Now the mayor and some City Council members want to be in the entertainment business. That’s just what Mayor Mitch Colvin, Shakeyla Ingram, Larry Wright and Courtney Banks-McLaughlin were saying Monday night at a council work session.
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: No county property tax increase, and that’s a sound decision
Gasoline prices are over $4.50 per gallon, food costs at grocery stores and restaurants are up, and it’s safe to say our Cumberland County Board of Commissioners was prudent Monday in adopting …
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Column: Chamber mum on president’s departure
Greater Fayetteville Chamber leaders were full of excitement and enthusiasm just more than 12 months ago in announcing Shari Fiveash would be the new president and chief executive officer of the organization. So was Fiveash.
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Column: From Fayetteville to the Big Apple for Isabelle Dee Wedemeyer
Isabelle Dee Wedemeyer came out of Fayetteville High School in 1961with no intentions of waiting for the world to come her way. She went after her world, and did she …
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Column: Stoney Point fans still talking about rare youth baseball triple play
Joe Shepard has been coaching youth baseball for 48 years, but he’s never seen anything like May 16, when his Phillies executed a triple play in the Stoney Point Recreation league game for …
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Column: CityView TODAY’s readers’ opinions and thoughts matter to us
The written word doesn’t mean much unless you have folks taking the time to read your words. That’s where you, our subscribers and readers of CityView TODAY, play such a significant role in our digital news operation that’s moving into its sixth month.
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Column: Classroom 13 will never be quite the same
On Tuesday, Debra Taft was meticulously sorting through almost every piece of her first-grade teaching literature in classroom 13 at Alma Easom Elementary School. She was in no hurry. She’s been teaching here for 30 years.
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Column: Superintendent, school leaders share in Uvalde grief
They were children. Just kids. Innocent and enjoying the trappings of youth as fourth-graders at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, with full lives ahead of them.
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Column: This public health nuisance just keeps hanging around
Confound COVID 19, the public health menace. About the time we think we’re getting past the coronavirus, it rears its ugly head again. “We are beginning to see an increase in …
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‘We can work together’
Amid the fragrance of mountain laurel and honeysuckle, Harry Shaw leaned along the railing of the Crescent Overlook and saw in his mind’s eye those summer days of yesteryear, when he splashed in the gentle waters below what is now Cross Creek Linear Park not far from his childhood home on Hawley Lane.