Students at Davidson College marked the Hindu “Festival of Color,” also known as Holi, on Saturday afternoon. The holiday heralds the arrival of spring and Davidson students celebrated with gusto by splashing each other with colored water. Several dozen people joined in the fun, many arriving dressed in white and none leaving [...]
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A team of Woodlawn School fifth graders placed first in North Carolina and 22nd among 300 teams nationally in the Knowledge Master Open student quiz competition March 21.
Davidson Elementary School was close behind, finishing No. 2 in North Carolina and No. 24 nationwide in the computer-based trivia competition. Woodlawn scored 720 points, Davidson 717.
Woodlawn School’s [...]
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A speaker from Down Under will be talking about global warming up, towns folk will be rummaging through each other’s stuff, college kids will be donning black ties and dancing shoes, a national advocate for Muslim Americans will be speaking about women, marchers for peace will mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, [...]
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(March 22, 2007) The days of an all-volunteer fire department in Davidson have ended. The Davidson Fire Department recently added paid “standby” firefighters on weekdays to supplement volunteers.
The change comes as the town copes with an increase in fire and emergency medical services calls amid rapid growth and the difficulty of finding volunteers available at [...]
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Davidson College made national headlines this morning with an announcement that it is eliminating loans from student financial aid packages this fall. The move makes Davidson one of only a handful of institutions nationwide with such a policy. See “LINKS” at the end of the Davidson press release for stories by national news media.
Davidson [...]
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Wednesday is the first day of spring, signaling growth to come. Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but the town has scheduled a public planning workshop on the spring equinox to go over the proposed plans for the Davidson East development, on N.C. 73.
Also this week, a forum on CMS school decentralization tonight (Monday) journalist Ron [...]
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Work has begun on the new Exit 32 off I-77, at Langtree Road north of Davidson. The Charlotte Observer covered the news in a short article Sunday. See March 18, 2007, Charlotte Observer, “Big changes begin at future Exit 32.”
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The Town of Davidson added the luck ’o the Irish to the official opening of the new Southeast Greenway Saturday morning.
Residents, many decked out in green for St. Patrick’s Day, gathered for a ribbon cutting ceremony and a chance to walk and bike part of the paved trail. The event was even graced with a [...]
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Jimmy Poole is retiring – again. Mr. Poole this week finished up a term as interim principal at Davidson International Baccalaureate Middle School, on South Street.
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A group of 21 Davidson residents (above) “graduated” last week with degrees in a subject they’ve been studying all year – town government.
The town’s first Civics 101 class wound up with a ceremony at the Town Board meeting Tuesday, March 13, where the participants (listed below) got certificates and Town of Davidson T-shirts.
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