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Retired Fayetteville Technical Community College President Larry Keen was presented with the Realtor’s Cup honor Tuesday night as the 125 th Anniversary Greater Chamber Awards was held at The …

The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. Monday at the Cumberland County courthouse to consider votes on topics like state grants, an increased budget for a new event center and local board appointments.

Council approves Murchison Choice Neighborhood grant application 

At its meeting Wednesday, the Fayetteville City Council voted unanimously to sign off on the city’s grant application for the implementation of the Murchison Choice Neighborhood plan, a multi-million dollar redevelopment and community investment project for the Murchison Road neighborhood involving dozens of local stakeholders and investors. 

Coming off the heels of a visit to the imminently-closing North Carolina State Veterans Home in Fayetteville, North Carolina legislators on Tuesday criticized the N.C. Dept. of Military and Veteran …

Several days a week, aspiring election candidate Zach Traylor and his campaign team head out into Fayetteville to knock on doors and to ask people …

Carlos Miguel Prieto is on his way to Fayetteville and looking forward to meeting you.  He’s bringing the strings and the percussions of his N.C. Symphony, too.  …

Project leaders for the Murchison Choice Neighborhood plan shared the latest updates — including stakeholder pledges and planned initiatives — for the neighborhood revitalization plan in …

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series on the closing of the state veterans home in Fayetteville. Read part one here . In the final days before closing, few veterans remained …

Cumberland Democrat sees evidence of Democratic gerrymandering in N.C. House election

A Democratic candidate for N.C. Dist. 42 suspects that fellow party member and incumbent Rep. Marvin Lucas of Spring Lake got the state’s majority-Republican legislature to gerrymander the …

  Say hello to the Yomi. You’ll find the Yomi over at Sandhills Oral Surgery, Periodontics & Dental Implant Specialists working alongside oral surgeons like Dr. Gary Jones …

Cumberland County nonprofits get another shot at ARPA funding

Nonprofit entities in Cumberland County will have another chance to apply for federal American Rescue Plan act funding.

Toney Coleman, who retired as director of Fayetteville Regional Airport at the start of 2024 after 30 years as a city employee, was honored with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine at Monday’s Fayetteville City Council meeting. 

Public Works Commission recommends contractor for $18.6 million sewer line repair

The Fayetteville Public Works Commission on Wednesday unanimously recommended that the City Council award a bid to repair 4,000 feet of a 54-inch diameter sewer outfall pipe southeast of Fayetteville …

You knew David Barkman in this community by watching his journey on the path of life he chose, his heart and empathy for others and from those he loved and those who admired and loved him back, because of who David Barkman was in life.

A week after project managers revealed to Cumberland County commissioners that the Crown Event Center would take longer to complete and cost far more than expected, the project team has come up with …

When the majority of the Spring Lake Board of Aldermen took office in 2021, the small town of just under 12,000 was freshly enmeshed in a financial crisis in the wake of the Local Government …

How did the North Carolina State Veterans Home in Fayetteville go from being ranked among the top nursing homes in the country in 2022 to the brink of closing its doors just a year later?  …

The Fayetteville City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at City Hall.  Here’s what’s on the agenda :  Murchison Choice grant application: Fayetteville, in …

In its 96 years of existence, E.E. Smith High School has seen five different locations — and if some local officials have their say, it will soon see its sixth.

Four politicians from Cumberland County seek statewide offices

Voters this year could put four people from Fayetteville and Cumberland into four of North Carolina’s top statewide offices. The three Democrats and one Republican are running for …

The Kirby File: New costs of downtown event center frustrate county leaders

The Cumberland Board of County Commissioners finds itself in something of a conundrum after learning Monday that the price tag for what was a $131.7 million Crown Event Center scheduled for …

Researchers are struggling to catch up with recently-identified and evolving subgroups of PFAS, but two new studies from North Carolina scientists indicate progress is being made.  PFAS, or …

The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners unanimously passed new restrictions on vape and hemp shops Tuesday as part of what Chairman Glenn Adams has described as efforts to address nicotine consumption among youth. 

The 131,000-square-foot event center originally scheduled to come to downtown Fayetteville by late 2025 now must be redesigned in the face of likely delays and increased project costs, county …

You may remember my creepy crawler story about the mischievous critter up there in my attic. He or she would get started somewhere around 4 a.m. to 5 a.m. You could hear the scratching and the …

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