FRONT ROYAL – Though criminal charges have not been filed against former EDA Executive Director Jennifer McDonald, it is likely they are on the way. Officials...
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...
At the April 9, 2019 Warren County Board of Supervisors meeting, the public turned out to speak their mind. There was standing room only when 200+...
At the April 8,2019 Town Council meeting the Humane Society of Warren requested a donation of the use of the Town Trolley for “Waggin’ for Dragons”...
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....
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, broached...
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...
At the latest Town Council work session the following issues were on the agenda: Town Staff Items 1. Humane Society of Warren County Request to Use...
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...
FRONT ROYAL – Royal Examiner has learned, through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that, acting on the advice of then-EDA Executive Director Jennifer McDonald...
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...
FRONT ROYAL – Nine defendants were named in a civil case filed Tuesday in the Circuit Court of Warren County by the Front Royal-Warren County...
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...
While the big news to develop out of the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority’s second hour-plus closed session of Friday, March 22, was the resignation...
Both Greg Drescher and Ron Llewellyn announced their resignations, effective Saturday, March 23, following a second EDA Board of Directors closed session of Friday, March 22....
On the job for just a couple of months, new Northern Virginia 4-H Education Center Director Jeremy Stanford approached the Front Royal Town Council on Monday,...
Janice Butler Shanks of Front Royal, Virginia has announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination for Clerk of the Warren County Circuit Court upon the election...
How the Town of Front Royal should react to the news of an abrupt change of plans at the Royal Phoenix Business Park site – news...
FRONT ROYAL – Nearly four years ago, on June 12, 2015 former Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) announced an economic development agreement that would bring ITFederal, LLC...
In business other than explaining rising costs of service causing Town electric rates to go up and moving toward covering those expenses, on Monday, March 11,...
During Monday’s citizen-town staff question-and-answer on Town electric utility rates, it was explained that increases already reflected in the Power Cost Adjustment (PCA) line item on...
The Town of Front Royal held a Q&A Forum on Monday, March 11, 2019 from 6:00 PM – 7:00PM in the Warren County Government Center Board...
With a public hearing and first reading vote on adjustments to Front Royal’s electric service rates on its meeting agenda of Monday, March 11, town staff...