When it came to government, Candice White knew this county like few others. She didn’t miss a beat. Not once. “Any job I ever had,” White, 70, says, “I poured my …
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: New county manager says job is about better lives for residents and a better community
There’s still work for Clarence Grier as deputy city manager in Roanoke, Virginia, but Cumberland County is on his mind. After all, he’s heading our way as the newly hired county manager.
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Column: Downtown the right place, commissioners chairman says, for events center
Didn’t see this one coming. Not in the parking lot in front of the Judge E. Maurice Braswell Cumberland County Courthouse. But that’s where, we learned Monday, the Crown Event …
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Column: ‘The Lord knew I was going to do this,’ says newly ordained minister
The Rev. Keith Smith takes his place this day at the pulpit of Faith Community Church in Massey Hill. He’s served as a lay minister for the past 18 months. But today, Smith will deliver his sermon as a fully ordained minister.
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Column: You can reach out to others during GivingTuesday campaign
If you have a favorite nonprofit organization in Cumberland County, you will want to keep in mind GivingTuesday on Nov. 29, according to the Cumberland Community Foundation.
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Column: ‘Church on the hill’ to serve 2,400-plus Thanksgiving dinners
Steve Hill, Brian Jammer and Jen Jammer will be among more than 100 volunteers up early Thursday in preparation for what has become an annual Thanksgiving Day benevolence in this …
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Column: Weeks Parker Jr. honored with governor’s highest award
His has been a life’s work about Fayetteville in words and thousands of his collection of historic photographs from the Great Fire of 1831 to the Great Flood of 1908. Weeks Parker Jr. is an …
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Column: Sharing a long journalism career with the Hill Toppers made my day
You will know many of our Hill Toppers, Judy Dawkins was assuring me some four months ago. She wanted me to speak to the seniors luncheon group at Snyder Memorial Baptist Church on Westmont Drive in Haymount and to talk about my long journalism career.
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Column: Reaching out, and making the community better for others
There’s something to be said for this day. And no one may say it better than Vera Bell, who will be one of four recipients of the 2022 CityView Power of Giving Community Impact Awards presented by the Fayetteville Public Works Commission.
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Column: From West Point to the pulpit, the Rev. John Cook would do it all again
The Rev. John Cook needed no reminders of the significance of this Blue Star Memorial Veterans Day ceremony. His father, J.J. Cook, sat in the second row at the N.C. Veterans Park visitors …
