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City Council to revisit gunshot detection system for Police Department
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Spring Lake police chief to be sworn in
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Information session on $97M bond initiative draws small crowd
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Golf Championship draws friendships, rivalries and generational competition
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City Council authorizes $450,000 for planned Black Voices Museum
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Spring Lake police chief to be sworn in
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City Council to revisit gunshot detection system for Police Department
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Information session on $97M bond initiative draws small crowd
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Fiesta Latina celebrates cultures and honors diversity, inclusion
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Operation InAsMuch hosts Ray's Run 5k to benefit The Lodge
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Fayetteville Ukulele Club holds upcoming workshop
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Stronger Together : All American Week on Fort Bragg celebrates paratrooper service and sacrifice
All American Week is fully back this year after several delays. This will be the first time since 2019 that the 82nd Airborne Division will hold an entire week of…Read More -
International Folk Festival celebrates cultural diversity
The region's longest-running multicultural event is back after a two-year hiatus to bring people together to celebrate cultural diversity. The Arts Council of Fayetteville & Cumberland County invites everyone to…Read More -
Golf Championship draws friendships, rivalries and generational competition
Before Brian Dreier worries about defending his title in the Cumberland County Golf Championship in October, he has to be the best player in his own family.Dreier won the CCGC…Read More -
Fiesta Latina celebrates cultures and honors diversity, inclusion
Latinos United for Progress proudly announces Fayetteville’s first Fiesta Latina. The Latin community has participated in many heritage events, such as the International Folk Festival, but this is the first…Read More -
City Council authorizes $450,000 for planned Black Voices Museum
The city is contributing $450,000 for a planned Black Voices Museum downtown. The Fayetteville City Council authorized the appropriation at its meeting Monday night, Sept. 12.Organizers say the museum would…Read More
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Spring Lake police chief to be sworn in
The Spring Lake Board of Aldermen is expected to swear in Dysoaneik Spellman as the new police chief during the Sept. 26 meeting.The town in August announced Spellman as the…Read More -
City Council to revisit gunshot detection system for Police Department
The Fayetteville City Council on Sept. 26 will revisit the execution of a contract for a gunshot detection system for the Police Department. Reconsideration of the contract is listed under…Read More -
Information session on $97M bond initiative draws small crowd
An information session to talk with residents about the three bond packages that will be on the Nov. 8 ballot for Fayetteville residents drew a small crowd Friday, Sept. 23.…Read More -
City Council District 8: Banks-McLaughlin wants to focus on quality of life for all residents
City Council member Courtney Banks-McLaughlin was elected to City Council in November of 2019.She is now serving on her second term and plans to prioritize quality of life, public safety…Read More -
City Council authorizes $450,000 for planned Black Voices Museum
The city is contributing $450,000 for a planned Black Voices Museum downtown. The Fayetteville City Council authorized the appropriation at its meeting Monday night, Sept. 12.Organizers say the museum would…Read More
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Marduk and cover: Do something about climate change
Once upon a time there was a Babylonian god named Marduk. Not Daffy Duck, not Donald Duck, but Marduk. You don’t need a Mesopotamian god to know which way the…Read More -
Reliable power means nuclear power
In late August, the government of California gave its residents two additional, and interrelated, reasons to consider moving elsewhere. First, the state’s Air Resources Board announced plans to phase out…Read More -
Publisher's Pen: Vote No! $97 million tax referendum places cruel tax on Fayetteville residents
In its wisdom (or lack of) the Fayetteville City Council is about to launch a marketing campaign for three bond referendums totaling $97 million that will appear on the November…Read More -
The Jewish New Year and the secular New Year
This year Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) will be celebrated at the end of September, ushering in the year 5783 (according to the traditional Jewish biblical calculation). Superficially there…Read More -
I've fallen and I can’t get up
Those words ring loud and clear in a commercial that dramatizes someone falling and the inability to get up. The commercial is targeted toward the sale of an alert system.…Read More
Arts
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Cape Fear Studios presents 6By Visual Exhibit
Cape Fear Studios’ latest exhibit displays work from artists across the nation. The 6By Visual Exhibit showcases art that is at least six inches on one side and no more…Read More -
‘Crawdads’ book may have a connection to Africa
Was “Where the Crawdads Sing” set in North Carolina — as both the book and movie assert — and where, according to her publisher, the author Delia Owens now lives? Or in…Read More -
Cookbooks cook up good stories
What North Carolina cookbook has sold the most copies? If you ask the folks at UNC Press they will tell you that “Mama Dip’s Kitchen” is their all-time best-selling book.…Read More -
Lake Upchurch resident restores lighthouse to honor friendship
Elbert “Rex” Lucas loves to solve problems with his hands. The 76-year-old Fayetteville native worked as a heavy equipment maintenance operator for the Army. After his military service, he worked…Read More
Entertainment
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Fiesta Latina celebrates cultures and honors diversity, inclusion
Latinos United for Progress proudly announces Fayetteville’s first Fiesta Latina. The Latin community has participated in many heritage events, such as the International Folk Festival, but this is the first…Read More -
Operation InAsMuch hosts Ray's Run 5k to benefit The Lodge
Runners, walkers and volunteers will unite on Saturday, Oct. 1 for the second annual launch of Ray’s Run, a 5k benefitting upgrades at The Lodge.Operation InAsMuch runs The Lodge as…Read More -
Fayetteville Ukulele Club holds upcoming workshop
After the stresses and busyness brought on by the week, leader of the Fayetteville Ukulele Club Mary Hill said she and her group members find relief as they strum their ukuleles,…Read More -
Child Advocacy's Pinwheel Masquerade Ball and Auction raises awareness to end child abuse
The Child Advocacy Center is excited to present the Pinwheel Masquerade Ball and Auction to Unmask Child Abuse Oct. 1 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Cape Fear Botanical…Read More -
Golf Championship draws friendships, rivalries and generational competition
Before Brian Dreier worries about defending his title in the Cumberland County Golf Championship in October, he has to be the best player in his own family.Dreier won the CCGC…Read More
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