Front Royal News

Sunday, November 8, 2009 By Susan Thompson Front Royal - Without further ado Here's the story brought to light, in full living color.

State highway officials want to replace a faulty bridge on U.S. 340 that has reached the end of its life span.

A man charged with multiple felonies in connection with a drug and weapons ring at Skyline Motel in Front Royal has been appointed a new attorney.

A According to the Human Society of the United States , there are approximately 74.8 million owned dogs and 88.3 million owned cats in the United States.

View larger image A group of teens meets at Bowman Library in Stephens City recently for a meeting of the Young Writers Program.

The National Zoo says two older Scimitar-horned oryx, which are extinct in the wild, have died.

National standards for health data exchange permit too much variability and must be tightened, a family practitioner told a federal advisory board on Oct.

A Maryland man who was accused of stealing money from the register of a local department store last year has pleaded guilty to one of two charges he was indicted on in July.

Town Manager J. Michael Graham is asking other town and Warren County officials to consider forming a joint tax abatement program that would provide exemptions for rehabilitated commercial and residential structures.

Tea time is over, says community activist Tim Ratigan. Ratigan, 44, who calls himself a conservative American with traditional family beliefs, is the founder of Front Royal-based Call for Action America.

A Fairfax man has been indicted by a Warren County Circuit Court grand jury on charges that broke into a sporting goods store in February.

From left, Emily Heflin, of Winchester, LaMishia Allen, of Winchester, Stacey Graham, of Bluemont, and Susan Warren Utley of Front Royal, meet at Samuels Public Library in Front Royal for their writing group, Literary Geniuses.

Warren County General District Court Judge W. Dale Houff sent a strong message on Wednesday that jail violence will not be tolerated.

Local and federal authorities have seized almost 1,400 weapons and 15 boxes of documents from a Front Royal pawn shop.

The Warren County Planning Commission has endorsed a U.S. Postal Service contractor's request to use property in the Stephens Industrial Park as a motor freight terminal.

The Town Council has unanimously approved a conservation easement that will preserve about 109 acres of the former 121-acre tract on Strasburg Road where Wal-Mart had considered building a Supercenter.

Don Francis Simonpietri, the owner of Simonpietri's Pawn Shop, located at 528 S. Royal Ave., remains free on his own recognizance after being arrested on Wednesday on two charges of selling a firearm to a convicted felon.

Front Royal residents on the municipal water system are being asked to observe mandatory water conservation measures due to reduced river water flow.

A town couple say their concerns about illegal drugs in their neighborhood have been heightened following the arrest of three men at the Skyline Resort Motel for selling heroin, PCP and firearms.

Barb Savidge, of Linden, ladles chocolate syrup into a bowl of goodies for Claudia Sanders, 16, of Frederick, Md., at the Festival of Leaves in Front Royal on Saturday.