Column: Grammy-winning singer Sheryl Crow to headline Independence Day on Fort Liberty
Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame-bound Sheryl Crow is the scheduled headliner for the Fourth at the Fort Celebration on Fort Liberty at the Main Post Parade Field. Gates open at 3 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Morale, Welfare and Recreation program and a post spokeswoman.
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…
It’s time to get started on that fall garden
I can grow 10 times the food in the same space if I plant fall crops now. We can plant so many tasty crops that will do well that I can’t mention them all here. Even better, most fall crops are leafy vegetables. You eat almost the whole plant because the leaves and roots on…

