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Downtown Fayetteville business owners and visitors have raised concerns about a group of street preachers.

The preachers have been accused of verbal abuse, making racial comments and disrupting business.

Previous attempts by business owners to address the issue with city officials and police have been unsuccessful.

Street preachers are no strangers to downtown environments, and Fayetteville has its share of people sharing their beliefs ... loudly. They are loud to try to get people's attention.

And even that does not work much of the time.

I lived downtown for several years, so people yelling various things — including some of the unhoused — became part of the landscape, like the trains. I tune them out.

But some downtown business owners and visitors say you can'

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