Courthouse lawn erupted at Tuesday morning’s County Board of Supervisors meeting....
The march of 2nd Amendment advocates recruiting local municipal governments to become “sanctuaries” against State laws passed by the Democratic majority in the Virginia General Assembly...
As the first weekend of August approaches in Front Royal’s ongoing walking mall effort to stimulate downtown foot traffic to help local Historic Business District businesses...
Several more Economic Development Authority civil defendants were in court Thursday morning, July 30, to hear their attorneys echo past EDA defendant counsel arguments on dismissal...
After being taken to the “brink” a week earlier during the County Supervisors’ 4-1/2 hour exploration of the intricacies and ethics of municipal government, things looked...