Maydha Devarajan

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Cumberland County and Fayetteville are receiving another allocation of national opioid settlement money. The city and county will receive about $575,000 from a $720 million settlement between eight drug makers and several states, including North Carolina, reports Morgan Casey. The drug makers involved in the settlement produced […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. The Environmental Protection Agency has canceled a research project that looked at new ways to detect “forever chemicals” in the air surrounding Chemours’ Fayetteville Works Plant. The project, funded with an $800,000 grant from the EPA, was being conducted by the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. The new Deep Creek Community Center at Mable C. Smith Park was standing room only on Friday as community members and current and former local elected officials gathered to celebrate its opening.  The space will be available for community events and for residents to rent in just […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. The U.S. Department of Defense has a decades-long history of turning to private defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing to develop the latest military tech. But for 11 years now, Dragon’s Lair — think ABC’s “Shark Tank” — has asked soldiers to develop solutions […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Almost half of Cumberland County residents are at risk of losing health insurance after the U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed its version of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” The bill combines most of the president’s domestic policy priorities and looks to make steep cuts to Medicaid […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. When Starbucks barista Elijah Wittmeyer-Balthazar decided to start a union campaign at his Fayetteville store for the third time, he knew it wouldn’t be easy. The barista would have to contend with the usual challenges of union organizing: a fear of being retaliated against and the stigma […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Inside an unassuming, two-story building along Murchison Road is what Fayetteville Mayor Mitch Colvin described as a dream come alive: A safe space where children and teens living along the Murchison Road corridor can learn and grow. That space is the Way2Real Community Center, which officially opened […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. The City of Fayetteville is in negotiations with a Florida company and other parties to build a long-awaited tower atop the Hay Street parking deck next to Segra Stadium in downtown Fayetteville. A deal to build an apartment tower or other project on the parking deck could […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Yeadon Domes, an international manufacturer of air domes, is one step closer to breaking ground on its Fayetteville facility. The Fayetteville City Council on Monday approved the company’s annexation and rezoning requests, the final step before construction. Earlier this year in March, Yeadon Domes chose Fayetteville as […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. In a world obsessed with lightning-fast messaging, apps and “smart” everything, a passionate group in Fayetteville works to keep alive a form of communication that predates the internet: One that still works, even when the rest of the world goes silent. The Cape Fear Amateur Radio Society […]