Bill Kirby Jr.

1 day ago | cityviewnc.com | Bill Kirby Jr.

You can learn something about someone at a Celebration of Life when family and friends come to bid their farewells. This old church with the towering steeple on Westmont Drive in Fayetteville was a testament Monday to the life of Grant Singleton III. From the altar to the balcony, this sanctuary was overflowing with those paying final respects, and they sat shoulder to shoulder in almost every pew. “He doesn’t want to be remembered for his diagnosis,” daughter Sebrell Trask Singleton told us.

4 days ago | cityviewnc.com | Bill Kirby Jr.

Although the late Temple Bailey never married or bore children, she was the talented American novelist who gave sons and daughters one of the more poignant gifts in honoring motherhood. Hers was the creative publication of “A Little Parable for Mothers” in 1933 for Good Housekeeping Magazine, which withstood the test of time in describing a mother’s journey through life.

6 days ago | cityviewnc.com | Bill Kirby Jr.

More than 500 Methodist University graduates earned doctorate, master’s, bachelor’s and associate degrees on May 3 in the spring commencement held at the Crown Coliseum. “You don’t have to change the whole world,” keynote speaker Scott Hamilton, president and chief executive officer of the Golden LEAF Foundation, told the graduates.

1 week ago | cityviewnc.com | Bill Kirby Jr.

It was almost a perfect evening on the second day of the 43rd Annual Fayetteville Dogwood Festival. Just five months since taking over as the festival executive director, Kaylynn Suarez could not have asked for more as festivalgoers on April 26 spent most of the day strolling the downtown streets and many later finding their place on the lawn looking in anticipation of more live musical entertainment in Festival Park.

1 week ago | cityviewnc.com | Bill Kirby Jr.

Our Fayetteville mayor is fed up with gun violence in the city. Mitch Colvin says he has seen enough, and the gunfire that interrupted the 43rd annual Fayetteville Dogwood Festival on April 26 and sent festivalgoers fleeing out of Fayetteville Plaza Park is what you might describe as the proverbial final straw.