Roger Bianchini

Town’s surplus situation not as rosy as some on council may have thought

Front Royal Finance Director B. J. Wilson gave the town council a troubling overview of the Town’s financial situation at a Monday, October 15 work session...

Blue Ridge Heritage Project cuts ribbon on chimney memorial

Over 100 people gathered Saturday afternoon, October 13, 2018, for the ceremonial ribbon cutting of the Blue Ridge Heritage Project memorial stone chimney.  With completion of...

Front Royal Town Council Candidates Forum – big on goals, sparse on how to achieve them

On Thursday evening, October 11, six candidates for three seats on the Front Royal Town Council took center stage in the Warren County Government Center.  Those...

Salins again challenges EDA on Valley Health bond fee payment

Near the outset of the October 9 Front Royal Town Council meeting, Melanie Salins revisited her criticism of what she believes is a “sweetheart” deal delivered...

Council moves toward middle ground on property maintenance standards

The long and winding, approximately two-year road toward Town authority to enforce increased property maintenance standards took another step on Tuesday evening, October 9.  That step...

McDonald misdemeanor trial on for October 31

The misdemeanor criminal trial of Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority Executive Director Jennifer McDonald will go on as scheduled the afternoon of October 31 in...

Blue Ridge Heritage Project Memorial Chimney dedicated this Saturday

Just two months after breaking ground with descendants of mountain families relocated to facilitate creation of Shenandoah National Park, Warren County’s Memorial to those families whose...

Delay sought by prosecution in McDonald case – Graham ID’ed as witness

The potential of a delay in the misdemeanor trial of Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Executive Director Jennifer McDonald for filing a false police report has...

Driver inattentiveness cited at top of safety issues in Route 55 E corridor

Looking toward Rt. 55 East exiting High Knob – Photos/Roger BianchiniAfter listening to an elaborate Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) report on traffic analysis and curative...

Sayre publicly acknowledges civil suit against EDA executive director

During board member reports at the Tuesday-morning county supervisors meeting, Shenandoah District Supervisor Tom Sayre acknowledged his civil suit against Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority...

Skyline High uproar – Why teenagers are warned about social media decisions

Warren County Public Schools finds itself enmeshed in a rising social media uproar after 18 Skyline High School students posed for a photo prior to last...

United We Stand – for our right to publicly disagree politically

They say politics makes strange bedfellows – and it couldn’t get much stranger than pro- and anti-Trump contingents presenting a united front right here in Front...

Brew and Blues Festival

Beer Museum proprietor’s social media ‘bullying tactics’ decried to council

Opponents of David Downes request to have private parking spaces behind his properties at 14 and 16 Chester Street exempted for expansion of a ‘Beer Garden”...

Planning Commission recommends no Beer Museum parking exemption

Despite an overwhelming 13-3 show of public hearing support for a requested downtown parking exemption to allow expansion of a backyard Beer Garden at The Virginia...

Town draws ‘line in the mud’ with ITFederal on stormwater drainage costs

As noted in the lead to Royal Examiner’s accompanying September 17 Front Royal Town Council work session story on pedestrian-safety plans, This Related Story also discussed...

Council examines planned northside pedestrian-activated light project

  Money – whether to save it; raise it; and how to spend it – continues to be a primary topic of conversation for the Front...

Animal Cruelty charges added to those facing Wendy and Brian Tenney

A Monday press release (September 17) from the Warren County Sheriff’s Office announced that charges related to the execution of the September 12 search warrant and...

Intergalactic technology lands at this year’s Sami.Con library celebration

On Saturday, September 15, the fourth annual Samuels Public Library “Sami.Con” festival continued its theme of popular culture fantasy, sci-fi and wizardry with the “Fantastic Books...

Tenneys charged on 6 felony counts – ‘Labor-Cruelty & Injuries to Children’

The woman fighting Warren County for her right to be permitted to operate a dog breeding kennel was arrested with her husband Thursday evening/early Friday morning,...

Tenney facing animal cruelty charges in wake of new property search

The woman who has filed a legal challenge of the Warren County Board of Supervisors authority to revoke her permit to operate a commercial dog breeding...

Circa-1950’s Afton Inn annex structure is ‘history’

Two days after by-hand demolition of the Afton Inn’s side entrance overhang porch roof, the annex structure added to the 150-year-old building in the 1950’s came...

Council finally approves temporary financing solution on FRPD radio system

One week after the special meeting called for the express purpose of approving a temporary financial solution to moving an estimated three-month order and installation process...

Public calls for more active Property Maintenance Code enforcement – and it works

A strong public outpouring of support for stronger property maintenance enforcement led to an unexpected result at Monday’s Front Royal Town Council meeting. Work session discussion...

Blanton tabbed as EDA board chair – stresses sound recruitment tactics

Gray Blanton was unanimously selected to chair the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority Board of Directors at a special meeting Friday morning, September 7. Acting...

2018 to 1984 – Make Oceania Great Again

As politics in America deteriorates to what has been described by some historians as its most tribal and divisive level since the 1850’s, the very idea...

Front Royal mayor under investigation – expresses shock, seeks answers

Front Royal Mayor Hollis Tharpe says he was blindsided by information that Warren County Commonwealth’s Attorney Brian Madden has recused himself from any possible prosecution relating...

County drops golf club litigation – but is it a permanent reversal?

On Wednesday, September 5, Warren County Attorney Dan Whitten filed a non-suit motion on the County’s legal request to have golf removed as a required use...

Have political demonstrations become a threat to downtown business?

Could an initiative brought forward by local business forum representatives at a September 4 work session lead the Front Royal Town Council into a First Amendment...

Hurry up, slow down – short-term FRPD radio financing vote aborted

Despite having called a Special Meeting on September 4 for the express purpose of commencing with the purchase of a new digital-based VHF radio system for...