The Rev. Corrina Gambrell takes her place behind the pulpit Sunday as the newly installed pastor of Cypress Springs Presbyterian Church.
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: Late Pinehurst native remembered for long service to the Sandhills
Bill Kirby Jr.’s notes from the week.
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Column: A smorgasbord of country cooking down by ‘the branch,’ and some politicking, too
Ahead of the Nov. 5 election, you’ll likely see Cumberland County candidates at Thursday’s Gray’s Creek Woman’s Club Buffet and Bazaar.
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Column: Down syndrome and autism have a friend in Maverick’s House Thrift Store
You might say 5-year-old. Maverick Underwood is making quite a name for himself in the local business community. “He’s my heart,” grandmother Angie Underwood said as customers roam throughout Maverick’s House, thrift store on Raeford Road.
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Column: School board member applauds commissioners for rejecting military base as E.E. Smith High School site
Cumberland County Schools board member Judy Musgrave is singing the praises of Cumberland Board of County Commissioners for their votes to build a new E.E. Smith High School, but not on Fort Liberty.
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Column: Elect me, Donald Trump says, and he’ll change Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg
Donald Trump surely knows how to work a political crowd. He wasted no time doing just that Friday at a town hall of 4,500 attendees at the Crown Complex Arena.
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Column: Hurricane Helene stormed Asheville and western North Carolina without conscience
Phil Harris finds himself at what you may call ground zero in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Buncombe County, where Hurricane Helene has left her fury and wrath and deadly destruction.
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Column: ‘Our hearts and thoughts,’ city mayor says, ‘are with our neighbors in western North Carolina’
Senior Columnist Bill Kirby Jr. shares notes from the week.
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Column: County Republican Party ‘ecstatic’ about Trump coming to town
Cumberland County Republican Party chairwoman shares thoughts on 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visiting battleground state
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Column: ‘You are an amazing community. You have exceeded my dreams’
“We have great news,” Max Weinstein, chairman of the foundation’s finance and stewardship committee, told about 200 donors and guests Thursday evening at the Cumberland Community Foundation “Founders & Friends” celebration at the CFBG.