Mayor Chris Holloway was absent from the January 25 Front Royal Town Council meeting, due to illness according to Vice-Mayor Lori Athey Cockrell, who chaired the...
Recent newspaper accounts report Front Royal work crews were out trying to find out where a strange odor was coming from. – All they had to...
A 4-member Planning Commission met Wednesday, January 20th at the Warren County Government Center (WCGC). Joseph McFadden has resigned as a result of his election to...
A wide-ranging, hour-plus work session discussion took an unexpected turn Tuesday evening as the Front Royal Town Council reached the “Open Discussion” portion of its agenda...
Front Royal Clerk of Town Council and Executive Assistant to the Town Manager Tina Pressley has informed us that her initial citing of Scott Lloyd as...
Other than fend off angry public feedback on the appointment of Jacob Meza at their January 11 regular meeting, there were action items and other business...
Wait a minute! What’s that you say? Controversy in the Town Council? That’s hard to believe. Cronyism? Charging the Town Council with cronyism is like charging...
Negative public reaction to the appointment and seating of Jacob Meza by his four fellow county Republican Committee council members and council’s response to that reaction...
Acting on behalf of one of what is believed to be three other candidates than the one appointed to fill the vacated Front Royal Town Council...
Front Royal, VA (January 11, 2021) – Monday, January 4, 2021 – Town Council appointed former Councilman Jacob Meza to fill the unexpired term of newly elected...
On Friday, January 8, this reporter contacted former Interim Town Manager and Interim Mayor Matt Tederick about rumors circulating that he had been appointed “assistant town...
Following two Closed Sessions, one beginning at 6 p.m. to open the Monday, January 4, 2021 work session with interviews of candidates for appointment to now-Mayor...
The Town Council has selected Jacob Meza to fill the unexpired term of Mayor Chris Holloway. The Town Council accepted applications for the unexpired term and...
Several days ago, Mr. Bianchini wrote another accurate yet sad summation of another fiasco. No, it wasn’t the Afton Inn fiasco; No, it wasn’t the Police...
The Afton Inn is one of the most historic and iconic buildings in Front Royal and Warren County. Dating to post-Civil War reconstruction, circa 1868, it...
Royal Examiner has received verification from one member of the Town of Front Royal’s Urban Forestry Advisory Commission (UFAC) that the current four-member commission board has...
Greetings and a Call to Action from the Save Happy Creek Coalition. We wish there were no need for our existence, but apparently, the Town Council...
A town manager who left his previous employment under a cloud and apparent threat to be fired over a dispute with his council over “his management...
A Town Planning Commission work session Wednesday night to review and discuss a package provided by the Planning Staff. Immediately on opening, Town Attorney Doug Napier...
In other business at its October 19 meeting, by a 5-0 vote, Meza absent, the Front Royal Town Council approved a Fiscal Year-2021 Budget Amendment allowing...
In a final agenda item before adjourning to closed session Monday night, October 19, the Front Royal Town Council passed a Resolution urging regional medical provider...
The October 5th, Monday evening Front Royal Town Council work session was sandwiched by two closed sessions. A hint that something of import might come from...
On Wednesday night, September 30, for the first time all candidates in the November Town election showed up at the same time, in the same place...
Friends and Neighbors, I hesitated to hit send on this, but I strongly believe in fairness. At a time when our Town and County are experiencing...
Less than a week after its September 23 press conference during which the County and EDA boards were vilified as obstructions to good-faith negotiations in resolving...
On Monday, September 28, at its second regular and third total meeting – fourth if you count the September 23 press conference announcing a pending bank...
Meet the Candidates is a series on the Royal Examiner where we will sit down with each candidate in our local election and discuss issues that...
Meet the Candidates is a series on the Royal Examiner where we will sit down with each candidate in our local election and discuss issues that...
Meet the Candidates is a series on the Royal Examiner where we will sit down with each candidate in our local election and discuss issues that...
Meet the Candidates is a series on the Royal Examiner where we will sit down with each candidate in our local election and discuss issues that...