Front Royal’s downtown gazebo will come alive with color, music, and community spirit on Saturday, July 26, as Front Royal Pride returns for its second annual celebration. The event, running from 10 a ...

Last week, our nation seemed to split across a metaphorical fault line over the “Big Beautiful Bill.” One side called the measure a masterpiece while the other condemned it as the downfall of our ...

We’ll state the obvious. The recent Warren County Board of Supervisor’s (BOS) statement regarding Samuels Public Library (SPL) is full of inaccuracies and misinformation (in addition to being arrogant ...

The press release from the majority of county supervisors that appeared in the Royal Examiner reads a lot better when you change the words “smart person” to the words “willfully ignorant person” all ...

For the majority of citizens not quite packing the Warren County Government Center (WCGC) main meeting room on a rainy, thunder-stormy day headed into evening, what they were there for would take a ...

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After listening to your comments last night, it seems to me that you don’t fully understand what “public library” means. It does not mean that is is controlled by a government. It means the following ...

Public libraries have been part of communities since the Roman Empire. In the United States, Benjamin Franklin donated books to a Massachusetts town, which became the first public library in the US in ...

On a spring evening inside Samuels Public Library, chairs filled with eager listeners and flowers rested on white-laced tables—a fitting setting for a presentation steeped in history, resilience, and ...

My family recently visited Front Royal and had the pleasure of exploring the Samuels Public Library. Everyone, including all the kids and grandkids, loved the place. The grandkids were especially ...

Cameron Williams, candidate for the Warren County Board of Supervisors in the Happy Creek District, presented his platform to members of the Warren County Republican Committee on May 22. Speaking for ...

A new conflict has emerged between Warren County officials and Samuels Public Library following the library’s recent denial of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by the County ...