The Fayetteville Observer
Fayetteville Mayor Mitch Colvin said Friday that private donors will reimburse the city government to replace the Black Lives Do Matter/End Racism Now” mural downtown.
The City Council agreed to bring back the mural surrounding the Market House at a special meeting Wednesday night. The mural was removed Jan. 11, just days after the insurrection at the Capitol and days before Martin Luther King Jr. s birthday. Many people said they were upset about the timing of the removal, for which Colvin apologized. Myself and several members of the business community will reimburse the city for the expenses related to the mural replacement. We feel this is necessary to help stay focused on the big picture, which is ending systemic racism and facilitating community reconciliation, Colvin wrote in his announcement.
A new fiber-optic internet, television and phone service company is coming to Fayetteville, the Fayetteville-Cumberland County Economic Development Corp. announced Tuesday.
MetroNet and the city of Fayetteville are bringing the service to the region, making it MetroNet’s first expansion in North Carolina, officials said.
The Indiana-based company will spend more than $70 million on the project, which will serve Fayetteville, the towns of Hope Mills, Linden, Wade, Stedman, Godwin, Eastover, Falcon, Spring Lake, Vander, much of unincorporated Cumberland County and portions of Hoke County to include Raeford and Rockfish, officials said.
MetroNet President John Cinelli said projects of similar size usually take about two years.
The ABC11 data team looked into how much of the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on hand the largest counties in our viewing area have actually administered.
These percentages are for those in Phase 1a, (which includes health care workers fighting COVID-19 and long-term care staff and residents) but don t include the doses for those living and working in long-term care facilities. These numbers from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services were last updated Tuesday so the percentages are likely higher now.
Wake County: 47%
Cumberland County: 35%
A Wake County spokesperson said they should now be closer to about 51 percent and that they are working to vaccinate the right people as quickly as possible. With Wake County s large population and the number of healthcare systems, this takes longer than in smaller counties, a spokesperson said.