Sometimes rituals help create a sense of home and stability in the midst of a mobile life. Instead of identifying “home” as a place, I’ve adapted it into more of a practice. …
Two weeks after N.C. Newsline reported that North Carolina-based chemical company Chemours has been allowed to import 4 million pounds of GenX from its Netherlands facility to the Fayetteville Works …
The Fayetteville City Council will meet for a work session at 5 p.m. Monday at City Hall, 433 Hay St. Here's a look at what’s on the agenda:
Fayetteville Technical Community College President Mark Sorrells was honored by the N.C. Technology Association as its Tech Difference Maker of the Year. Sorrells was recognized for role helping to launch the Carolina Cyber Network, a collaborative workforce development initiative through which select cybersecurity education institutions are working together to meet the growing talent needs of the state’s public agencies and private businesses.
Cape Fear, Seventy-First and Terry Sanford racked up wins in the state high school football playoffs on Friday night. Jack Britt, Pine Forest and South View came up short.
Mitch Colvin wants a fourth term as city mayor. Efrain “Freddie” de la Cruz wants Colvin’s gavel. Six incumbents want to remain on the Fayetteville City Council. Six …
Sour belts, gummy grapes, tropical drops … Carter Blount, 8-year-old son of Kanitra and Curtis Blount, directs guests to his recommended candy selection as the after-school candy manager at …
The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners will meet 9 a.m. on Monday for the board’s first meeting of November. Here’s what’s ahead.
Just three weeks into the 2023 football season, things looked extremely bleak for Bill Sochovka’s Pine Forest Trojans. After games with eventual state playoff qualifiers Cape Fear, Seventy-First and Gray’s Creek, the Trojans were 0-3 and had an average losing margin of 32 points per game. The Trojans went 6-1 the rest of the season and wound up capturing their third consecutive conference title.
A standout receiver for Cape Fear football and a star of Terry Sanford’s win over Carrboro in girls tennis are the Athletes of the Week for Cumberland County high schools.
Terry Sanford’s women’s tennis team has a state doubles championship to its credit. Now the Bulldogs will attempt to add a team title to its haul of honors. Last weekend, the duo of Pauline Bui and Loren Galaviz took home the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-A doubles crown with a 6-1, 6-0 win over twins Caroline and Kathryn Adkins of Fike High School in Wilson. Their teammates will join them in Burlington on Saturday for the 3-A dual team final against Lake Norman Charter School at the Burlington Tennis Center.
When folks gather downtown Saturday for the Cumberland County Veterans Day Parade, they’ll be witnessing a soldier’s soldier in Lt. Gen. Christopher T. Donahue, commanding general of Fort Liberty and the XVIII Airborne Corps, and the last American solider to depart Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021, in this nation’s effort to defeat the international terrorists Al Qaeda in the 20-year war.
With colder temperatures this week signaling winter's approach, something else is coming, too: respiratory illness season.
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 …
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.
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.
