Fayetteville’s new professional basketball team, Fayetteville Liberty, will make its debut in March 2026 with its inaugural season
Robert Lee Edwards Jr., owner of the new Fayetteville Liberty basketball team, is a retired Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 and hopes the team will make a positive impact off and on the court
Echoes of Hay Street
In 1896, Samuel H. Kress, a one-time former teacher and stationery store owner, was struck by an ingenious notion. He’d realized the old wooden structures from America’s Victorian age were coming down. America was rebuilding, and reshaping to fit the new century. F.W. Woolworth’s newest invention, for example, of the five-and-dime store, was prospering. Kress…
