Several days a week, aspiring election candidate Zach Traylor and his campaign team head out into Fayetteville to knock on doors and to ask people …
Paul Woolverton
Paul Woolverton is CityView's senior reporter, covering courts, local politics, and Cumberland County affairs. He joined CityView from The Fayetteville Observer, where he worked for more than 30 years. He can be reached at pwoolverton@cityviewnc.com.
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Cumberland Democrat sees evidence of Democratic gerrymandering in N.C. House election
A Democratic candidate for N.C. Dist. 42 suspects that fellow party member and incumbent Rep. Marvin Lucas of Spring Lake got the state’s majority-Republican legislature to gerrymander the …
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Public Works Commission recommends contractor for $18.6 million sewer line repair
The Fayetteville Public Works Commission on Wednesday unanimously recommended that the City Council award a bid to repair 4,000 feet of a 54-inch diameter sewer outfall pipe southeast of Fayetteville …
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54-inch, 4,000-foot Fayetteville sewer line needs $18.6 million repair
Fayetteville’s water, sewer and electric company anticipates spending about $18.6 million to line 4,000 feet of a damaged 54-inch diameter sewer line and stabilize the terrain around it to …
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Four politicians from Cumberland County seek statewide offices
Voters this year could put four people from Fayetteville and Cumberland into four of North Carolina’s top statewide offices. The three Democrats and one Republican are running for …
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Cumberland Republicans flood the county commission zone, but let Dems win five other seats
While Cumberland County’s Republican Party has eight candidates vying for Dist. 2 seats on the Board of Commissioners this year, the GOP is letting the Democrats take three District Court …
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GOP candidate Venus de la Cruz wants to lose the primary
Republican Cumberland County Commissioner Dist. 2 candidate Venus de la Cruz will not campaign in the GOP primary, she said on Tuesday, and instead will support three other Republican candidates in the eight-person race.
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PWC to learn about filters to remove PFAS and GenX from drinking water
With federal Environmental Protection Agency regulations on the horizon to keep “forever chemicals” out of drinking water supplies, the Fayetteville Public Works Commission on Wednesday …
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Village Drive earth-moving project to make land more amenable for development
A massive earth-moving project got underway in 2023 on 19 acres on Village Drive at Robeson Street in Fayetteville, near Highland Country Club, but no specific development is planned for the site, the company managing the property said.
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Court rules: Goodyear must cover health costs for workers hurt on the job
Court rules: Goodyear must cover health costs for workers hurt on the job One man suffered hearing loss in an explosion. The other hurt his shoulder with years of heavy lifting BY PAUL …
