Davidson College sophomore Elizabeth Welliver helped teach Sandra Houston of Cornelius how to use her new computer Friday.

How do you end the digital divide, that gap between those connected to the digital world and those on the backroads? The first step is to get computers into the hands of those who need them. The essential next step is to support these news users with advice and training. That’s what Davidson College students are doing this weekend in Davidson and Cornelius, through a new initiative called E2D, Eliminate the Digital Divide.

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The bus lay on its side after the crash. One person was critically injured. (Mooresville Police Department photo)

Updated Saturday, 4:01pm
MOORESVILLE – A tour bus carrying 45 soldiers from the U.S. Army Reserve overturned and slid down a small hill on NC Highway 150 in Mooresville Friday afternoon. The bus driver is facing charges after the wreck, which left many of the passengers injured, including one female soldier who was taken by helicopter to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. Read the full story

Heath Morrison

Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools superintendent Heath Morrison will be at Davidson College Presbyterian Church Sunday to help kick off a new year of educational ministry, and to explore how churches and schools can collaborate. Meanwhile, Gethsemane Baptist Church in Davidson will host a back to school event Saturday, and Christ the King Catholic High School will host a ribbon cutting at its new school, also Saturday. Read on for the details. Read the full story

HUNTERSVILLE – A motorcyclist was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries Thursday afternoon after a collision with a van on Gilead Road at Reese Boulevard. Read the full story

The Lake Norman YMCA will host the annual Lake Norman Triathlon this Saturday, Aug. 24, bringing hundreds of athletes to the area. Police are warning residents to keep an eye out for athletes and race related traffic delays between 7 and 10am in Cornelius and Davidson. Read the full story

Franny Millen, E2D Founder, hands the first computer to Aryanna McCain of Davidson. (Bill Giduz photo)

With a gift of 500 computers from Lowes Cos. Inc. this week, the Davidson-based nonprofit E3D (Eliminate Davidson’s Digital Divide) is expanding to Cornelius and broadening its goal of putting computers into the hands of local school kids who lack them. The group has been rechristened with a broader name – E2D (Eliminate the Digital Divide) – and is now hoping to help hundreds of families with children in grades K-12 at the three elementary schools in the two towns as well as Bailey Middle and W.A. Hough High schools in Cornelius.

In a ceremony Wednesday at the Ada Jenkins Center in Davidson, E2D formally announced the Lowe’s gift, and distributed the first computer. Read the full story

Construction workers moved earth on Gilead Road Monday. (Lloyd Parlee photo)

HUNTERSVILLE – Repairs on Bud Henderson Road in Huntersville finished Tuesday and the road has reopened after being closed in July because of a storm-induced sinkhole. But Gilead Road is another story: The major east-west thoroughfare through town may not be reopened until August 30, according to the N.C. Department of Transportation. Read the full story

U.S. Robert Pittenger (R-9th District) will hold two town hall meetings next week in the district, which stretches from south Mecklenburg to Iredell County. The meetings will be Monday, Aug. 26, in Mooresville and Wednesday, Aug. 28, in Cornelius. The meetings are open to the public. Read the full story