Following a 25 minute closed session discussion of legal matters including loans, accounting, debt service and matters involving First Bank & Trust the Front Royal-Warren County...
Is Jennifer McDonald’s civil case counsel on the verge of a “take the money and run” move? Hot on the heels of being cited in the...
Many have wondered when or even if prosecutors and state investigators guiding the Warren County Special Grand Jury’s look into criminality tied to the Economic...
A scheduled Wednesday afternoon motions hearing in the Town of Front Royal’s civil suit against the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority has been continued to...
During recent discussion of the Town’s economic development future it was commented that the myriad legal issues the EDA is currently facing may be occupying an...
Correction: Royal Examiner would like to acknowledge a typo in the second paragraph under the subheader “Family and Friends” in the October 4 story “McDonald family members,...
On Thursday, September 26, just two days after being booked along with 12 of 13 other municipal officials on three misdemeanor counts of misfeasance and...
It was a nearly full house of around 60 citizens, mostly angry and accusatory, that greeted the Warren County Board of Supervisors and staff at...
At the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority monthly meeting on Friday, September 27, a four-person quorum, plus one (Greg Harold) by phone connection for a...
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...
A new strategy on handling the EDA situation emerged from the Front Royal Town Council Work Session Monday night, September 23 – that strategy was...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Confusion and a sense of vindication – though nebulous in its ultimate resolution – was the reaction of Nelson Mendes and his attorney Timothy R....
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,...
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...
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...
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...