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Local News6 years ago

Mark Butler leaves Herndon Police job to go ‘all in’ on sheriff’s campaign

On Thursday, September 26, Mark Butler sat down in the Royal Examiner/National Media studios to discuss his independent run for Warren County Sheriff and suddenly surfaced...
Local Government6 years ago

Council divided on move toward second, Town-controlled EDA

A new strategy on handling the EDA situation emerged from the Front Royal Town Council Work Session Monday night, September 23 – that strategy was...
EDA in Focus6 years ago

Defense attorneys move to quash grand jury misdemeanor indictments

Thirteen of 14 EDA and County municipal officials indicted last Friday and booked Tuesday on three identical Special Grand Jury misdemeanor indictments regarding a lapse of...
Local News6 years ago

Sayre retains county Republican ballot support, steps down as vice chair

At its monthly meeting on September 26th, the Warren County Republican Committee put on a face of unity amidst a perhaps divisive internal effort to withdraw...
Local Government6 years ago

Citizens demonstrate, speak against water policy change in North Corridor

Public opposition to a request for a radical change in the Town’s water utility extension policy beyond its municipal boundary to facilitate residential development as a...
EDA in Focus6 years ago

Warren County’s EDA financial scandal – How did it happen? Robert Goodlatte brings a $140 million fantasy to this community

We closed Part Two of our series on what went wrong within the EDA and local government that allowed an alleged embezzlement-tinged scandal to fester for...
Local Government6 years ago

Grand Jury indicts 14 County and EDA officials for lack of EDA oversight

According to the Virginia State Police on Friday, September 20, the Warren County Special Grand Jury investigating potential criminality related to the Front Royal-Warren County Economic...
EDA in Focus6 years ago

Misprision: A new word in the debate over absence of EDA oversight

Thanks to our daily update on the English language from Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary service we have come across a word we had been unfamiliar with that...
EDA in Focus6 years ago

FRPD project ‘double draw’ draws EDA Finance Committee’s attention

The so-called January double draw on the United Bank account the Economic Development Authority is using to pay for work or debt service on the Front...
EDA in Focus6 years ago

High drama on day two of Sayre defamation suit against McDonald

As Royal Examiner reported on September 11, that day Shenandoah District Supervisor Tom Sayre was awarded $20,000 of $25,000 in damages he was seeking in a...
Local Government6 years ago

County Building Code Appeals Board reduces Atwood violations to five

A second Warren County Building Code violations appeal go-round between local builder Buracker Construction and disgruntled home construction client Kristie Atwood on Tuesday, September 10, resulted...
EDA in Focus6 years ago

Exploring Warren County’s EDA financial scandal – How did it happen?

As the final weeks of the summer of 2019 arrive in the northwestern Shenandoah Valley, one small-town, rural community remains conflicted, perhaps even collectively traumatized by...
Local News7 years ago

Rollback of Wetlands Protections undermines Chesapeake Bay Cleanup

The non-partisan, environmental watchdog group that alerted the public to dangerous levels of E Coli contamination in the Shenandoah River in 2017 has released a critical...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

Town vs. EDA civil case motions arguments pushed to October 9

Town of Front Royal Attorney Doug Napier and legal counsel for the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority were in Warren County Circuit Court Thursday morning...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

Sayre awarded $20,000 in defamation suit against former EDA director

After three and a half hours of sometimes contention testimony Wednesday afternoon, shortly after 5 p.m. Judge Ian Williams awarded Shenandoah District Supervisor Tom Sayre a...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

Criminal and non-criminal dereliction of public duty: Where might they apply in the EDA financial scandal?

In coming stories Royal Examiner will explore how the “catastrophic failure” of processes and oversight leading to the EDA financial fraud investigation and its resultant...
Local Government7 years ago

Confusion abounds as BZA upholds Mendes appeal of flood plain violations

Confusion and a sense of vindication – though nebulous in its ultimate resolution – was the reaction of Nelson Mendes and his attorney Timothy R....
Local News7 years ago

Schools Superintendent Drescher announces retirement at end of year

In a press release issued at 9:32 a.m. Friday morning, September 6, Warren County Public School Superintendent Greg Drescher announced his pending retirement on January 1,...
Local Government7 years ago

County, Shenandoah Farms move to head off a deadly shooting accident

On Tuesday evening, August 20, the Property Owners of Shenandoah Farms (POSF) Board of Directors came to the Warren County Board of Supervisors with a request...
Local Government7 years ago

Board Chairman Murray makes political, state financial restitution waves

One political bombshell punctuated the balance of the Tuesday morning, September 3, Warren County Board of Supervisors meeting. That was Board Chairman Dan Murray’s announcement that...
Local Government7 years ago

Supervisors reverse staff recommendation on Crooked Run West review

Following public criticism from one citizen, Gary Kushner, during public remarks at its Tuesday morning, September 3 meeting, the Warren County Board of Supervisors took an...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

Poe moves toward speedy trial dates in effort to clear name in EDA cases

December and January trial dates were set for EDA defendant Donald F. Poe Friday morning, August 30, in Warren County Circuit Court. A second EDA defendant,...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

‘Catastrophic Failure’ of processes, oversight addressed by EDA

It was not as observers in the gallery seats with interested citizens, but rather in the “front row” of the meeting table with the full Front...
Crime/Court7 years ago

McDonald and husband receive secured bonds on new EDA-related charges

After spending the weekend in jail, both Jennifer McDonald and her husband “Sammy” North received secured bonds from Judge Bruce D. Albertson late Monday morning. By...
Local News7 years ago

Old Town Hall inspection – HAZMAT suits and into the darkness

On Friday morning, August 23, members of Town staff, Interim Mayor Matt Tederick and Councilman Chris Holloway ventured inside the old Town Hall on an...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

EDA ponders separate future legal representation; elects new officers

At its monthly meeting of August 23 the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority Board of Directors discussed future legal representation in the wake of County...
Crime/Court7 years ago

UPDATE: B&G Goods William Lambert makes it four EDA arrests on August 23

When it rains it pours – and it is raining in Economic Development Authority criminal indictment world this Friday, August 23. Former B&G Goods co-owner and...
Local News7 years ago

Not a happy resolution for Hollis Tharpe at Republican mayor’s forum

Former Mayor Hollis Tharpe was looking for a boost Thursday evening (August 22) in his effort to regain the Front Royal Mayoral seat he voluntarily resigned...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

McDonald may be abandoning defamation suit against Sayre

In the wake of a letter requesting pending September hearing dates in Jennifer McDonald’s $600,000 civil defamation lawsuit against Tom Sayre be removed from the Warren...
Local Government7 years ago

Republicans prep for mayoral forum; deal with Sayre-Mabe canvass backlash

Front Royal mayoral candidates Eugene Tewalt and Hollis Tharpe will have the opportunity to face off in a Candidates Forum held by the Warren County Republican...

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