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1 month ago | 
cityviewnc.com | Morgan Casey
The Cumberland County Department of Public Health is following five bills introduced in the N.C. House of Representatives. If passed, the bills would make a range of changes, from raising the age of legal tobacco sales to broadening student vaccine exemptions. HB197, filed in February, would provide $25 million in recurring funds to county health departments to help address communicable diseases.
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1 month ago | 
cityviewnc.com | Morgan Casey
The Cumberland County Department of Public Health and Cape Fear Valley Health released the county’s latest Community Health Needs Assessment earlier this month. The 138-page report specifies what health issues the department and its partners will focus on for the next three years until the next assessment is completed.
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1 month ago | 
cityviewnc.com | Morgan Casey
The nonprofit Teach Me 2 Tie Inc. will host a one-day self-worth workshop for fourth- and fifth-grade boys from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 22, at 5766 Rockfish Road in Hope Mills. The nonprofit’s founder Brandon McLean will teach youth positive self-talk and how to tie a tie as part of his I Am Me initiative. “Young young men, we’ve heard different things about who we are which aren’t necessarily true,” McLean said.
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1 month ago | 
cityviewnc.com | Morgan Casey
It’s been five months since county officials cut the ribbon to open the Cumberland-Fayetteville Recovery Resource Center. On Friday, March 21, the center’s staff and partners will formally welcome community members to the center through a celebratory resource fair. “We’re going to offer a kind of fellowship,” Greg Berry, the Cumberland-Fayetteville Opioid Response Team (C-FORT) coordinator, said when presenting the event at a recent meeting.
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1 month ago | 
cityviewnc.com | Morgan Casey
Tomatoes, peppers, carrots and other produce will soon arrive at a trailer home neighborhood off Rim Road. But it’s not from a new grocery store or government initiative. It’s from community members who are pitching in seeds, soil and labor to plant and manage gardens in residents’ yards. The mutual aid network was formed through the Crashout Gardening Project by the nonprofit Er’Body Eatz and its founder J’Kwan Fulmore.
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2 months ago | 
cityviewnc.com | Morgan Casey
Under the Biden administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers couldn’t make arrests in churches, schools and hospitals. These places, called “protected areas,” were off-limits for immigration enforcement. Now, they’re fair game for an ICE officer to enter as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security rescinded the protected areas order. As a result, immigrants across the state are increasingly fearful of deportation.
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2 months ago | 
cityviewnc.com | Morgan Casey
Cape Fear Valley Health’s simulation center on Owen Drive was one of 64 training facilities recognized this year by Becker’s Hospital Review, a health industry trade publication. The publication told CityView it spotlighted the simulation center because it creates a safe, controlled learning environment for residents to practice their skills, enhancing patient safety and outcomes.
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2 months ago | 
cityviewnc.com | Morgan Casey
After facing neighborhood opposition, a company that converts waste to energy is abandoning its plans for downtown Fayetteville. About 40 people gathered in the old sanctuary of Second Missionary Baptist Church on Thursday to speak out against Waste Energy Corp’s plan to operate a facility on South Cool Spring Street in a predominantly Black and lower income neighborhood. “We agree to pull out,” said Scott Gallagher, chief executive of Waste Energy Corp.
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2 months ago | 
cityviewnc.com | Morgan Casey
Year after year, Cumberland County ranks among the worst in North Carolina for health outcomes. The county had one of the highest overdose death rates in the state in 2023. Last year, it had the highest preterm birth rate. These are just some of the challenges Nicole Beckwith hopes to address through her work as the Cumberland County Public Health Partnership Hub coordinator. Cumberland County was one of four counties selected as a location for UNC’s Public Health Partnership Hubs.
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2 months ago | 
upandcomingweekly.com | Morgan Casey
The Orange Street School served generations of Black students before it fell into disrepair. Now, 110 years after it opened, the revitalized two-story brick building at 600 Orange Street is again ready to educate. With a four-year, $1.45 million renovation complete, the building will now serve as a community center focused on children and teens who can use the space to explore their creativity in a new music lab, work with mentors and build skills in technology and the arts.
