Column: ‘The sanctity of life is no longer sacred,’ police chief says about gun violence
Kemberle Braden is the city police chief, and the veteran policeman says there is no politically correct way to describe the cycle of gun violence in Fayetteville. “The sanctity of life is no longer sacred,” the 49-year-old chief told Mayor Mitch Colvin and the Fayetteville City Council on Monday evening at City Hall about shootings…
Column: A better community, because Ramon Yarborough passed our way
Dapperly dressed, still there are those of us who see him in our mind’s eye strolling down the long, main corridor on any given newspaper morning or afternoon. There was something of a …
Column: COVID-19 may be lurking again, county health director tells commissioners
Dr. Jennifer Green is director of the Cumberland County Public Health Department, and Green brought some not-so-welcome news to the Board of Commissioners this week, telling the board that wastewater surveillance data from the state reveals COVID-19 particles are on the rise, according to a news release from the county.
Retired newspaper publisher Ramon Yarborough dies at age 90
Ramon Yarborough, retired publisher of The Fayetteville Observer and Fayetteville Publishing Co., died early Monday. He was 90. Mr. Yarborough died at his Fayetteville home. “It …