Sarah Nagem

View This Email In Your Browser Sponsored by: Good morning. Fayetteville has a new police chief. At a press conference Friday, City Manager Doug Hewett announced Roberto Bryan Jr. will become the city’s 26th police chief when he steps into the role on July 7. Bryan, who has three decades of experience in law enforcement, […]

View This Email In Your Browser Sponsored by: Good morning. Citing security concerns at Festival Park, Fayetteville PRIDE has decided to move its annual festival indoors. The June 21 event will take place at the Crown Complex instead of Festival Park, where it has been in the past. “Because of security concerns and recent actions […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. When former EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced the first-ever enforceable limits for “forever chemicals” in public drinking water in Fayetteville last April, the crowd — including clean water advocates, former Gov. Roy Cooper and current Gov. Josh Stein — hailed it as a victory after years of […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. After 18 months of planning and building renovations, Fort Bragg’s Exceptional Family Member Program has a new office to help soldiers and their family members with special needs thrive. Located on the fourth floor of the Soldier Support Center off Normandy Drive, the EFMP office brings the […]

View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. North Carolina Rep. Charles Smith, a Cumberland County Democrat, is pushing legislation in the General Assembly to expand the state’s preferential hiring of those affiliated with the military. House Bill 114, titled “Employment Preference for Military Personnel,” rewrites the state’s general statute section on state employment preferences […]

Good morning. Weeks after encouraging fellow GOP representatives to avoid face-to-face meetings with constituents enraged by the Trump administration’s sweeping changes to the federal government, Rep. Richard Hudson employed the strategy himself at a tele-town hall on Tuesday. It was a stark contrast to many recent in-person events held by lawmakers, characterized by terse exchanges […]

Good morning. Attendees of a public input meeting on the second phase of Heritage Park heard updates and provided feedback to the Hope Mills Parks & Recreation Department on the park’s design plans and construction costs. The Thursday meeting marked the official kickoff of the master plan’s design process. Phase 2 of the park is […]

Sponsored by: Good morning. Fort Bragg’s over 50,000 active-duty military personnel, and their families, are gaining an additional local support system. Blue Star Families, a national nonprofit military family support network, is launching the Fayetteville Greater Region Chapter to serve seven counties — Cumberland, Bladen, Harnett, Hoke, Moore, Robeson and Sampson. The group’s evidence-based programming […]