By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

With a ribbon cutting, tours and a small feast served by local chefs, MSC Industrial Supply Co. on Tuesday showed off its new $31 million “co-headquarters” off I-77 Exit 30. The six-story building overlooking I-77 and Lake Davidson houses 150 employees right now, many who moved from the company’s original headquarters in Melville, NY.

See a related story from Tuesday, “MSC plugs in as Davidson’s newest corporate neighbor.”

The christening was a big milestone for the growing MSC, which decided to split its headquarters in part to help recruiting as it expands its work force. Founded in New York City in 1941 as Sid Tool, the company now has more than 6,000 employees. It sells $2.7 billion a year in industrial tools and supplies to customers ranging from big manufacturers to the military to NASCAR teams.
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As firefighters and other emergency workers searched for a missing boater earlier this month on Lake Norman in Cornelius, they made another unexpected discovery: A sunken plane nose-down in the depths. Now authorities including the Federal Aviation Administration are trying to figure out how long the plane has been there and how it got there. And some Cornelius residents think they know the answer. See the full story on CorneliusNews.net.

As firefighters and other emergency workers searched for a missing boater earlier this month on Lake Norman in Cornelius, they made another unexpected discovery: A sunken plane nose-down in the depths. Now authorities including the Federal Aviation Administration are trying to figure out how long the plane has been there and how it got there. But some Cornelius residents think they know the answers. See the full story and sonar images on CorneliusNews.net.

I-77 southbound in Mooresville was shut down for several hours Thursday night after a wreck involving two tractor-trailers.

The wreck happened around 6pm just north of I-77 Exit 31 at Langtree Road. The NC DOT reported that the road was open again around 9pm.

No further details were immediately available.

Updated 3:42pm
By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

The N.C. Forest Service will conduct a controlled burn sometime in the coming days or weeks on 62 acres of forest land at the Barger Farm, off Concord Road in Davidson. The Barger family said Thursday the burn is part of a forestry management plan on the land. Read the full story

The Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce has accepted 17 local high school juniors from four area high schools to participate in this year’s Junior Leadership Lake Norman Class. Sabrena H. Fernandez, Marketing Manager – Director of Business Development for Servpro of Northwest Charlotte / Lincoln North Gaston, is chairman of the program.

Accepted into the third class of junior leadership are: Read the full story

Mooresville and Iredell County have approved several hundred thousand dollars in incentives for a proposed $5 million aquatic center that would be built at Langtree at the Lake, off I-77 Exit 31. The Mooresville Tribune reports that developer RL West would own center, and lease it to SwimMac, a Charlotte-based swim training group led by U.S. Olympic coach David Marsh. Read the full story

Mecklenburg County Commission vice chair Kim Ratliff will host a community meeting Thursday night at Cornelius Town Hall, where she’ll answer residents’ questions about county issues from revaluation to social services to county employment. Read the full story