A statewide coalition is working to end the death penalty in North Carolina. Those involved say because capital punishment grew from the seed of slavery, it now needs to be ended.
Bill Horner III
Bill Horner III has spent most of his career in newspapering. His first byline in The Sanford Herald, founded by his grandfather in 1930, came when he was 13 years old. He spent more than 30 years at The Herald, the last 18 as publisher. The newspaper was recognized with four first-place “General Excellence” awards during his last six years there. After a short retirement beginning in 2016, Bill served for more than four years as publisher and editor of The Chatham News + Record, which won more news reporting awards than any other weekly newspaper in N.C. during his tenure there. He and his wife, Lee Ann, live in Sanford. They have three grown children and two grandchildren.
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We have plenty of GOATs. We need a lot more champs. (And a healthy dose of passeggiata.)
In a world of superlatives, there’s never a shortage of debates about who, or what, is the best. The best of the best of the best, of course, are referred to as “the GOAT,” the acronym for greatest of all time. We love heroes, and GOATs provide aspirational measuring sticks for performance greatness. But I’d […]
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Diving into the budget: Hewett breaks down key elements of Fayetteville’s $319.9 million spending plan
City dedicated to ‘investing in our future, embracing opportunities, and meeting the challenges our community faces head-on’ The Fayetteville City Council will spend much of the next few weeks working to finalize its operating budget for the coming fiscal year, which begins July 1. City Manager Doug Hewett’s $319.9 million proposal to the city council represents a […]
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Skywarn program provides ‘ground truth’ in severe weather
Like a lot of meteorologists, Nick Petro’s fascination with the weather began early in his childhood.
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Lyman Baum, ‘The Book of Failure,’ and a prairie disaster
Decimated by tornados in 1879, the town of Irving was the inspiration for Lyman Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”
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The original ‘yacht rockers’ are coming to Fayetteville. (Well, sort of.)
Wayne Nelson, the bassist and frontman for the Little River Band, acknowledges the obvious fact that concertgoers who hear “Reminiscing” or “Cool Change” — two of the hit songs that made LRB one of rock music’s biggest acts — might expect them to sound the same now as they did on vinyl 45 years ago.
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Making the most of an ‘I’m sorry’
Parenting is a difficult job, an enterprise made tougher when the chemistry of multiple blood-related kidlets interacting within the same four walls turns combustible.
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Within Cumberland Schools, Whitley focused on reliable, trustworthy communication
Cumberland County Schools Superintendent Dr. Marvin Connelly Jr. has earned plenty of recognition in the past few months, winning N.C. Superintendent of the Year honors and a nod from the Greater Fayetteville Chamber as “Outstanding Educator of the Year.”
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A case for deconstruction
Faith is an experiential thing, easy to define but difficult to describe. In thinking about and exploring faith on my own over the years, and with others, my sense is this: some people truly own their faith. Others, in a manner of speaking, have only leased or borrowed it.
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Cumberland Community Foundation on GivingTuesday highlights, college scholarship deadline
In the words of its President and CEO Mary Holmes, the Cumberland Community Foundation wants to help make life better for Cumberland residents.