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EDA in Focus7 years ago

EDA Investigation, Part 5: Local businessman John Costello is interviewed by the FRPD

FRONT ROYAL – Those Royal Examiner readers and viewers who have been following the EDA Break-in Series will notice that this one – part 5 –...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

EDA civil complaint details allegations surrounding key projects

While attorneys for defendants in the EDA civil litigation have focused on what they contend are vagaries in details of the cited misdirection of EDA assets,...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

EDA Investigation, Part 4: EDA board member Ron Llewellyn is interviewed by FRPD

FRONT ROYAL – Despite a thorough initial investigation by the Front Royal Police Department the alleged break-in at the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority office...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

Tran credited McDonald with saving ITFederal project – but what was saved?

Contacted by phone on April 20, ITFederal principal Truc “Curt” Tran said he was limited in what he could say about his plans for his 30-acre...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

Busy week for EDA: Appointments, Town FOIA, director hunt, bond issue

On Monday morning, April 15, at the first of two special meetings of the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority Board of Directors called this week...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

EDA Investigation: FRPD’s initial interview of Jennifer McDonald, Part 2

In this second segment of the initial interview on June 15, 2017 with Front Royal Police Department Investigators Landin Waller and Crystal Cline, McDonald pushes forward...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

County breaks silence on EDA functions, oversight and alleged criminality

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...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

Mayor admits: we ‘drank the Kool-Aid’ in apology to former councilwoman

“The report of the mayor: Bébhinn, please accept my sincere apology. I was never under the intention of quieting you or putting words in your mouth....
EDA in Focus7 years ago

Council confronted over past protectionism of EDA and its chief executive

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...
Local Government7 years ago

Divided council passes first reading of 2.9-cent real estate tax hike

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...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

Sheriff, ITFed principal Tran, Donnie Poe named with McDonald in EDA civil suit

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...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

No ITFederal at Royal Phoenix, no need for infrastructure either?

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...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

Follow the money: EDA-ITFederal financial roadmap tricky to navigate

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...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

UPDATE: Tran says ITFederal is not opening and it is an EB-5 Visa project

Truc “Curt” Tran has finally confirmed what many have long suspected: ITFederal will not open in Front Royal on the 30-acre tract of land he purchased...
EDA in Focus7 years ago

Town, ITFed’s Tran remain at odds over drainage system costs

An impasse between the Town of Front Royal and ITFederal principal Truc “Curt” Tran over financial responsibility for installation of a drainage line through Tran’s Royal...
ITFederal8 years ago

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...
EDA in Focus8 years ago

Council authorizes sewer fund reserves to pay for business park pump station

In its final agenda item of April 16, the Front Royal Town Council agreed to a staff recommendation to utilize Sewer Fund reserves to pay for...
EDA in Focus8 years ago

Drescher, McDonald address EDA processes, legal investigations

FRONT ROYAL – At the February 20 meeting of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, Mark Egger, father of former Front Royal Councilwoman Bébhinn Egger, made...
EDA in Focus8 years ago

Mayor urges serious movement on Royal Phoenix pumping station

“We need to get off the pot and move forward with this,” Mayor Hollis Tharpe told the Front Royal Town Council at a February 5 work...
EDA in Focus8 years ago

Town hesitant on infrastructure costs for Royal Phoenix Business Park

The Front Royal Town Council continued to play “Who’s on First” with delays to the start of construction of the ITFederal facility at the former Avtex...
EDA in Focus9 years ago

OPINION: Is Pennsylvania EDA experience a forerunner of our own?

Opening my Sunday issue of the Washington Post over my morning coffee March 5, I bolted upright from my cushions as I read a business section,...
EDA in Focus9 years ago

EDA announces changes to ITFederal’s Royal Phoenix agreement

Following a closed meeting on Friday, February 24, the Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Authority announced extensions and alterations to its deed of trust contractual agreement...
EDA in Focus9 years ago

Royal Examiner responds to Berdyck denial of Tran e-mail

On January 20th and 21st respectively, this reporter’s Opinion piece “In Defense of Jennifer McDonald and the EPA” and follow-up story “Superfund ‘watchdog’ reached out to...
EDA in Focus9 years ago

Superfund ‘watchdog’ reached out to ITFed owner prior to attack blog

Less than a month prior to his circulation of an aggressively personal blog attack on EDA Executive Director Jennifer McDonald, accompanied by corresponding swipes at the...
EDA in Focus9 years ago

In defense of Jennifer McDonald and the EPA

I for one was somewhat taken aback when I saw an online blog identified as SuperfundResearch.org widely circulated in this area on January 18. The blog...
EDA in Focus9 years ago

EDA Executive Director addresses questions on ITFederal process as site work begins at Royal Phoenix

We asked Front Royal-Warren County Economic Development Director Jennifer McDonald about Councilwoman Bébhinn Egger’s original line of questioning about ITFederal at the October 24, 2016 Council...
ITFederal9 years ago

Site work begins at ITFederal’s Royal Phoenix property
ITFederal9 years ago

If public discussion of ITFederal is counterproductive – Who is to blame?

Readers contribute to the ITFederal discussion – Our Editorial Board decided to post this portion of an exchange in the “Comments” section to our Story “Council...
EDA in Focus9 years ago

Council bids farewells – continues sparring over ITFederal

At its final meeting of 2016 (December 12), the Front Royal Town Council bid adieu to two retiring members, Mayor Tim Darr and Councilman Bret Hrbek,...
EDA in Focus9 years ago

Councilman Bébhinn Egger issues statement addressing accusations

FRONT ROYAL– Councilman Bébhinn Egger issued a written statement Wednesday evening to local media, responding to assertions made at the Nov. 28 Town Council meeting. Her...

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