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The MI-Connection cable system, owned by Davidson and Mooresville, has issued its first quarterly progress report, including a review of financial results that it says shows the sytem is ahead of budget. The report also says subscribers have risen 4.9 percent since the towns acquired the system in December, to the current 15,826. And officials say the planned system upgrade is on schedule. Read the rest of this post »

Shhh!  Keep your voice down if you have to walk through the Davidson College campus this weekend as the exam period begins Friday morning. That means a quiet weekend and no home sports for the Wildcats.  However, the rest of us can enjoy the new Farmer’s Market Saturday, live music at Summit Coffee weekend evenings, a major animal adoption fair in Cornelius and an arts jam at Cannon School.  If the weather cooperates, Sunday will feature Band of Oz at the first Concert on the Green for 2008.
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Tuesday’s primary election trained the national spotlight on North Carolina to see who would be the Tar Heel Democrats’ presidential preference.   Davidson was among the places visited by Associated Press photographers covering the event.  Check out the May 6 USA Today lead webpage photo of Mary Jo Clark of Davidson getting a college student registered.

Also see below for a Lake Norman web diary of the campaign, a student organizer’s comments and the percentage breakdown of the local Obama vote. Read the rest of this post »

Get out your fanciest dog collar, or make plans to adopt a cute pooch or kitten as pets and animal care will be the focus of a fair Saturday at Bailey Road park in Cornelius. 

The Best Friends Super Adoption Pet Fair will kick off with a “Strut Your Mutt” march, with registration starting at 9 a.m. and prizes for the first three finishers and the best dressed canine.  The $20 entrance fee for the march will benefit spay/neuter programs in the Lake Norman area. 

The fair will feature hundreds of pets of all varieties, plus vendors, clinics, refreshments and more, running from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. at the Bailey Road Park football field.

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Warm beautiful weather and LOTS of activities have made the past week fly by. Thank heavens we can now relax following the NC primary and let the telephone take a rest from automated calls during the dinner hour! Due to the many events in Davidson in the past seven days, this week’s Around Davidson will cover lots of ground - from the new pastor at DCPC to Melissa and Brad Reddick’s new baby to a new baseball scholorship in honor of Will Dubose - with more photos and less copy. Hope our readers will take time to study the many faces featured and congratulate each in the coming days on a “job well done!”

Our lead-in photo does not feature a face but rather a “face of nature” found in the beautiful wisteria brightening our town’s landscape in so many places. Read the rest of this post »

Charlie Hepper, Frank Holder, and Jim Mead work on Fisher Farm trails.

BY NATHAN HARTLE
DavidsonNews.net

Residents wishing to lend a hand in the development of Fisher Farm Park have found a new way to pitch in as Davidson continues to create a unique natural recreation area east of town.

Since late March, Cornelius resident Jim Mead has led a project to make the park’s hiking trails safer for hikers and bikers. He and other volunteers have been doing “bench cutting,” strenuous work that uses tools to level existing trails, reduce inclines and clear obstructions like rocks and roots. The goal, Mr. Mead said, is to allow easier and safer access to the park’s heavily forested areas.

“I wanted the public to be able to enjoy the solitude and scenery of the relatively inaccessible forested portions of the park,” he said. Read the rest of this post »

Polls closed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in North Carolina for the 2008 Primary Election.  It took national media outlets about one minute to call the state for Barack Obama in the hotly-contested race to pick a Democrat to run for president in November’s General Election. 

Davidson paralleled the state and county results: Democrats voting in the town’s two precincts preferred Obama over his top rival, Hillary Clinton, by more than 2-1.  And, surprise surprise, Republicans in Davidson voted overwhelmingly for the presumptive party candidate, John McCain.

See below for Davidson results from all races, plus information on how the three Davidson College alums fared, turnout numbers and early voting results.

“We were busy all day,” reported Lynn Burris, the head judge for Precinct 206, which votes at Davidson Town Hall. “We had a little bit of a slack after 1 p.m. and then The Pines bus came in.”

Photo: The lunchtime lines were long at Davidson Town Hall.  Voters cast their ballots in numerous Primary races.

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Did you happen to notice all the kids in blue t-shirts running the Day Care Dash at Town Day?  They were Davidson Elementary students who have earned membership in the school’s marathon club by running lots and lots of laps at recess.  Learn more about their achievements, find out how much money Davidson IB raised during their recent Darfur awareness walk, and get the scoop on Fay VanHecke’s national writing award.  Plus, consider helping proctor an exam at Bailey Middle.  And don’t forget our school calendar, which has listings for the Cannon School arts jam, the 5K race organized by Woodlawn students and more.

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Dr. William D. “Bill” Wubben, a resident of The Pines at Davidson since 1988, died Friday, May 2, 2008.  He taught economics at Davidson College from 1960 to 1963 before joining the faculty at UNC Charlotte in 1964.  He chaired the UNCC Department of Economics from 1971 to 1976 and retired in 1988.  A memorial service for Dr. Wubben will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Advent Lutheran Church in Charlotte. Read a full obituary in The Charlotte Observer.

This week in Davidson: Don’t forget to vote in the Tuesday election primary. Events at the college are slowing down for exams, while elementary students will hold their final Walking Wednesday of the school year. And this weekend, the Farmer’s Market is back Saturday, along with a Sunday Concert on the Green, featuring the Band of Oz. Read the rest of this post »