This year's Veterans Build Week of Service will focus on making critical repairs to the homes of 10 veteran families. An opening ceremony for the annual Fayetteville Area Habitat for Humanity …
This year’s Holly Day Fair, a Fayetteville family tradition that’s drawn generations of families eager to get an early start on Christmas shopping, runs through Sunday at the Crown …
At its meeting Wednesday, the City Council Policy Committee agreed upon recommendations for Fayetteville’s governing body, addressing recent debates over procedure for public comments at …
The Salvation Army of the Sandhills Region will open a White Flag shelter overnight on Wednesday, with early-morning low temperatures projected to be at or below freezing. The shelter is located …
Veteran Fayetteville journalist Paul Woolverton, a mainstay in the newsroom of The Fayetteville Observer for the past 30 years, is joining an expanding CityView news team as senior reporter.
John Malzone remembers how downtown once was on the day after Thanksgiving. He shudders at the thought. Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the characters of novelist Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” circa 1843, would transform the downtown Fayetteville streets a year later with the inaugural “A Dickens Holiday,” replete with Victorian costumes, Christmas choral groups, downtown merchants opening their shops in holiday decor and folks flocking to the Market House to welcome the yuletide season.
Forty-five people have been killed in Fayetteville this year, officially surpassing the 2022 homicide count of 44.
This year marks the 27th for the Cumberland County Veterans Day Parade, an annual procession in downtown Fayetteville honoring veterans. With increased involvement from Fort Liberty soldiers this year, organizers say the aim of 2023 celebrations is to “bridge the gap” between local veterans and Fayetteville’s military community.
Trick or treat! Even NICU babies were caught up in the spirit of Halloween on Tuesday. The infants in the neonatal intensive care unit at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center were dressed in Halloween costumes provided by Preemies of the Carolinas.
CityView readers: beginning tomorrow, you’ll see a brand-new format for the CityView Today newsletter you’ve been receiving from us.
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part story looking at tenants living in rental units — owned and managed by United Management — who have alleged a multitude of …
Inside Cumberland County’s Cooperative Extension Office on East Mountain Drive is a small, well-decorated office reminiscent of an elementary school classroom. Replete with an abundance of plant- and garden-themed posters lining the walls, there’s also a decorated cork board and plenty of tri-fold displays.
Though United Management is now taking steps to increase public safety measures, the disconnect between senior occupants and staff at United Management properties has come to a head in recent weeks.
The N.C. Department of Transportation has awarded a $2.7 million contract to convert two intersections in north Fayetteville to roundabouts. The circular designs will be constructed on Rosehill Road at Tamarack Drive and Landau Drive, according to a news release.
They’re coming down the homestretch, these folks who want to lead this city. Just 10 days left before the Nov. 7 general election that will tell us who will be our mayor and Fayetteville City Council members in six of nine district races.
Cumberland Community Foundation has welcomed four new members to its board of directors. They are retired Army Sgt. Maj. Jabbar Surles, Emily Schaefer, Brenda Sparks and Mac Healy.
CityView’s Bill Horner III spoke to Jennifer Barnhill about the state of military families and about her work in that area. She’s a Navy spouse and a mother of three, so Jennifer Barnhill understands the plight and the struggles military families face.
Three men were shot to death within 24 hours in separate incidents Friday afternoon and Saturday, according to the Fayetteville Police Department. The shootings were reported on Murchison Road, Pamalee Drive and Tamarack Drive.
The suspect wanted for the first-degree murder of Crystal Michelle Loughran that occurred in the area of Fieldcrest Street and Cedric Street on Oct. 11 has been apprehended after barricading …
When some people think of the library, they most likely think about a quiet place filled with books. While we still appreciate a calm environment with many wonderful books that can be checked out, where everyone feels welcome, there is more to the library than books and silence. The library can be a place of fun and entertainment.
Five of the 15 candidates on the Nov. 7 ballot for Fayetteville City Council — as well as both mayoral candidates — gathered Thursday for a forum hosted by advocacy groups Cape Fear Indivisible, Organizing Against Racism: Cumberland County, Common Cause N.C. and Fayetteville Freedom For All at Smith Recreation Center.
Gladys Hill was honored at Monday’s night’s Fayetteville City Council meeting with a proclamation from Mayor Mitch Colvin to recognize her community work of selling pink light bulbs each October to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
On Friday, members of the Fayetteville Police Department’s Violent Crime Apprehension Team received information on the location of a wanted subject for first degree murder being at a residence …
Terry Sanford’s quarterback and a Gray’s Creek volleyball record-breaker are the Athletes of the Week in Cumberland County Schools.
Seventy-First football coach Duran McLaurin has basic criteria he follows when deciding to use a player as a starter on offense and defense. First, he’s got to be a player you can depend on. Second, he’s got to be one who gives his best effort and won’t be taking breaks on the field.
