After a social media storm — including a petition and the creation of a Facebook group dedicated to protecting downtown trees — swept through Fayetteville over the weekend, Parks and Recreation Director Michael Gibson clarified that the city will not be, in fact, chopping down healthy trees downtown.
Evey Weisblat
Evey Weisblat is a journalist with five years of experience in local news reporting. She has previously worked at papers in central North Carolina, including The Pilot and the Chatham News + Record. Her central beat is government accountability reporting, covering the Fayetteville City Council.
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Ethics complaint lodged against council member over home demolition
‘The house was on the demo list, and the people sold it,’ Councilman D.J. Haire says. ‘They bamboozled us,’ according to complainant Leonard Williams. The house on the left was demolished on Dec. 20. It is the subject of an ethics complaint against Fayetteville City Council Member D.J. Haire. The longest-serving member of the Fayetteville […]
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Cumberland County Board of Commissioners to return School Resource Officer budget to general operating fund
The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners discussed budget changes at the Cumberland County Courthouse on Thursday, May 30. Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that the county pulled funding earmarked for the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, not the school system. CityView apologizes for the error. Cumberland County will no longer include money […]
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Downtown tax, community safety: key takeaways from Fayetteville’s budget hearing
Residents attending Tuesday’s budget hearing hold up signs that urging the council to fully fund the Office of Community Safety. (CityView photo by Evey Weisblat) Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect that the Downtown Alliance completed the 2017 tree plan that was referenced by Molly Arnold during the public budget hearing. Residents […]
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Project Aero: Despite some opposition, Fayetteville approves titanium plant incentives package
The potential site of a titanium processing plant in Cumberland County, behind the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. factory off Ramsey Street, north of Fayetteville. Fayetteville’s City Council on Tuesday approved an incentives package offering millions of dollars in tax rebates to a titanium reclamation plant eyeing the city as a place to set up […]
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Fayetteville firefighters grapple with ‘alarming rates’ of cancer
Assistant Chief Adam Ferguson asks Fayetteville Fire Academy students to raise their hand if someone they know has died from cancer. (CityView photo by Sabreena Czarnecki) There’s a pervasive myth that firefighters die in a “blaze of glory.” The reality, according to the Fayetteville Fire Department’s David Richtmeyer, is often much darker.”We don’t die like that,” […]
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Shuttered N.C. veterans home had problems for years
The state abruptly closed a veterans home in Fayetteville this February. Officials knew for years that the facility had moisture issues, among other problems, but North Carolina legislators say they were kept in the dark. The North Carolina State Veterans Home. (CityView photo by Tony Wooten) Two days before Thanksgiving, Lt. Gen. Walter Gaskin visited […]
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Fayetteville residents blame concrete plant for health problems, pollution
Not far from downtown Fayetteville, cement dust swirls over the asphalt on North Street, stirred by passing cars. The air is thick with it.
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Fayetteville’s first draft of budget would increase property taxes, monthly fees
Under the recommended 2024-25 budget of Fayetteville City Manager Doug Hewett — which he presented to Fayetteville City Council at Monday’s meeting — residents could see a 5-cent property tax rate increase per $100 property valuation and increases in several monthly service fees.
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City picks Manna Dream Center to run Day Resource Center
Fayetteville has selected the Manna Dream Center , a local nonprofit organization and church, to operate the city’s Day Resource Center (DRC) for a year starting July 1.
