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Paul Woolverton
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Reporter for CityView — a local news website, newsletter and magazine in Fayetteville NC, and part The Assembly magazine's network of North Carolina news outlets.

Etc: Retrocomputers, community theater.
TIL an old microwave oven can spontaneously try to set itself on fire.
The microwave in my office's kitchen did this today.
No flames (that I saw) but lots of smoke.
It was made in October 2004.

(Image is not the actual microwave... was made with AI for illustrative purposes)
June 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Downtown Fayetteville is tracking to get a new mural (pictured) to help celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of our country.

Read all about it:
www.cityviewnc.com/stories/mura...

For word nerds, the 250th is the Semiquincentennial. You may also see America 250.
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April 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Fayetteville police chief says that since 2014, crime in the city has dropped 35 percent

Read all about it:
www.cityviewnc.com/stories/poli...

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February 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Pro tip for content creators when doing an item about Fayetteville NC and you want a picture of a downtown street to go with it:

Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh is not in the City of Fayetteville.
January 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Does this from the Carolina Vote Tracker mean that after provisional ballots, etc. were counted over the past few weeks, the GOP pulled back into 1st place in NC for early voting?
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carolinaelections.com/tracker/61?b...
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December 4, 2024 at 8:33 PM