Following Thursday morning’s announcement of the filing of civil litigation against the Town of Front Royal to recover nearly $9-million dollars spent to construct the new...
The following is my rebuttal to the Front Royal Town Council’s insistence that they do not have a Moral Obligation to finance and pay the debt...
With the distribution arrangement for a federal-state, multimillion-dollar coronavirus pandemic relief funding package on the line at dueling 7 p.m. special meetings across the Town of...
During the August 24th open town council work session discussion of its options in creating a new unilateral Front Royal Economic Development Authority (FR-EDA) to work...
Following adjournment to a work session, closed session to discuss its litigation with the existing Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority (EDA), the Front Royal Town...
A week after being approached at its August 10th meeting by two East Main Street business people, Kelly Walker (The Studio: A Place for Learning) and...
Following Town Attorney Doug Napier’s reading of the Roberts Rules of Order conditions on public and member conduct in critiquing proposed municipal business and actions, the...
The cover sheet for Monday evening’s (Aug. 10) Front Royal Town Council meeting contains an addition in BOLD text under item number 5, “Petitions and/or Correspondence...
Just when suicide seems like a viable option to extricate yourself from a time/space loop of consideration of municipal government minutiae that you see no way...
In an unexpected and somewhat stunning development in an added agenda item to conclude Tuesday’s Warren County Board of Supervisors Work Session, it was revealed that...
On Monday, July 13, the Front Royal Town Council took several actions, for better or worse, that will shape several key future functions in coming months...
It seems the $24,500 the Front Royal Town Council spent to have a private-sector executive search firm seek out qualified municipal management candidates has been taxpayer...
In the wake of work session discussion Monday evening, July 6, the Front Royal Town Council reached a five-member consensus, Meza absent, to commit necessary funds...
At its special meeting of June 30th the Front Royal Town Council approved a new contract extending the service of Matt Tederick beyond his previous contract’s...
It looks like the Town of Front Royal’s interim manager may get an extension to his employment contract, which expires today, the final day of the...
According to an agenda summary distributed to the media for tonight’s June 30th Special Meeting, the Front Royal Town Council is poised to vote to approve...
Like a riverboat gambler on the prowl, on Monday night, June 22, the Front Royal Town Council ignored repeated public pleas not to burden town taxpayers...
Dear Editor, It seems that my speech to the Front Royal Town Council Monday night questioning the Town’s intent to continue to explore creating it’s own...
What a difference a week makes, as the dominant tone of aggressive hostility about how federal CARES (Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Securities) money would be...
I am disgusted with the behavior of our Town Council at last Monday’s (June 8) meeting. We have a $12-million dollar deficit owed to the EDA...
On Monday night, June 8, the Front Royal Town Council moved quickly through an agenda featuring second readings of a number of previously thoroughly discussed budgetary...
If the Town wants to play its own “I, Me, Mine” (with a songwriting nod to late Beatle George Harrison) economic recovery game with its “equitable”...
At a Monday night, June 1st work session the Front Royal Town Council wrestled with the legal and financial dynamics of a number of matters, several...
At its May 26th meeting the Front Royal Town Council approved an appropriation of just over $48.6 million to fund its Fiscal Year 2021 budget. The...
As noted in our lead story on the Front Royal Town Council’s Tuesday, May 26 meeting, public hearings on two ordinance amendment proposals drew some discussion...
Early in its May 26th, post-Memorial Day, Tuesday evening meeting, the Front Royal Town Council got a glowingly positive report on the Memorial Day weekend downtown...
Virginia law allows “at will” employment, meaning a person can be fired with or without cause. Front Royal government staff are “at will” employees but the...
A decision on a one-on-one verbal confrontation between Mayor Eugene Tewalt and Councilman Jacob Meza on who had the authority to make committee appointments, the mayor...
It never ends with the incompetence of our Town Council and Interim Town Manager. I will exclude Councilman Thompson on the waterline issue as she voted...
The Town Council and the Interim Town Manager once again went behind closed doors (at Monday’s Council meeting of April 27) to discuss personnel issues. This...