Mayor Mitch Colvin, Council Members Mario Benavente and Kathy Jensen, and previous candidate Freddie de la Cruz
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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As PFAS contamination grows, state regulators look to ease rules for polluters
Factories that release PFAS into North Carolina’s waterway could be left to their own devices under a new proposal from state bureaucrats overseeing water quality
Posted inPolitics & Government
More than $80 million in PWC infrastructure funds frozen under Trump administration
The Fayetteville Public Works Commission is unable to access more than $80 million in federal funding the utility was previously awarded for electric, water and wastewater infrastructure projects.
Posted inCourts & Justice
Family of 8-year-old fatally shot at babysitter’s home sues gun owner and mother of 11-year-old suspect
Nearly two years after 8-year-old girl Jenesis Dockery was shot and killed while at her babysitter’s house in Cumberland County, her family has filed a lawsuit against the babysitter and the gun’s owner.
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Fayetteville Community Police Advisory Board is ‘cheerleader’ for police department, ex-members claim
In the past 14 months, two members of a volunteer board that is supposed to advise the Fayetteville Police Department have resigned from their roles. Both stepped down just months into their terms, citing concern over the trajectory of what they say is a board that’s advisory in name only, but in reality, is a cheering squad for the police department.
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Discussions on joint city-county 911 call center continue as city considers architectural agreement
Fayetteville is rapidly outgrowing its current emergency communications center, located on the second floor of City Hall, and city leaders are looking to build a new, larger center that can be operational by 2028.
Posted inEnvironment
Forever chemical well testing expands to six counties near Chemours’ Fayetteville plant
Residents in six surrounding counties of Fayetteville Works Plant now qualify for well testing and filtration installation by Chemours.
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Litter cleanup costs NC taxpayers millions of dollars each year, new study finds
Although it is often forgotten among other environmental concerns — contamination from “forever chemicals,” air pollution, climate change — litter is very much a threat to North Carolinians’ health and the natural environment. And it’s a costly one.
Posted inCourts & Justice, Environment, Politics & Government
Legal battle between Fayetteville and HOAs over breached dams continues as city rejects settlement offer
A legal drama spanning nearly seven years between the City of Fayetteville and four homeowners associations with private dams that breached during Hurricane Matthew shows no sign of stopping, as the city on March 3 rejected a settlement offer from the plaintiffs.
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PETA sues city in public records dispute over K-9 incident
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has sued the City of Fayetteville and the Fayetteville Police Department for refusing to release public records relating to an incident in which a Fayetteville police officer was recorded punching his K-9 in the face last summer.
