Maydha Devarajan

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. The Town of Hope Mills is under an ongoing investigation by the North Carolina Office of the State Auditor, according to public records obtained by CityView. The state auditor’s office met with town staff on Aug. 13 “following the receipt of anonymous complaints,” Hope Mills Town Manager […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Hundreds of people marched in downtown Fayetteville this weekend to memorialize right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated on Sept. 10. Among the attendees of Sunday’s prayer walk were former state legislative candidate Semone Pemberton, current state Rep. Diane Wheatley and Cumberland County Commissioner Henry Tyson. The […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. The state is sanctioning the Spring Lake government because the town has not submitted annual audits for the past three fiscal years to the North Carolina Local Government Commission. The Local Government Commission voted last week to withhold small amounts of sales tax revenue from Spring Lake […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. For Mike Lopez, the small 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum at Fort Bragg is a cornerstone of the military unit he once served with. But he worries it may not remain there much longer. In June, the Army announced plans to consolidate its current 41 museums […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. North Carolina is in a child care crisis. Centers across the state have shuttered as federal pandemic-era grant funding has dried up. Since March, six child care sites have closed in Cumberland County, according to data from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. The […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. The expected cost for the Fayetteville Public Works Commission to build two filtration plants to clear PFAS contamination was $73 million in March 2023. Since then, the estimate rose to $80 million, then $111.2 million, and then nearly $116 million. Now, the price has risen to $134 […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. This time last year, Fayetteville State University anticipated it would have about 7,500 students in fall 2025. This semester, the school has 7,628 students — more than ever recorded. Chancellor Darrell T. Allison told CityView he was “quite surprised” when he saw the enrollment figures were higher […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Cumberland County commissioners are asking the public what should be put on the former parking lot where the canceled Crown Event Center was going to be built. The site in downtown Fayetteville has been a vacant field of mud since construction stopped in March. Some of the […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Fayetteville’s first Indigo Moon Film Festival was held in the fall of 2016, offering cinephiles and casual moviegoers a weekend to see dozens of shorts, documentaries and films from across the country and the world. This year’s event, which would have been the 10th annual festival, was […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Cumberland County will spend $250,000 in unused pandemic-era funds to support residents experiencing homelessness. The money will fund a pilot of the Cumberland County Community Development Department’s Homeless Prevention and Stabilization Voucher Program, which county commissioners approved last week. The program will pay up to three months […]