Column: Consider Hunkering Down with Some Homemade Vegetable Soup with the Winter Storm Heading Our Way
Bill Kirby Jr.’s notes from the week.
Construction Begins on $12 Million Water Project for Two Elementary Schools
The state-funded upgrade aims to improve access to safe drinking water at Gray’s Creek and Alderman Road elementary schools.
Column: Tables are set for 54th renewal of the Gray’s Creek Woman’s Club Buffet and Bazaar
The 54th Annual Gray’s Creek Woman’s Club Buffet and Bazaar is an autumn rite. If you like down-home, country cooking, you’ll want to be at the Gray’s Creek Community Building from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday at 3024 School Road.
Cumberland County to get $34.6 million to reduce PFAS in drinking water
Money to pay for filtration systems across the county, and extend public water to Gray’s Creek
County issues boil water advisory for Southpoint Water System
The county said customers in the water system should boil water for one minute before use.
The Wrong Side of Forever
On an overcast April afternoon, a handful of Gray’s Creek residents cluster around Jamie White’s wooden porch for a debrief. It’s warm and breezy, an ideal spring day for the plants that line the edge of the porch, potted in the bottom halves of large plastic water bottles.
Cumberland County Board of Commissioners officially commits to GenX project with PWC
Cumberland County commissioners officially took the first step in the county’s historic partnership with the Fayetteville Public Works Commission on Monday, unanimously approving a memorandum of understanding with the PWC to build a new water system in Gray’s Creek.

