Friend and colleague Malcolm Barr Sr. turned 90, Friday, March 10, 2023, leading this writer to promise a one-day moratorium on personal complaints about aging! A...
In an April 14 press release from the Humane Society of Warren County, the Memorial Day weekend dedication of a “War Dogs Garden of Remembrance” at...
The Humane Society of Warren County (HSWC) catered an informal party, including guided tours of the premises, to celebrate the opening of Front Royal’s first spay...
Do you know children who are age 10-15 and love animals? Have their family check out our Junior Volunteer Program. Junior volunteers help with socializing cats,...
The Humane Society of Warren County (HSWC) will open its new downtown clinic in early June, ahead, way ahead, of its original schedule, it was announced...
The Humane Society of Warren County “Polar Plunge” delayed from February 20 due to “too-polar” weather here in northwestern Virginia has been rescheduled to Saturday, March...
Two major events, one to make money, the other to spend, were launched this month by the Humane Society of Warren County (HSWC) while a look...
A visitor to Front Royal last weekend (September 18-19) could provide a footnote to the history of our town. A guest of ours, Steve Herman, now...
The Humane Society of Warren County (HSWC) worked long, hard and imaginatively to re-organize one of its major annual fundraisers appropriately named “Barks & Bags”, using...
When the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter Executive Director Meghan Bowers boasted of an upcoming fundraiser “as the biggest yard sale in (Humane Society of Warren County)...
Looking for a deal? Try the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter site on Progress Drive off Shenandoah Shores Road this weekend, July 17-18, 10-4 p.m. Management says...
“Yappy Hour” — a fun fundraiser for the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter – returns to downtown Front Royal’s East Main Street courtesy ViNoVa Tapas Bar and...
“It was starting to seem hopeless for these babes as they were overlooked day in and day out for so long.” So wrote Julia Wagner Animal...
One of Royal Examiner’s contributing writers, former Associated Press journalist Malcolm Barr Sr., was honored at his 87th birthday party, Tuesday, March 10, by the...
The Polar Plunge – a cold-water dip popular in many parts of the country but the first fundraiser of its kind in Warren County – is...
The year 2019 at Front Royal’s Julia Wagner Animal Shelter was a busy one in terms of intake – 1,216 animals from dogs and cats to...
“Yappy Hour”, a long-running weekly fundraiser for Front Royal’s Julia Wagner Animal Shelter, will celebrate the holidays on Friday, December 20, at ViNoVa Tapas Bar and...
A popular event of yesteryear that, over two years raised up to $12,000 for the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter will be revived Friday, September 6, at...
The Julia Wagner Animal Shelter in Front Royal came within a whisker or two of its target on Saturday, August 17, by adopting out 26 animals...
Saturday, August 17 is the day that the Humane Society of Warren County (HSWC) will join similar organizations around the globe in a massive animal adoption...
The Julia Wagner Animal Shelter in Front Royal has a busy time ahead of it this summer, including the popular “Waggin’ for Dragons” boat race on...
Dragon boat races return to the Shenandoah River on Saturday, August 3, and are expected to raise at least $16,000 in entry fees for Front Royal’s...
The Humane Society of Warren County (HSWC) continued its upward trajectory at its second-largest annual fundraiser last weekend, attracting a record crowd to its “Barks &...
A welcome and unexpected cash award arrived at the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter just a few days ahead of the annual meeting of the Humane Society...
A plan by the Humane Society of Warren County (HSWC) to adopt out the surviving 28 dogs and cats seized by County Animal Control following a...
There were almost as many dogs as people at what amounted to a revival of “Yappy Hour” which enjoyed a two-year run at a Main Street...
Aimed at “stopping the rumor mill” Humane Society of Warren County (HSWC) president Ellen Aders called an “open house” at the “What Matters Open Space” meeting...
The search for a new executive director for the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter in Front Royal continues as the Warren County Humane Society board of directors,...
On November 15, Boone met us with an unanticipated leap on to a conference room table, then gave this interviewer a celebratory smooch to the amazement of...
The hunt goes on for a new executive director for the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter in Front Royal, according to the fall issue of “Shelter Tales,”...