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Registation opens for Senior Olympics
Online registration opened July 1 for the 2024 Northern Virginia Senior Olympics. There are 83 events during 15 days of competitions, Sept. 14-29. Events include sports, such as power walking, swimming, and pickleball, and also non-athletic events, such as Scrabble and jigsaw puzzles. Participants must be 50 years of age...
Town of Front Royal implements voluntary water conservation request
The Town of Front Royal announced that they are officially joining other Northern Virginia Communities in water conservation efforts. The town observed July 1 that the daily stream flow rate of the South Fork of the Shenandoah River has dropped significantly. The town is only permitted water withdrawal under certain...
Town Planning Commission Agenda Items Advance Quickly to Town Council
The lion’s share of the session was spent hearing a presentation from Planning Director and Zoning Administrator Lauren Kopishke on a potential rezoning at 1321 Happy Creek Road. To recap on a Royal Examiner article that covered this item at the commission’s June 26 meeting, the owner of what is now called Marshall’s Glen desires to rezone the property from R-S Suburban Residential to R-1 Residential District. This rezoning would allow the owner, Rappahannock HC, LLC, to build at higher density on this forty-three-acre property. Instead of building sixty-one single-family detached dwelling units by right, developer Chris Hornung and company could build as many as one hundred four, still by right, but larger in number by being in an R-1 zone.
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