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Posted on Apr 5, 4:00 PM
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As Clarke County was being created from the eastern portion of Frederick County, the remaining county map began to look decentralized and awkward. This fact would inadvertently aid the cause of residents in and around Front Royal who wanted their own county. 
Posted on Mar 23, 12:00 AM
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Once the area that would become Warren County was divided between Shenandoah County and Frederick County, area residents attended the courthouse closest to them.
Front Royal residents appear to have used Winchester for the most part, and as a result became some of the earliest advocates for the creation of a new county to serve their needs.
Posted on Jan 24, 12:55 PM
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A dynamic and beloved neighborhood pet is put to rest, though his legacy prances on.
Posted on Jan 12, 12:00 AM
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Following a brief period of land speculation, roughly from 1727-1732, the site that would become Front Royal gained its greatest early boost: a ferry.
Posted on Jan 3, 12:00 AM
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On the Saturday following Christmas, the called-for snow had not begun when I let the dogs out. However, before all the coffee was finished, it had. It moved in with a low, heavy sky that obscured Powell Mountain and slowly the individual flakes covered the tops of tree limbs, the boxwoods, the shoveled drive, everything, to give Red Hill a new look of softness and peace.
Posted on Dec 27, 12:00 AM
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This morning, Mickey, the male beagle did not wake us in the cold dark wanting to go out. For whatever reason he slept in until the first light of day was breaking over Powell Mountain.
Posted on Dec 19, 5:47 PM
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By Roger Barbee In thinking of the carnage in Newtown, I recalled a science fiction short story by Robert Sheckley. In "The Gun Without a Bang," Sheckley tells the story of Dixon, an astronaut who sees armaments as the way to victory. In Dixon's mind, the winning of the American West was nothing but a struggle between bows and arrows and the Colt. Dixon is sent to explore a small planet, and is given a new weapon to try out. His new weapon does not fire a bullet, but disintegrates matter in a cone-shaped flare. It makes no noise, but kills silently. Shortly after landing on the planet, Dixon is set upon by wild animals like monkeys. He uses his new weapon, but in doing so discovers that without a noise, the attacking animals do not sense the danger. In his panic, he mistakenly disables his spaceship and its communication hardware. He is stranded and surrounded by animals that have no fear of his disintegrator. Sometime later, a rescue operation is sent to see what has happened to Dixon on the isolated planet. He is found alive, rather well in fact, and using the disintegrator as a hammer to drive...
Posted on Dec 13, 5:40 PM
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Caroling, carriage rides, holiday goodies, dancing and more will be on tap Saturday during the Holly Jolly Old Town Celebration in Winchester.
Posted on Nov 26, 12:32 PM
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A student called the other day needing help with checking out a possible car for purchase. He is young and doesn't have a lot of experience buying cars. We talked about the thought process necessary to keep from going helter skelter looking at every car listed in the paper or sitting on the car lot.
Posted on Apr 13, 2:59 PM
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Fans of ground cover tout it as an attractive, environmentally friendly alternative to the quest for a perfect lawn and assaults on air and water quality that come from fertilizer chemicals and gas-powered mowers.
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