Bill Kirby Jr.’s notes from the week.
Bill Kirby Jr.
Bill Kirby Jr. is a veteran journalist who spent 49 years as a newspaper editor, reporter and columnist covering Fayetteville, Cumberland County and the Cape Fear Region for The Fayetteville Observer. He most recently has written for CityView Magazine.
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Column: Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti and the Late Pete Parrous’ Secret Recipe Tomato Sauce
“The sauce is what sells it,” Jerry Anagnostopoulos says about The World’s Largest Spaghetti Dinner and Greek Pastry Sale, which is scheduled from 10 a.m-7 p.m. Wednesday at Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church.
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Column: Spring Lake Dentist David Dickerhoff Honored as Town’s 2025 Veteran of the Year
“I watched the twin towers going down, and kids going to Afghanistan,” the 69-year-old U.S. Army and 82nd Airborne veteran says about Sept. 11, 2001 and the Global War on Terror.
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Column: ‘Our mission is to support our military community,’ says chamber’s Military Affairs Council chair
Bill Kirby Jr.’s notes from the week.
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Column: A Poignant Remembrance of Heartfelt Gratitude at North Carolina Veterans Park
“The sum of their individual contributions to our nation are unfathomable and impossible to measure,” Ann Provencher said about our military veterans, many whom were in attendance Tuesday at the Blue Star Veterans Day ceremony.
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Column: FTCC dental hygienist class of yesteryear relives a golden time in life
“We were so happy we could get together for this reunion,” Maria Pappas says about gathering with Fayetteville Technical Community College dental hygienist classmates of 1975. “We’ve always been a very good class.” And forever friends.
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Column: ‘Landslide’ victory in Fayetteville mayoral race, longtime politico says, but close in Hope Mills and Spring Lake
Bill Kirby Jr.’s notes from the week.
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Column: Just another election night for the only mayor Eastover has ever known
“I was born and raised here, and I love my community,” says Charles McLaurin, who wins his 10th two-year mayoral term and what McLaurin says will be his last. “And I love the people out here. I am blessed.”
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Column: City mayoral campaign offers insight about integrity and respect of two candidates for one another
The Fayetteville mayor and the mayor pro tem may be political foes this municipal election season, but Mitch Colvin and Kathy Keefe Jensen hold a mutual respect in this race for the city gavel.
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Column: Hope Mills residents will decide case of censured commissioner, and it won’t be over waffles
Bill Kirby Jr.’s notes from the week.
