Maydha Devarajan

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Cumberland County is home to an estimated 52,831 veterans, the largest population of veterans in the state. And with its proximity to Fort Bragg, the biggest military installation in the country by population, the Fayetteville area is widely known as a military community. This year, residents will […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Hope Mills Mayor Jessie Bellflowers has been reelected to a second term, defeating challenger Todd Henderson by a razor-thin margin of 18 votes, according to unofficial results from the North Carolina State Board of Elections. Bellflowers expressed optimism about collaborating with the newly configured town Board of […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Mayor Mitch Colvin won reelection Tuesday night, defeating Mayor Pro Tem Kathy Jensen and securing a fifth term in office, according to unofficial results from the Cumberland County Board of Elections. Jensen, who has represented District 1 since 2013, will lose her council seat as a result […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Today is Election Day, and heated local races may drive voters to the polls in what normally is a low turnout affair as Cumberland County’s nine municipalities pick their next leaders. We’ll be tracking races in Fayetteville, Hope Mills, and Spring Lake, and plan to stop by […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. A federal lawsuit says the Cumberland County government owes more than $1.3 million in unpaid bills to the architectural firm that designed the now-defunct Crown Event Center in downtown Fayetteville. The suit, filed in October by Philadelphia-based architecture firm EwingCole, also seeks over $329,000 in accrued interest. […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Fayetteville’s overall crime rate has dropped by more than 10% this year, but the city continues to grapple with a sharp rise in homicides, according to a quarterly report presented by the Fayetteville Police Department to the city council on Monday night. As of the end of […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. On a Wednesday afternoon in early October, a Cumberland County school bus stopped along Winesap Road to pick up children at the end of the school day. Instead, the driver found herself face to face with an adult. Stephanie Karon Shaw, 31, stepped onto a Elizabeth Cashwell […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. State environmental regulators have fined D.R. Allen & Son Inc., a concrete block manufacturer in Fayetteville, $10,398 for repeated violations of North Carolina’s fugitive dust rules, citing uncontained emissions and failures to follow its dust control plan at the Fay Block concrete facility. The penalty, issued Sept. […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Long-simmering plans for Cumberland County to build a $17 million shelter and assistance center for homeless people advanced on Monday when county commissioners voted 6-0 to proceed with the second phase of the project. The location for the Unhoused Support Center is tracking to move away from […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Off-duty Fayetteville police officers are officially allowed to carry firearms on Cumberland County public school property, according to a memorandum of understanding approved by the Cumberland County Board of Education last week. District officials said the agreement is intended to strengthen campus safety and clarify confusion among […]