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Officials in the Fayetteville area don’t want the Town of Fuquay-Varina near Raleigh to pull up to 6.17 million gallons ...
11/24/2025

Officials in the Fayetteville area don’t want the Town of Fuquay-Varina near Raleigh to pull up to 6.17 million gallons of water a day from the Cape Fear River Basin.

Fuquay-Varina is asking the state Department of Environmental Quality for permission to increase its interbasin transfer—a transfer of water from one river basin to another—because the fast-growing Wake County town anticipates it will need more water as soon as 2030. Under state law, the DEQ must approve interbasin transfers.

The town currently pulls 2 million gallons per day from the Cape Fear River Basin and discharges its treated wastewater into the Neuse River Basin instead of returning it to the Cape Fear.

✍ Written by Paul Woolverton
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Fayetteville leaders trying to stop Fuquay-Varina from taking water away from the Cape Fear River. Public hearing is December 4.

All four newly elected commissioners—Hope Page, Grilley Mitchell, Cynthia Hamilton, and Lisa Tremmel—attended last week'...
11/24/2025

All four newly elected commissioners—Hope Page, Grilley Mitchell, Cynthia Hamilton, and Lisa Tremmel—attended last week's regular board meeting in Town Hall, though not yet in their official capacity.

It was a light business agenda for commissioners as the current board conducted their last full meeting of this term. New members, who will be sworn in on December 1 at Town Hall, sat in the audience.

Commissioner Bryan Marley was absent because of his full-time job and Mayor Pro Tem Kenjuana McCray participated by phone.

✍ Written by Jason Canady
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Four incoming commissioners observed the final meeting of the current board, with a swearing-in and reorganization set for December 1.

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11/24/2025

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Before the cameras roll, before the microphones click on, and before the public meetings begin, the Fayetteville City Co...
11/23/2025

Before the cameras roll, before the microphones click on, and before the public meetings begin, the Fayetteville City Council gathers in a cramped room on the third floor of City Hall.

These sessions are the council’s little-known dinner meetings. For nearly two decades, the gatherings have quietly shaped city policy—all without livestreams, video or audio archives, or easy public access.

The dinner meetings are where council members ask questions, rehearse talking points, and sometimes strategize what they’ll say later in the first-floor city council chamber where the public is watching.

✍ Written by Rachel Heimann Mercader
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Former mayors said the dinner meeting was created to help unprepared council members. But over time, it’s morphed into something more opaque.

The Fayetteville City Council and Cumberland County Board of Commissioners each voted unanimously on Thursday to combine...
11/20/2025

The Fayetteville City Council and Cumberland County Board of Commissioners each voted unanimously on Thursday to combine their 911 call centers, but they disagreed on how to govern the consolidated service.

At issue: Whether the city and the county would jointly operate the combined call center, or, instead, have one local government operate it. Under both arrangements, the costs would be split 50-50 between the city and the county, according to a presentation made at the two board’s joint meeting.

The positions:
- The county commissioners voted 6-0, with one commissioner absent, to have the city and county jointly oversee the call center. This was recommended by county Emergency Services Director Garry Crumpler.
- The city council voted 6-2, with two members absent, to have the city solely be in charge. This was recommended by Fayetteville Police Chief Roberto Bryan and Fire Chief Kevin Dove. An effort by the council to reconsider that decision failed with a 4-4 vote.

✍ Written by Paul Woolverton
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Fayetteville and Cumberland County want to combine their two 911 call centers into one. But they disagree over who should be in charge.

The Greater Fayetteville Chamber Military Affairs Council will host a food drive on Thursday, benefitting Fort Bragg Arm...
11/20/2025

The Greater Fayetteville Chamber Military Affairs Council will host a food drive on Thursday, benefitting Fort Bragg Armed Services YMCA, to support service members, their families, and veterans who are struggling with food insecurity or financial hardship as the holiday season draws near.

The drive, called Operation Patriot Pantry, will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Highland Shopping Center parking lot located at 2800 Raeford Road in Fayetteville. Donations will be collected in a moving truck provided by the moving company Two Men and a Truck. The drive aims to collect non-perishable food items that will be distributed by the Armed Services YMCA (ASYMCA) on Fort Bragg.

Jeremy Hester, executive director of the ASYMCA, told CityView the drive aims to collect “shelf-stable, healthy items.” Though the drive is focused on collecting food items, other donations like baby items and hygiene products will also be accepted, said Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Ferd Irizarry, chair of the Military Affairs Council.

✍ Written by Trey Nemec
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On Nov. 20, the Greater Fayetteville Chamber Military Affairs Council will host a food drive with the Fort Bragg Armed Services YMCA.

The final segment of Interstate 295—the Fayetteville Outer Loop—is scheduled to open with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1...
11/20/2025

The final segment of Interstate 295—the Fayetteville Outer Loop—is scheduled to open with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Tuesday, the North Carolina Department of Transportation said on Wednesday.

