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Oh rats, another lunar year’s gone by! A celebration welcoming the Year of the Rat at the college will feature a lion dance and more Saturday evening. Davidson United Methodist Church offers soul-strengthening sessions on its labyrinth Thursday to Sunday. Also this weekend there’s live music at Summit, a scout food drive, a history [...]

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After months of construction, The Pines is getting back to normal. New residents are moving into The Villas at Laurel Ridge, upscale apartments at the back of the property. New, nicely appointed rooms with health care and assisted living services are ready when needed. The new “Dining Room and Grill” opened just this month where [...]

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By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net
CORNELIUS - Members of the North Mecklenburg-South Iredell Transportation Task Force appeared near consensus Wednesday on a major goal: Creating some kind of permanent regional planning organization — preferably with a permanent funding source. Such a group would not only formalize and expand joint transportation and land-use planning, but also give the towns [...]

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Davidson United Methodist Church, 233 S. Main St., will have “The Labyrinth / A Path of Prayer” in the chapel today (Thursday, Jan. 31) to Sunday, Feb. 3. “It’s a walking meditation path of prayer that can become a mirror of the soul representing our inward/outward journey - much like the twists and turns of [...]

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The Ada Jenkins Center at 212 Gamble St. has teamed up with the Charlotte Checkers hockey club for a fund-raiser that will help support the center’s after-school program. It’s Sunday, Feb. 10, when the Checkers play the Pensacola Ice Pilots at 4 p.m. at Bobcats Arena in Charlotte.

For each $15 ticket, the Checkers will donate [...]

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Do you have ideas or opinions - positive or negative - about the town’s affordable housing program? Share them at a public focus group Thursday at 7 p.m. at the public library on the Village Green.
The session is one of two this week to help town officials understand public perceptions about affordable housing and to [...]

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Officials from Davidson, Huntersville and Cornelius will hold another follow-up workshop Thursday, Jan. 31, at 7 p.m. at Huntersville Town Hall on their proposed N.C. 73/ Davidson-Concord Road Area Plan. A draft of the plan will be presented. The plan can be downloaded from the town Website in advance of the meeting.

At this meeting, [...]

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Davidson IB Middle School’s Future City Team won both the state and regional titles at a competition in Raleigh Saturday.  In other school news, don’t forget that Thursday is the deadline for applying to both Davidson IB and the Children’s Community School. You’ll find the necessary links below in our calendar section, along with details on [...]

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Clay artist Melissa Reddick of Davidson (photo) will lead “Thrown and Altered Clay,” a three-week hands-on workshop beginning Saturday, Feb. 2, at Creative Art Exchange, in the Oak Street Mill, Cornelius.
Students will investigate techniques for altering wheel thrown forms, slip layering, carving and more. Works will be inspired by the forms and surfaces [...]

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This can’t be the right tool for the job. Resident Grace Farson captured this shot of a utility worker on North Thompson Street Tuesday.

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