How a Fayetteville church wants to memorialize its former pastor

Multiple members of Highway Holiness Church of Deliverance in Fayetteville, want to honor the church’s founder and pastor, Bishop James P. “J.P.” Swinson by renaming a local street But Fayetteville City Council members were split down the middle during a vote Monday night to change the name. Swinson died Dec. 21, 2020, and for the second time since his death, members of his congregation at 2725 Providence St. have sought to rename the street to JP Swinson Street. The road is a few streets away from the Murchison Road corridor....