The people of Warren County have spoken, loudly and repeatedly: fund our library. Yet four members of the Board of Supervisors have chosen to ignore the...
Warren County citizens will soon welcome a new county administrator, selected by the four board members of the apocalypse. Given recent decisions and actions made by...
In March, the untrained 4 Warren County supervisors voted not to renew a funding agreement with Samuels Public Library. At that time, Supervisor Jamieson said, “There...
As someone who has done her fair share of historical tourism over the past few decades, I was very excited to hear Dr. Jamieson bring it...
Update to my ‘Letter to the Editor’ last week: But it is just a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors has now...
On August 14, 2025, local musicians, comedians, and artists will gather for Rock for a Cause—a benefit concert in support of the Save Samuels Library PAC....
I am writing to implore religious leaders in the Shenandoah Valley to use their influence to encourage their congregations to demand of our elected leaders an...
Whenever you are out in Southeast Frederick, Front Royal, or Clarke County (Berryville) and you see four people together, usually a 5th person will join, and...
When the house right next to mine became an Airbnb, I thought, “How bad could it be?” Well, I found out it was REALLY bad. The...
The Warren County Board of Supervisors is to be commended for conducting negotiations with the board of directors of Samuel’s Public Library in a thorough and...
Samuels Public Library and Warren County, Virginia, grew up together. The people here, generation to generation, have enjoyed and benefited from their library over many decades....
I watch an hour of news every evening. The bad news always comes first in journalism. There is a saying, if it bleeds it leads. The...
I live in a neighborhood like many others—houses and yards, driveways and fences, a patchwork of tidy lawns in Front Royal, Virginia. But if you look...
Read really close to the page. What follows might be contagious and you may want some for yourself. It happens. It happened to me. This is...
Good or bad, right or wrong, left or right – we all make choices, we take sides. We choose what news to believe, who to blame on...
I found it hard to understand why Library Systems & Services (LS&S) suddenly walked away from free money. When they were first approached, a quick search...
The recent flooding in Texas—most notably at Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River, where young campers and counselors lost their lives—leaves my soul aching. It brought...
In response to the recent Warren County Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting held on July 1, 2025, in which Supervisor Jamieson went on a lengthy tirade...
Make no mistake that pictures do say 1000 words, or maybe 10,000 in this case. The boredom clearly kicked in with BOS Chair Butler and Rep....
I’ve been a resident of Warren County for just over eight years. I live in the Happy Creek district (news to me!) I discovered this fact...
We’ve got enough to deal with in Warren County without people like John Massoud trying to turn neighbors against each other. Most of us out here...
To the citizens of Warren County, Rich Jamieson sat from the dais and read from a prepared statement for almost 25 minutes—a statement packed with lies....
If what Eric Belk and Dr. Jamieson are saying is true, that laws are being violated and criminal actions are going on, my question to both...
Well, there I was, once again having to spend a long Tuesday night showing up to support Samuels Public Library against the attacks of the Warren...
We were all hoping for a full return to the Samuels Library Public/Private partnership at the BOS meeting on Tuesday. Instead, we heard a 24 minute,...
As many of you know by now, in the New York City Mayoral race, avowed communist Zohran Mamdani is the Democrat nominee. Most Democrats and some...
After listening to your comments last night, it seems to me that you don’t fully understand what “public library” means. It does not mean that is...
It’s pretty rich of Rich to use George Orwell’s 1984 as his theme for comments last night at the Board of Supervisors meeting. He opted to...
An old proverb warns, “The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” It’s a haunting metaphor for...
Since his return to office in January, President Trump has called on Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell to cut interest rates, which Powell and the Fed’s...