Say hello to the Campos sisters. Cheyanne is 16. Cali Rai is 14. They are two of the younger businesswomen in Cumberland County, and the sisters have a story to tell. “It’s simple,” …
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: A farewell curtain call for the first lady of community theater
They came for what would be the final curtain call for the first lady of Cape Fear Regional Theatre. A farewell bow, if you will, for Olga Thorp. They knew her as Bo. They knew her as Bo.
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Column: Some good country eating and politicking down Gray’s Creek way
Some things you can be assured of in life. And when the Gray’s Creek Woman’s Club Country Buffet and Bazaar rolls around in autumn, you can be assured Robert and Corey Breece will be …
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Column: Delivering the morning newspaper ‘was in my blood’
Ronnie McLeod never had a byline in the local newspaper. He never wrote or edited the words or snapped a photograph for publication. But like his mother, father and grandfather before him, he was there every day for 40 years for subscribers and readers of The Fayetteville Observer.
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Column: From Breezewood to the classroom to county commissioner
Kenneth Edge thought his 80th birthday celebration would be a family affair with his wife, Brenda; the couple’s sons and daughter and their spouses; and those seven grandchildren. Well, they fooled him.
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Column: City Council vote on Civil War history center project is near
You can only talk about something for so long, and it’s time for Mayor Mitch Colvin and the City Council to make a decision on whether the municipal body will approve $6.6 million for the …
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Column: ‘So grateful we have the Cancer Center here,’ Susie Godwin says
Susie Godwin is a breast cancer survivor. Not only a survivor, but one of the more fortunate women who has heard those chilling words —”You have breast cancer.” Godwin had our …
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Column: A post mid-life business decision, and Jeff Mozingo has no regrets
Jeff Mozingo learned long ago from his father that if you plan to own your own business, be there. “He gets tickled with me,” says Mozingo, 53, the majority owner of Play It Again …
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Column: Now is the time to become engaged in your community
Seems like everything is coming at us all at once in this autumn season, with decisions to be made from political choices on Nov. 8 about bond initiatives to changing the structure of the Fayetteville City Council representation to whether or not the City Council will keep its promise to approve funding for a proposed N.C. Civil War & Reconstruction History Center.
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Column: City wants more time before decision on $6.6 million for Civil War history center
Call it a breakdown in communication. Call it, if you will, a lack of courtesy. After all, Mac Healy and Mary Lynn Bryan came to the Fayetteville City Council work session Monday to hear from Mayor Mitch Colvin and Mayor Pro Tem Johnny Dawkins about their further thoughts on the proposed $80 million N.C. Civil War & Reconstruction History Center that would be built on the grounds of the Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex.
