View This Email In Your Browser Sponsored by: Good morning. About a dozen students and staff members gathered on Monday afternoon outside the C.J. Barber Administration Building at Fayetteville State University to protest the apparent termination of several university staff members, writes Trey Nemec. They didn’t carry picket signs or bullhorns. These protesters had a […]
Valeria Cloës
Valeria Cloës is the magazine editor and lead copy editor for CityView. She has worked across daily and weekly news publications and magazines in North Carolina. She is trilingual, speaking fluent Spanish, French, and English.
CityView’s June magazine explores downtown Fayetteville, celebrating its continued vitality with new businesses
Our June “The Downtown Issue” magazine explores downtown Fayetteville, celebrating its continued vitality with new businesses
What to expect at this year’s Fayetteville Pride Festival
Festivalgoers can also expect new features, like a kids’ area with youth activities and a poetry reading, as well as alcohol beverage sales and comprehensive security through the Crown Complex’s sponsorship of the event.
Cumberland County officials reacts to proposed changes to Medicaid, SNAP
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Cumberland County public health officials say their concerns have grown that some low-income residents could lose Medicaid coverage and food assistance after the U.S. House passed a federal megabill last week, writes Morgan Casey. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which passed on May 22 with a […]
Hegseth closes out All American Week with appearance at Fort Bragg
View This Email In Your Browser Sponsored by: Good morning. After days of competing in All American Week events, hundreds of 82nd Airborne soldiers stood at attention at Pike Park for Thursday’s division review. Their eyes were locked on U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who traveled to Fort Bragg for the week’s final ceremony. “I’m grateful […]
Fighting food insecurity through mutual aid
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. For our May “Home & Garden” magazine, we checked back in with nonprofit Er’Body Eatz founder J’Kwan Fulmore and his progress on fighting food insecurity in Cumberland County. A month ago, he hosted volunteers at Cliffdale Community Church, where he hopes to create a homestead. Read the […]
Cumberland County employers take child care into their own hands
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Almost 300 children are waiting for a spot to open at First Adventures Child Development Center, a child care center under Cape Fear Valley Health that serves the health system’s employees, writes Morgan Casey. Some of them won’t have to wait much longer. Cape Fear Valley Health […]
How one Fayetteville farmer hopes to sustain legacy and local food system
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. When you think of the term “generational wealth,” what comes to mind? For some, it may be millions of dollars, writes Trey Nemec. For others, it could mean expensive belongings passed down through the branches of the family tree. For Travis Melvin, owner of Melvin’s Produce Farm, […]
State water quality regulators delay action on forever chemicals
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. State environmental officials in charge of coming up with rules to regulate North Carolina’s water supply are continuing to advocate for proposals that would allow industrial polluters to self-regulate the “forever chemicals” they discharge into local waterways, writes Evey Weisblat. The N.C. Environmental Management Commission (EMC), made […]
Fayetteville resident grows community garden out of ancestral land
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. When Sarah Faison set out to create a healing garden to forge community, promote beauty and soothe souls, she realized the person who needed healing the most was herself. Along the way, she discovered what home really means. Sarah, who makes her home in Fayetteville, is the […]

