Fayetteville’s SmartNews newspaper office burns
Jim McBee, managing editor of Fayetteville’s SmartNews, posted to his FaceBook page Monday night:
You may know that I telecommute for the SmartNews job. I thought it’d be good to head up for a bit to work in the office, get a little face time in. Got in town Sunday evening. Around 1:30 a.m. I got a call from the owner to tell me the building our office is in is burning down. It’s a total loss.
SmartNews reported overnight on its web site:
Fire destroyed The Gas House building at 150 Rowan St. early Monday morning. Among the businesses inside the building were Shabby Rose and other antique mall tenants, Holly’s Cafe, businessman John Malzone’s office and the SmartNews headquarters.
Cause of the blaze was under investigation.
…The blaze did not affect SmartNews’ ability to publish papers. “Fortunately, our key computers were safe and outside the building,” said Randy Foster, editor and co-publisher of SmartNews.
Read all about it on the SmartNews web site.
Read the Fayetteville Observer’s coverage of the fire.
Read our previous post about SmartNews here.
