Column: Once we were young, and they were the best years and ‘times’ of our lives
Clackety, clackety, clack. The Associated Press wire was spitting out national, international and statewide stories one after another in this tiny newsroom with the old oak outside keeping vigil in anticipation of a morning newspaper.
Daylily champion Roger Mercer, longtime garden columnist, dies at age 76
Roger Mercer was a man of many passions: Gardening; writing; newspapers; music; friends; community; and his wife, Maureen. And then there were daylilies. Mercer, a longtime garden columnist for The Fayetteville Observer and its predecessor newspapers and the owner of Mercers’ Garden near Hope Mills, died June 15 at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, according…
Fayetteville newspaper to move printing operations to Gastonia; 56 jobs affected
The Fayetteville Observer will shut down its printing press in April and move its printing operations to a sister newspaper in Gastonia, according to a report on the Observer’s website Tuesday.
Column: Delivering the morning newspaper ‘was in my blood’
Ronnie McLeod never had a byline in the local newspaper. He never wrote or edited the words or snapped a photograph for publication. But like his mother, father and grandfather before him, he was there every day for 40 years for subscribers and readers of The Fayetteville Observer.
