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Mystery of missing youths stirs troubling memories of 60 years ago

Just like the Westerfield brothers, Blake Devin and London Deven are missing.

City makes Interim Attorney Lachelle Pulliam permanent

Interim City Attorney Lachelle H. Pulliam will become Fayetteville’s permanent city attorney, Mayor Mitch Colvin said in a surprise announcement at the end of Monday’s Fayetteville City Council meeting.

The Cumberland County Board of Education will receive Tuesday Superintendent Dr. Marvin Connelly Jr.’s proposed $602.3 million budget for fiscal year 2024-25.

New police chief introduced in Spring Lake

Former State Bureau of Investigations Special Agent Errol Jarman will serve as Spring Lake’s interim police chief, the Board of Aldermen announced Monday night.

'Fastest puzzler' contest set for Saturday

Think you have what it takes to be the fastest puzzler at the library? Find out during East Regional Library’s friendly jigsaw puzzle contest, coming Saturday, April 13 at 3:30 p.m. …

Board to consider assist from economic development consulting firm

At the Spring Lake Board of Aldermen’s work session scheduled for Monday, town officials will consider options for strategic action planning to include economic development. Board members …

The Fayetteville City Council will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday.

Highly unusual: Independent candidate poised to run for Congress

Shelane Etchison did a rare thing: She gathered enough signatures to get on the ballot for the 9th Congressional District election without belonging to a political party.

Fayetteville’s sister city awaits a local high school student studying French

Parlez-vous français? Are you a Cumberland County high school student learning the language and about the French culture? If you are, the Fayetteville-Saint-Avold Friendship Alliance is offering you quite the scholarship opportunity to further your studies.

Appeals Court upholds conviction in Gerald Gillespie murder case

In January 2017, retired school teacher and Army Special Forces veteran Gerald Gillespie, 86, was stabbed to death in his apartment off Owen Drive in the Bordeaux area of Fayetteville.

Fayetteville State faculty issue ‘no confidence’ vote on provost

The Faculty Senate at Fayetteville State University on Friday approved a “no confidence” resolution regarding the leadership of Provost Monica Terrell Leach, the school’s chief academic officer.

With three weeks to go until Fayetteville’s Dogwood Festival — without an executive director — two former festival executive directors have become tangled in a legal battle surrounding accusations on social media posts.

In the latest chapter of the years-long saga surrounding E.E. Smith High School’s relocation, a local real estate investor has offered two parcels in the Murchison Road area — but Cumberland County officials don’t appear interested.

Fayetteville misses state audit submission deadline, again

Fayetteville has missed the deadline to submit its annual audit to the state for the second time in a row.

Late coach 'Jimmy V' being remembered by N.C. State fans

N.C. State fans are paying tribute and respect to the late Jim Valvano’s grave at Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh as the Wolfpack men’s basketball team (26-14) prepares for Saturday’s Final Four appearance against Purdue (33-4) in the NCAA semifinals at State Farm Stadium in Phoenix.

Fayetteville State faculty plan ‘no confidence’ vote on university provost

Faculty at Fayetteville State University will hold a no confidence vote on Friday regarding Provost Monica Terrell Leach, the school’s chief academic officer.

Mark your calendars! Here are some events happening in and around Fayetteville this month. For more events and additional information, visit www.cityviewnc.com/calendar. 

Ask Solid Waste Management Operation Supervisor Tim Middleton about the state of illegal dumping in Cumberland County, and he’ll immediately shake his head and sigh. 

City votes down resolution to support immigrant communities in city

The Fayetteville City Council on Monday voted against adopting a “resolution in support of immigrant communities in Fayetteville,” killing the motion to adopt the symbolic gesture with a 4-4 a split vote.

During Monday’s board meeting, Hope Mills commissioners discussed the outcome of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling over public officials’ free speech rights — with a connection to Hope Mills. 

Coming off the heels of a Thursday community-wide discussion on Fayetteville’s Office of Community Safety, the city plans to hold a summit on the proposed public safety alternative at the close of this month, the City Manager’s Office announced Monday.

County board addresses ‘selfish and lazy’ illegal dumping

Cumberland County Commissioner Jimmy Keefe had some choice words for illegal dumpers at Monday’s board of commissioners meeting. 

The Fayetteville City Council will meet at 2 p.m. Monday.

Board to discuss relocation of towns’ tennis courts

Hope Mills commissioners will discuss the relocation of the town’s tennis courts to the Golfview Greenway and a new street maintenance policy at the board’s 7 p.m. meeting Monday at Town Hall.

Cumberland County commissioners will consider a resolution Monday that would change the county’s sales tax distribution method, according to a March 26 memorandum from County Attorney Rick Moorefield.

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