🌱 Fayetteville community remembers educator and musician Margaret Davis Dixon.

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In today's newsletter:

• Fayetteville community remembers educator and musician Margaret Davis Dixon.
• What Fayetteville patients and visitors must know about new hospital mask rules
• How Fayetteville is reclaiming the true story of Omar ibn Said

Today's riddle: What did the little needle say to the mother needle when it brought home a failing report card? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Partly sunny and very warm, with a high of 73 and low of 48 degrees.
• Friday: Mostly cloudy and cooler, temps: high: 56, low: 50.
• Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high of 74 and low of 47 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Margaret ((Davis)) Dixon (cityviewnc.com) — Fayetteville is mourning longtime educator and musician Margaret Davis Dixon, who passed away December 18 and will be honored at a January 3 celebration of life at Rogers and Breece Funeral Home. A Methodist University graduate and former Fort Bragg teacher, she leaves a legacy of Christian service, music, and early childhood education that touched families across Fayetteville and beyond.
   

2. Cape Fear Valley Health updates visitation guidelines, requiring masks in waiting rooms at all facilities (cbs17.com) — Cape Fear Valley Health in Fayetteville is tightening visitation rules and now requires masks in all waiting rooms due to rising respiratory illnesses, including influenza A. Visitors must generally be at least 12, follow stricter emergency department limits, and observe specific rules for units like NICU, pediatrics, and labor and delivery, with hours and some overnight options unchanged.
   

3. Reclaiming the Truth: The Legacy Of Scholar-Captive Omar Ibn Said (caro.news) — Community members and scholars in Fayetteville recently gathered to honor enslaved Muslim scholar Omar ibn Said, who spent his final years and died in the city. The event, led by the Muslim Wellness Foundation’s Omar ibn Said Institute, focused on correcting distorted historical narratives and reclaiming Said’s story as one of brilliance, faith, and enduring resistance.
   

4. Cities with the fastest-growing home prices in the Fayetteville, North Carolina metro area (santafenewmexican.com) — Home values across the Fayetteville metro, including the city itself, are mostly flat or slightly down over the past year, but still far above five years ago. A new Zillow-based ranking shows where nearby towns like Godwin, Raeford, and Hope Mills are seeing the biggest jumps, helping local buyers and sellers gauge how Fayetteville stacks up regionally.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday December 26

• Movie Night #3
  Segra Stadium , 460 Hay St , Fayetteville
  5:30 pm
• Wayward Blues & Co. Live!
  Dirty Whiskey Craft Cocktail Bar , 5431 Corporation Dr , Hope Mills
  8:30 pm

Saturday December 27

• Carvers Creek SP
  Carvers Creek State Park , 2505 Long Valley Rd , Spring Lake
  10:00 am
• Not Your New Year's Party
  Prima Elements Colonic & Holistic Wellness Center , 124 Anderson St , Fayetteville
  6:00 pm
• Festival of Lights 2025
  Sweet Valley Ranch , 2990 Sunnyside School Rd , Fayetteville
  6:30 pm
• Crooked Cult
  308 Coverly Square , Fayetteville
  11:30 pm

Sunday December 28

• Sunday Funday
  Parkton Animal Oasis , 1585 Armory Rd , Parkton
  1:00 pm
• Denizens – RSAS
  Red Springs Artspace , 200 S Main St , Red Springs
  2:00 pm

Monday December 29

• The Plot Thickens - Dunn
  Dunn Library , 110 E Divine St , Dunn
  11:00 am

Wednesday December 31

• LIBRARIES CLOSE @ 5:30
  Anderson Creek Primary School Media Center , 914 Anderson Creek School Road , Anderson Creek

Saturday February 21

• NC Sandhills Dryland Mushing Challenge
  1758 Vass Rd , Raeford
  2:00 pm

Friday March 13

• THE ULTIMATE TEAM EVENT — Cadre Dan
  1509 Zinnia court , Fayetteville
  3:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Please check your vehicles!
  Also please check your cameras if you have any footage of these men. They rummaged through my truck and stole my wife's car last night 12/22/25… (Nextdoor Ascot II)
• Still no luck finding my Orange cat.
  She is female and her name is literally Orange. (The one not circled in the photo) She is VERY friendly. HER SISTER & us miss her dearly. Lost… (Nextdoor Fargo)

• FAYETTEVILLE NC Dec 23 Climate: High: 64 Low: 33 Precip:" Snow: Missing... (X: iembot_rah)
• Opinion: Fayetteville wins $15M FEMA fight to fix bridges | Opinion... (X: fayobserver)

• Chili's Grill & Bar posted a job opening for Janitor - Cross Creek Chili's in Fayetteville. Apply here.
• CACI International Inc. posted a job opening for Senior Strategic Logistics Operations Integrator in Fayetteville. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Fayetteville here.

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-- The Patch AM Team

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