Maydha Devarajan

Good morning. Children at two schools in Gray’s Creek have not been allowed to drink from the water fountains since it was discovered in 2017 that the schools’ well water is contaminated with cancer-causing PFAS “forever chemicals.” As a temporary measure, Cumberland County this summer is putting filters on the schools’ water systems to extract […]

Good morning. At least four people have indicated they will run for mayor of Fayetteville this year. In conversations with CityView or via a public announcement, those candidates are four-term Mayor Mitch Colvin, Five-term City Council Member and Mayor Pro Tem Kathy Keefe Jensen, City Council Member Mario Benavente, and previous mayoral and legislative candidate […]

Good morning. The Cumberland County Department of Public Health is keeping an eye on a handful of bills introduced in the N.C. House of Representatives. One piece of proposed legislation would prevent local boards of health from creating more stringent regulations on wastewater disposal and treatment than the state unless approved by NCDHHS. Another would […]

Good morning. 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, […]

Good morning. Cumberland County property owners are running out of time to file appeals if they believe the county’s tax appraisers over-valued their homes and other property this year. The tax-appraised value of real estate in Cumberland County went up an average of 64.7% between 2017 and 2025, Paul Woolverton writes. This includes more than […]

Good morning. Under the Biden administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers couldn’t make arrests in churches, schools and hospitals. These places, called “protected areas,” were off-limits for immigration enforcement. Now, they’re fair game for an ICE officer to enter, writes Morgan Casey, as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security rescinded the protected […]

Good morning. A new study on the financial impact of litter in North Carolina found the state spent at least $56.3 million in 2023 to clean up 14.6 million pounds of trash. North Carolina taxpayer funds covered at least $25 million spent by the N.C. Department of Transportation and at least $22.4 million spent by […]

Good morning. 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 rejected a settlement offer from the plaintiffs last week. As Evey Weisblat reports, when Hurricane Matthew tore through Fayetteville in 2016, […]

Good morning. After facing neighborhood opposition, a company that converts waste to energy is abandoning its plans for downtown Fayetteville. About 40 people gathered in the old sanctuary of Second Missionary Baptist Church on Thursday to speak out against Waste Energy Corp’s plan to operate a facility on South Cool Spring Street in a predominantly […]

Good morning. Year after year, Cumberland County ranks among the worst in North Carolina for health outcomes. The county had one of the highest overdose death rates in the state in 2023. Last year, it had the highest preterm birth rate. But a program out of the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health […]