Evey Weisblat

Fayetteville

Local Government Reporter at CityView Magazine

Reporter at CityView, the Fayetteville bureau of @TheAssemblyNC, covering local government, environment, military, etc

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Articles

Fayetteville's unfinished fire station has turned into a legal standoff

1 week ago | cityviewnc.com | Evey Weisblat

Driving along Bragg Boulevard toward Fort Bragg, motorists might notice a brick building with red paint and a large black number 4 printed inside a white circle. Upon closer inspection, passersby may discern the building’s state of disrepair: several missing sections, exposed building materials and unfinished masonry. Gaping holes where doors and windows should be. Exposed cement sheathing with a few pads of insulation sporadically laid over it. Steel poles left in the dirt, rusting in the sun.
SRO model still undecided for next school year

2 weeks ago | cityviewnc.com | Evey Weisblat

The three-ring circus surrounding who will provide school resource officers to Cumberland County Schools continues, as elected officials and administrated leaders butted heads over the future of SRO coverage at a joint city-county meeting Tuesday.
Protestors demand action on 'forever chemical' pollution crisis

2 weeks ago | cityviewnc.com | Evey Weisblat

On a patch of grass in front of the Public Works Commission in Fayetteville, a few dozen community members gathered Saturday morning to protest the widespread and continued contamination of the local environment with “forever chemicals,” also known as PFAS.
Expanded well testing for PFAS: what you need to know

3 weeks ago | cityviewnc.com | Evey Weisblat

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) recently announced that 150,000 additional residents near Chemours’ Fayetteville Works plant now qualify to have their wells tested by the company, which is responsible for contaminating drinking water in the Cape Fear River Basin with toxic “forever chemicals.”The expanded testing range includes households as far as 30 miles from the plant, reaching in all directions, that rely on private well water in Hoke and Harnett Counties.
PFAS found in dust of homes near Fayetteville chemical plant

3 weeks ago | cityviewnc.com | Evey Weisblat

Dust containing PFAS that are manufactured by the Fayetteville Works plant has been detected in Cumberland County homes near the Chemours factory, according to a research paper published Monday. The researchers’ findings mean that Chemours’ PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, have been discovered in the air, water, soil, blood — and now homes — of those living near the fluorochemical plant.
Wife of dead Green Beret appears in court on murder charge

3 weeks ago | cityviewnc.com | Evey Weisblat |Paul Woolverton

Shana LeaCloud will remain behind bars while she awaits trial on charges of killing her husband, retired Special Forces soldier Clinton Bonnell. Cloud, 50, let her lawyer speak for her in a Cumberland County courtroom on Monday where she made her first appearance before a judge following her arrest on Friday. She is charged with first-degree murder and violating state law against concealing a death, disturbing human remains and dismembering human remains. Bonnell was last seen on Jan.
Students may have fewer options for local produce at school now

3 weeks ago | cityviewnc.com | Evey Weisblat

The Trump administration’s sudden termination of a federal program in early March has restricted Cumberland County Schools’ ability to provide more fresh, local produce to its students. Cumberland County Schools received funding through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement program, a pandemic-era program intended to strengthen local food systems and provide nutritious food to schools.
Fayetteville State University gets NCInnovation hub

4 weeks ago | cityviewnc.com | Evey Weisblat

Fayetteville State University researchers will get a boost with the establishment of an innovation hub providing grants and support services to commercialize public university research. FSU Chancellor Darrell Allison announced the Fayetteville hub of NCInnovation, a state-funded nonprofit, at the Fayetteville City Council meeting Monday.
Four say they are in the 2025 election for Fayetteville mayor

1 month ago | cityviewnc.com | Evey Weisblat |Paul Woolverton

At least four people have indicated they will run for mayor of Fayetteville this year. The election is in November. The candidates are:Four-term Mayor Mitch Colvin. There has been speculation that Colvin will not run this year. “Assume I’m running until I say otherwise,” he told CityView. Five-term City Council Member Kathy Keefe Jensen of City Council District 1. She is the mayor pro tem. Jensen told CityView last week she plans to run. City Council Member Mario “Be” Benavente of Council District 3.
State regulators consider lax regulations for PFAS polluters

1 month ago | cityviewnc.com | Evey Weisblat

Factories that release PFAS into North Carolina’s waterways could be left to their own devices under a new proposal by state bureaucrats overseeing water quality. The N.C. Environmental Management Commission (EMC), responsible for regulating the state’s water resources, is considering a proposal to have producers of “forever chemicals” self-report PFAS levels in water they discharge from their factories.