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...
Ophelia, a black miniature pug, has died at the age of 12 years. She was deaf when my wife, Carol and I adopted her from the Julia...
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...
In a small, rural Virginia town 70 miles west of the nation’s capital the annual Memorial Day ceremony honors, not only those people who have served...
On January 8, 1969, as president of the Wire Service Guild, the union representing employees of The Associated Press, I stepped out from the foyer of...
Neville Barr, a frequent visitor to Front Royal and the Warren County community, shared a rare, perhaps unique, photograph of his Christmas visitor this year. For...
The Morgan Ford bridge crossing the Shenandoah River north of town was closed again over the pre-holiday weekend due to high water over the roadway approaches....
I lost my best friend about a week ago. She was Pola, our handsome Siberian husky, who we rescued, and fell in love with, four years...
With the Washington Capitals vying to win the first Stanley Cup in franchise history, two intrepid Cap fanatics drove into a fired up nation’s capital from...
As it always is, the emotional theme of Front Royal’s sixth annual and now municipally-sponsored event was sacrifice in service to one’s country – and the...
Like many others in Warren and neighboring counties, I’m avidly watching Ken Burns’ “Vietnam” series on the local public television channels. Avidly because I was a...
Contemplating an out-of-town trip this weekend, I checked two weather forecasts and, whoa! The Washington Post was cautioning the metropolitan area to prepare for major floods...
On Sunday, July 2 at dawn, an earth tremor dumped hundreds of tons of glacial ice and rock into southeast Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord into which...
Tourism has boomed during the past few years in Iceland, but this land within the Arctic Circle has not yet become a regular destination for most...
From June 7 to June 10, our contributing writer Malcolm Barr Sr. (above) was in London, his home town, where he saw what appeared to be a...
Why an online news service in Front Royal when there are three newspapers serving the area; and why are you contributing to its local news report,...
Our own representative on Capitol Hill, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA 6th), brought shame to himself, his state, district, and his Party on the...
