David Bryan had a heart for animals, particularly homeless dogs and cats in this community. No was not in his vocabulary. Not when it came to innocent …
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: Downtown is all about visionaries past and present who dare to dream
You could learn something Wednesday about what a community can be if you put some time, effort and perseverance into making a city and a county better — and don’t forget some …
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Column: Downtown visionaries Menno Pennink, late Harry Shaw to be honored
Bianca Shoneman, president and chief executive officer of the Cool Spring Downtown District, will deliver the State of the District report today at the sold-out second annual CityView Downtown …
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Fayetteville Rose Garden celebrates 50 years of beauty, pride
You can’t think of the Fayetteville Rose Garden today without thinking back to its origins with the city of Fayetteville, the first Fayetteville Beautiful, the Garden Club Council, the Fayetteville Rose Society, and, of course, Fayetteville Technical Community College, where the roses bloom.
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Column: End of an era nears at nursery and garden shop along Skibo Road
The walls of his office are bare, including those photographs from 1955 when John Fairley Dunn opened the little nursery along Skibo Road long before the commercial chain stores came along. The …
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Column: Joe Quigg remembers one of the Tar Heel basketball greats
They were college basketball teammates, one a prolific offensive wizard and one who converted two free throws to secure a national championship and an unbeaten season that still is revered in Chapel Hill.
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Column: Class of 1967 celebrates days of yesteryear at Hope Mills High School
When they were teenagers growing up in Hope Mills, they could travel almost anywhere just by taking Cameron, Legion and Hope Mills roads or U.S. 301. But the roadways that took members of the Hope Mills High School Class of 1967 on their life journey always had a return destination.
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Column: ‘I miss him so,’ a daughter remembers family patriarch
This Father’s Day will be unlike others for Sharon Hinton Smith and her sisters Pamela Ainsworth and Deborah Pierson. Their hearts will be heavy. Donald “Don” Leroy Hinton …
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Column: Vote Yes Fayetteville initiative secures 5,007 signatures
Two former mayors, two former mayors pro tem and two past city councilmen have been working for more than a year to reduce district representation on the elected body that governs the city.
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Column: Mayor, challenger deliver at Fayetteville NAACP candidates’ forum
This wasn’t a debate between the city mayor and the challenger who wants to be mayor, but it was an informative and enlightening back-and-forth exchange between incumbent Mitch Colvin and Freddie Delacruz.