Front Royal plans Rivermont fire station replacement
Warren County officials will build a new state funded Rivermont Volunteer Fire Department station at Front Royal Warren County Airport within two years. The project costs about 1.2 million dollars with 200 thousand dollars for rear wall repairs. The repairs may rise if further problem details emerge. The Rivermont and Fort Portsmouth departments will not consolidate. A board hearing in May addressed this option. The current station will be shored up and studied while in use for two years.
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Front Royal
Rivermont
Fortsmouth
Board of Supervisors
Royal Warren County Airport
Doug Stanley
Parkway work to start soon for Leach Run Parkway
Front Royal Warren County Economic Development Authority Executive Director Jennifer McDonald told town council the Leach Run Parkway project could begin as early as next week if paperwork from Branch Highways Inc. is timely. The two part contract totals about 13.2 million for road work and a waterline, with the town paying and county plus Virginia DOT reimbursing. The contract falls short of the estimated 15.5 million project cost.
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Leach Run Parkway
Warren County Economic Development Authority
Jennifer McDonald
Branch Highways Inc
Manassas
Virginia Department of Transportation
Branch
Lodging tax hearing OK'd with no date set
Front Royal town council approved a public hearing for discussion only on lowering the lodging tax from 6 percent to 2 percent to align with Warren County. An attempt to set a hearing date was defeated. Councilman Bret W. Hrbek led the push for public input on the tax cut.
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Front Royal
Bret W. Hrbek
Warren County
Hrbek
River Valley Festival Returns to Shenandoah Valley Scene
The second annual River Valley Festival along the South Fork of the Shenandoah River near VFW Post 1860 on North Royal Avenue celebrates beer wine and music this weekend. Founded by Christendom College graduates who studied at Gregory the Great Academy in Pennsylvania the event promises a festive community getaway.
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Shenandoah Valley
River Valley
Shenandoah River
VFW
North Royal Avenue
Christendom College
Gregory the Great Academy
Pennsylvania
Page AG
VFW Post 1860
Charistendom College
Warren County switches to paper ballots for 2015 election
In Warren County voters will use paper ballots fed into a scanner after WINVote touch screens were decertified. Registrar Carol Tobin notes voters must fill the box for their choice and an illustrated guide will be posted. Absentee voting already uses scanning machines, and Otterburn polling shifts to the Warren County Airport terminal building.
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Warren County
Carol Tobin
Tobin
Otterburn
Rivermont
Voting deadlines listed for November election
Dates outline key voting deadlines: registration by October 13, absentee ballot request by October 27, in person ballot by October 31, and Election Day on November 3.
Monument marks Mosby Rangers executions anniversary at Prospect Hill
On September 23, 1899 about 5000 gathered on Prospect Hill to view a monument honoring Col John S Mosbys Rangers and a local teen executed by Union soldiers during the Civil War. The commemorative ceremony was led by a Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp and the Warren Rifles Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Prospect Hill Cemetery, 116 years after the monument was erected by Mosby era veterans.
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Prospect Hill
John S. Mosby
Rangers
John S. Mos
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Warren Rifles
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Mosby
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