The ceremony, to take place on the new segment, is only open to invited guests. After the ceremony ends and is cleared, the highway will open to traffic, DOT spokesperson Andrew Barksdale said.

This last segment is opening earlier than planned. The DOT in 2022 estimated the last 5 miles, between Raeford Road in west Fayetteville and Camden Road west of Hope Mills, would be finished in summer 2026.

✍ Written by Paul Woolverton
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After more than 26 years of construction, the Interstate 295 Fayetteville Outer Loop is scheduled be finished on Tuesday.

The inaugural Haymount Fall Pop-Up Market hosted by Riverwood Events was held on Saturday, Oct. 4, at LWood Media Group ...
11/19/2025

The inaugural Haymount Fall Pop-Up Market hosted by Riverwood Events was held on Saturday, Oct. 4, at LWood Media Group on Fort Bragg Road.

📸 Photography by James Throssel
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The inaugural Haymount Fall Pop-Up Market hosted by Riverwood Events was held on Saturday, Oct. 4, at LWood Media Group on Fort Bragg Road.

COLUMN: You can almost smell the aroma of the late Pete Parrous’ secret recipe spaghetti sauce emanating today from the ...
11/19/2025

COLUMN: You can almost smell the aroma of the late Pete Parrous’ secret recipe spaghetti sauce emanating today from the church along Oakmont Avenue in Haymount.

Suffice it to say, Jerry Anagnostopoulos, Tony Kotsopoulos, Chris Vlachos, Spero Poulos, John Frangakis, Deno Frangakis, Deno “Pete” Skenteris, Dino “George” Skenteris, Deno Hondros and Tasos Hasapis are among the many volunteers up to their collective necks in pasta and tomato sauce for The World’s Largest Spaghetti Dinner and Greek Pastry Sale, which is scheduled from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. at Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, 614 Oakridge Ave.

“We have 2,500 pounds of dry pasta and 900 gallons of meat sauce,” says Anagnostopoulos, 41, who, along with Kotsopoulos, is co-chair of the 66th consecutive renewal of the pasta extravaganza (circa 1958), which has evolved into something of a Fayetteville rite each November. Kotsopoulos is the son-in-law of Pete Parrous.

✍ Written by Bill Kirby Jr.
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The World’s Largest Spaghetti Dinner and Greek Pastry Sale is scheduled from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Wednesday at Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church.

When a viral post calling for a statewide teacher walkout began circulating earlier this month, educators across North C...
11/19/2025

When a viral post calling for a statewide teacher walkout began circulating earlier this month, educators across North Carolina started asking questions: Who posted this? Is it real? and Are we actually doing this?

Teachers first spotted the call to action in a Wake County Facebook group, a detail reported by WRAL, which noted that no organizer or advocacy group claimed responsibility for the post.

Walkouts occurred in counties like Wake, Durham, and Guilford, but Cumberland County seemed mostly quiet.

✍ Written by Dasia Williams
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As a teacher walkout gained traction statewide, Cumberland County educators reveal why local participation remained limited.

COLUMN: Remember those big, fat newspapers that landed on your front porch with a mighty thud? They were filled with new...
11/18/2025

COLUMN: Remember those big, fat newspapers that landed on your front porch with a mighty thud? They were filled with news and advertising, with information you needed to navigate life in your community, with entertainment like comics and crosswords, with the latest sports scores and up-to-date TV listings.

For most of my life, they were essential. When I was a kid, my parents got two of them—morning and evening papers—and a third paper on Sundays. They spent hours every day devouring them; they used them to teach me to read, even before I headed off to kindergarten. As I went through high school and college, they were my primary source of information about the world around me.

And then they became my livelihood, first as a reporter and photographer, and then, for decades, as an editor.

✍ Written by Tim White
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Sen. Thom Tillis is holding up Mississippi’s nominations for federal judgeships and U.S. attorneys because he wants Sen....
11/18/2025

Sen. Thom Tillis is holding up Mississippi’s nominations for federal judgeships and U.S. attorneys because he wants Sen. Roger Wicker to help an indigenous group in North Carolina gain federal recognition as a tribe.

Tillis, a Republican, told NOTUS that his block on four Mississippi nominees is due to negotiations with Wicker, Mississippi’s senior senator, over federal recognition of the Lumbee and other issues unrelated to the nominees. Wicker serves as chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which has enormous sway over the legislation in which the Lumbee Tribe would be recognized.

“Roger’s one of my favorite people here, and, you know, it’s just a matter of using the leverage people use every day here,” Tillis said.

✍ Written by Taylor Vance and Christa Dutton
🔗 Read more at the link below.

Thom Tillis is holding up nominations in the senate because he wants Roger Wicker to help the Lumbee tribe gain federal recognition.

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