Following a closed session Monday morning the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Board of Directors approved the hiring of a permanent replacement for Jennifer McDonald as...
Shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday evening, April 25, Warren County Republican Committee Chairman Steve Kurtz announced that John Bell had garnered the Party’s nomination for Warren...
Shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday evening, April 25, Warren County Republican Committee Chairman Steve Kurtz announced that John Bell had garnered the Party’s nomination for Warren...
The specter of EDA scandal permeated the Front Royal Town Council meeting of April 22 despite an absence of any overt Economic Development Authority business or...
Unsealed documents related to a Virginia State Police investigation into the finances of former Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Director Jennifer McDonald indicate that she lied...
Contacted by phone on April 20, ITFederal principal Truc “Curt” Tran said he was limited in what he could say about his plans for his 30-acre...
With a rising tide of critical public scrutiny of past failures of municipal oversight of the Town-County Economic Development Authority resulting in civil litigation involving an...
On Monday evening the Front Royal Town Council gathered for the first time without Mayor Hollis Tharpe present in the wake of his self-imposed administrative leave...
On Monday morning, April 15, at the first of two special meetings of the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority Board of Directors called this week...
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Virginia State Police conducted a search and apparent removal of items from the office of the Front Royal-Warren...
Front Royal Mayor Hollis Tharpe was present with wife Debbie to hear a misdemeanor warrant issued for solicitation of prostitution by a Warren County Grand Jury...
What might the mayor of Front Royal and the owner of the New England Patriots have in common? If you said criminal scrutiny involving massage parlors,...
FRONT ROYAL – If it was a boxing match it would have been ruled a split decision – on Wednesday evening, April 10, just over an...
On Tuesday evening, April 9, Warren County’s elected officials found themselves between a rock and a hard place: a room full of people – estimated at...
Shortly after 6 p.m., Tuesday, April 9, Tabitha Zimmerman took the stand in her own defense against charges she was willfully negligent of signs of a...
While divided philosophically and criticized constituency for fiscal indecisiveness, the Front Royal Town Council unanimously approved a Real Estate Tax Rate of 13.5 cents Monday night....
The trial of Tabitha Zimmerman for negligent complicity in the death of one of her 22-month-old twins and physical abuse of the other on November 8,...
As referenced in our second story on ramifications of the investigation into financial wrongdoing and alleged embezzlement of FR-WC Economic Development Authority assets, the rationale used...
Today we add three more elected county officials to our record of public reactions to the escalating and seemingly never-ending story about the forensic audit of...
As noted in our story on approval of a half-million-dollar increase (to $760,000) in County funding of the financial investigation (forensic audit) and consequent litigation resulting...
At the April 2, 2019, Warren County Board of Supervisors meeting Shenandoah Supervisor Tom Sayre, who is engaged in dueling defamation lawsuits with Jennifer McDonald, raised...
FRONT ROYAL – Following an hour-and-a-half closed session discussion Tuesday morning, April 2, the Warren County Board of Supervisors upped authorization on the cost of the...
In a rare open meeting discussion of EDA financial anomalies on Monday evening, April 1 – we know, who’s the fool? – the Front Royal Town...
The day before the EDA financial corruption story began dominating last week’s news cycle several citizens confronted the Front Royal Town Council on the proposed solution...
On Friday, March 29, Earth Right Energy Solar Commercial LLC issued the second statement of denial of any involvement in money laundering, embezzlement or theft of...
Following a tumultuous five-day period culminating with the Tuesday, March 26 filing of a nine-defendant, 199-point civil suit filed on behalf of the Front Royal-Warren County...
The nine-defendant, 199-point civil suit filed Tuesday, March 26, on behalf of the “Warren EDA” as it is referred to in the lawsuit has broken the...
In the wake of recent revelations about ITFederal principal Truc “Curt” Tran’s decision not to relocate his IT solutions company to the remediated former Avtex Superfund...
The specter of slavish acceptance of misinformation from the Economic Development Authority and the handing over of a $60-million EDA-financed loan to tax-exempt Valley Health for...
Mark this day on your calendar – on Tuesday afternoon, March 26, the first legal hammer fell in the wake of a six-month, quarter-million-dollar-plus investigation of...