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Good morning. During one of my first months living in Fayetteville back in the fall of 2023, longtime local resident (and our senior reporter) Paul Woolverton told me about the spaghetti dinners and Wednesday lunch specials that are signature to our town. But more than simply a good deal, I came to realize spaghetti in […]

Good morning. In Cumberland County Schools, about 35% of students are considered chronically absent. That means they miss at least 10% of school days. Cumberland County’s chronic absenteeism rate is also 24% higher than the North Carolina average.  These statistics have prompted the school district to make some major changes to the attendance policy. The […]

Good morning! We hope these first few days of the new year have been treating you well, and you’ve been able to reminisce on the stories that shaped our community’s 2024 with our “best-of” newsletter series. On New Year’s Day, we published the e-edition of our first magazine of 2025: the January “New Year New […]

Good morning. In breaking news, both the driver who ran a pickup truck over dozens of people in New Orleans and the likely driver of the Cybertruck with a load of bombs that exploded in Las Vegas served in the Army at Fort Liberty. Read more about it here. Meanwhile, the shuttered North Carolina Veterans […]

Good morning. My name is Evey Weisblat and I’m the government accountability reporter for CityView. You may know me from typing in the background at Fayetteville City Council meetings, but I also cover stories about the environment, military and social justice — today, I’m sharing a few of them. With a focus on daily news and […]

Good morning, and Happy New Year’s Eve! I’m Paul Woolverton, CityView’s senior reporter. This past year had many exciting moments in Fayetteville and Cumberland County, and I’m grateful to have brought you some of the stories of our community. In today’s newsletter, I’ll share some highlights of that work: Three people from Fayetteville and Cumberland […]

Good morning. My name is Morgan Casey and I’m the health reporter and Report for America corps member at CityView. I’m reporting in Fayetteville thanks to a grant from RFA, which places early-career journalists in underserved newsrooms across the country. In my first six months at CityView, I’ve gotten to cover impactful health topics thanks […]

Good morning! We hope you didn’t miss us too much — we’re ecstatic to be back after our newsletter publishing pause. Today we’re starting back up with the last feature of the December “Home for the Holidays” magazine. In fact, the new executive director of United Way of Cumberland County came back home to Fayetteville […]

Good morning. The day Errol Jarman became Spring Lake’s interim police chief in April, his officers told him that the most violent property in town was the Plush Sports Bar, a squat, black-and-gray box with tall tinted windows near the intersection of N.C. 210 and Bragg Boulevard. Today, writes Greg Barnes, the property sits empty, […]

Good morning! While Cape Fear Botanical Garden welcomed a new director of philanthropy earlier this year, she is not new to the area. Fayetteville native Shannon Bell returned to old stomping grounds in August, bringing her UNC-Chapel Hill experience to help grow CFBG. Read all about her in today’s lead story. Welcome to CityView Today. In today’s newsletter, we also […]