Column: Enjoy Your Holiday Season Shopping, but Beware of Those Christmas Grinches
‘Tis the season for your Christmas shopping, and that joyous time of the year when we’re in search of the perfect gift to help old Saint Nick place under the tree. But be vigilant.
Column: Freshman Councilman Brings Confident Resolve of Commitment to City Government
“I want to first just thank God for blessing me with the opportunity to walk in my purpose while serving the people in the community I love,” Shaun McMillan said at the Fayetteville City Council inauguration Monday.
Column: Singing Christmas Tree Brings the True Message of the Holiday Season
It’s the Singing Christmas Tree (circa 1979), and it is back for a four-day, six-performance run beginning Thursday at Snyder Memorial Baptist Church on Westmont Drive in Haymount.
Column: A ‘Dickens of A Christmas’ to kick off 25th renewal of A Dickens Holiday downtown
“My challenge is to bring him to life,” says Elliot Engel, who will present a mini-lecture on the story behind Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” novella, which has become a holiday classic.
The Christmas Bonus
My two toddler brothers and I were crammed in our ‘57 Chevy and parked on Hay Street on that cold afternoon on Christmas Eve 1964. We marveled at the Christmas shoppers and the colorful display …
This ‘The Best Christmas Pageant’ may be the best yet
Hide your lunch. The Herdmans are back in town. The Cape Fear Regional Theater opened its yearly traditional Christmas offering, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever!,” over the …
Interior designer with Fayetteville ties to help decorate the White House for Christmas
While many families gather to count their blessings this Thanksgiving, interior designer Jana Donohoe will be jetting off to our nation’s Capital to help decorate the White House for Christmas. …
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The Kirby File: Tiny Tim, Ebenezer Scrooge and ‘A Christmas Carol’ holiday cast coming to downtown
John Malzone remembers how downtown once was on the day after Thanksgiving. He shudders at the thought. Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the characters of novelist Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” circa 1843, would transform the downtown Fayetteville streets a year later with the inaugural “A Dickens Holiday,” replete with Victorian costumes, Christmas choral groups,…
Grinding of the Greens Christmas tree pickup to begin Jan. 9
The annual Grinding of the Greens Christmas tree recycling program begins Jan. 9, according to Fayetteville Public Works Commission.
Column: ‘Joy to the world, the Lord is come,’ as a gift with a promise
Joy to the world. Youngsters are unwrapping their packages under the tree, with fathers and mothers in bathrobes enjoying every delightful smile and taking snapshots of memories to last a lifetime. In the little town of Bethlehem more than 2,000 years ago, a child lay in a manger, Mary and Joseph keeping vigil because there…
N.C. DOT advises caution on roads as winter storm brings gusty winds
Gusty winds, bone-chilling temperatures and the possibility of snow and sleet in some locations has prompted the N.C. Department of Transportation to issue a travel advisory for the Christmas weekend.
Column: No celebration of Christmas at the Market House
Our downtown is Christmas aglow, with City Hall, Segra Stadium and the Arts Council of Fayetteville-Cumberland County adorned in holiday lights. Shops and businesses, too. Everything but the historic Market House, with not a candle in the windows as once there were in Christmases past.
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