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.
The official dress rehearsal for the Cumberland County Schools high school football season takes place Friday night with separate evenings of preseason scrimmages involving all 10 schools and several outside schools invited to fill out the schedule.
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office is asking that a manslaughter charge be filed against a juvenile in connection with the July 27 shooting death of an 8-year-old girl. Jenesis Dockery died after suffering a gunshot wound in the 3300 block of Mercedes Drive in Fayetteville, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
The Cumberland County Board of Education met Tuesday after a monthlong summer break to discuss the upcoming school year and plans for new and old buildings. Superintendent Marvin Connelly Jr. …
After a break from meetings in the month of July, the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners on Monday discussed the 2024 fiscal year budget, made some appointments, and presented a national achievement award.
With its animal shelter currently at capacity, Cumberland County Animal Services is waiving adoption fees through Aug. 31, according to a county news release. Animal Services is participating in the nationwide Clear the Shelters campaign this month.
Cumberland County high schools started the official countdown to the 2023 football season Monday with the first day of preseason workouts. Here’s a brief recap of how things went on opening day.
An 8-year-old girl has died after suffering a gunshot wound Tuesday in the 3300 block of Mercedes Drive in Fayetteville, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.
Five of seven Cumberland County commissioners take advantage of health insurance provided by the county. They are, according to a county spokesman, Toni Stewart, the commission chairwoman; Glenn Adams, the commission vice chairman; and Commissioners Marshall Faircloth, Jimmy Keefe and Michael Boose. Commissioners Jeannette Council and Veronica Jones do not take part in the health insurance option.
Most Cumberland County high school football players spend time during June and July with informal offseason conditioning workouts to prepare for the official start of fall practice about Aug. 1. But Keith Tillett, a running back candidate at Jack Britt High School, took two weeks out of his summer for a drastic departure from the practice field.
With municipal elections this fall and the presidential and state elections coming in 2024, Cumberland County is dealing with a shortage of poll workers — 1,200 of them, according to Elections Director Angie Amaro. “We generally have a shortage, but not this bad,” Amaro said of the current situation.
ELIZABETHTOWN — Fayetteville Technical Community College and Bladen Community College have partnered to increase truck-driver training in the region. The colleges made the agreement made the agreement official Wednesday in a signing ceremony at BCC. The arrangement allows students enrolled at either school to use FTCC’s truck-driving instruction facility.
Parents of children who attend Beaver Dam Elementary School have been warned about high levels of lead in the water there. Chipped paint at the school prompted the Cumberland County Department of Public Health to test for lead in the water of the school in the southeastern part of the county.
The field is set. Filing for upcoming municipal elections ended at noon Friday, with Charles Evans making his bid for mayor official and four more candidates signing up to run for a seat on the Fayetteville City Council.
Candidates have until noon today to file for municipal offices in Cumberland County, according to the Board of Elections. As the filing period neared its end Thursday, two more challengers emerged for the District 2 Fayetteville City Council seat; the Hope Mills commissioners race gained two hopefuls; and a challenger filed to become mayor of Spring Lake.
