The Cumberland County Fair opened Friday at the Crown Complex and will run through Sept. 10. The fair celebrates the county’s agricultural heritage and combines family fun, informative agricultural exhibits, an art show and entertainment with amusement rides and food booths.

RALEIGH — State and local law enforcement officers will be out in force as part of the Labor Day Booze It & Lose It campaign, according to the N.C. Department of Transportation.

Seventy-First head football coach Duran McLaurin can’t speak for the philosophies of his fellow coaches, but when it comes to building a defense, he knows the plan that consistently works for him.

The Greater Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce held its annual State of the Community luncheon on Thursday at the Crown Complex Expo Center.  With about 600 people in attendance, according to according to the chamber’s Facebook page, organizers said it was the largest crowd in the history of the gathering. The audience included Fayetteville city, Cumberland County and state officials; business leaders; and public schools administrators.

Fayetteville Public Works Commission is one of 15 public power communities in the state to receive a 2022 Public Power Award of Excellence. ElectriCities of North Carolina presented the awards at its annual conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,

Here are stat summaries from this week’s Cumberland County Schools football games as submitted by the coaches: Gray’s Creek 47, Red Springs 19 Gray’s Creek Javon …

Enduring threads of North Carolina’s past — such as bygone industries and separate public schools for whites, Blacks and Native Americans — still affect older state residents, as harmful holdovers and even, in some cases, as positive forces

I always cringe as scores come in on the first night of high school football season and I’m keeping a record of my initial picks. That first week is always the toughest. You’re going on expectation, anticipation and team history when making decisions.

Here are my picks for Cumberland County’s high school Athletes of the Week: Christian Rutledge, South View, football Taylor Baggett, Gray’s Creek, volleyball Rutledge carried the ball 21 times for 178 yards and …

If Doug Caudill has a coach’s shirt in his closet for every school he’s coached, opening the door is like looking at a rainbow. This year marks the 50th that the veteran coach is pursuing his favorite job of working with a football team.

Cumberland County officials and representatives of EwingCole, a national architectural design firm, revealed the design schematics for the proposed Crown Event Center, a theater and entertainment facility planned for downtown Fayetteville, at Monday’s meeting of the county commissioners.

The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners met Monday. Here’s a summary of what transpired.

The Cumberland County Department of Public Health is partnering with the public school system to hold evening clinics for back-to-school and COVID-19 immunization clinics for schoolchildren and teenagers in grades kindergarten through 12.

The high school football season kicked off Friday night with a full slate of games in Cumberland County. Here are game stats and scoring from Friday’s games as provided by the coaches. …

The wait is finally over. The 2023 high school football season has arrived with a full schedule of games tonight. Here’s a preview of the 10 Cumberland County senior high school football teams. Best wishes to all the players and coaches for an outstanding season.

Once again, I risk the wrath of fans and coaches as I make a fool of myself trying to forecast the outcome of weekly high school football games. For the record, don’t read anything into this beyond a guy who loves high school football trying to make an informed choice about who will win on Friday nights.

Always the educator, Erica Fenner-McAdoo left the 2023 Convocation and Cumberland County Schools Premier Professionals “red carpet” awards reception with a lesson and a challenge for the hundreds of principals, assistant principals, teachers and teacher assistants who gathered Tuesday at the Crown Complex ballroom.

With extreme heat forecast for the remainder of the week, Cumberland County and the city of Fayetteville will extend the availability of government buildings as cooling stations through Aug. 20 for …

Cumberland County tax bills were mailed to property owners on Aug. 11, according to a county news release. The deadline to pay 2023 property taxes is Jan. 5. After that, a 2% interest charge will be assessed the first month and a 0.75% interest charge each month thereafter, beginning Feb. 1, the news release said.

Detectives are seeking the public’s help to identify suspects in the theft of a food truck on Cumberland Road. The truck was stolen about 10 p.m. July 22 from Tropical Caribbean Cuisine, according to a news release from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.

A man wanted for questioning in the case of a missing toddler in Linden handed her over to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday night.

Fayetteville Public Works Commission recognized more than 200 employees Wednesday morning for their hard work and dedication as the front line of environmental defense during the inaugural Wastewater Professionals Day.

According to research by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, recent moves by the Biden administration to deliver high-speed internet to rural communities will do more than connect homes to the internet: It may improve rural health. Associate Professor Carrie Henning-Smith with the university’s School of Public Health said in an interview with The Daily Yonder that access to high-speed internet will affect rural health in a number of ways, including direct access as well as more indirect health outcome-affecting factors.

Despite the fact that the public health emergency has ended and life has more or less gone back to normal for most people, COVID-19 is still around. And cases are on the rise across Cumberland County.

The National Weather Service in Raleigh has issued a heat advisory for three days beginning Saturday. Heat index values will be over 100 degrees on Saturday through Tuesday, according to a Cumberland County news release.