More than 110 golfers teed off Monday in the Lions Club annual Russell B. Knox Golf Tournament at NorthStone Country Club in Huntersville. Read more, on SPORTS>>

Congratulations to the following Davidson Day School middle and upper school students who earned academic honors for second trimester. Read the full story

Phi Hall at Davidson College, off North Main Street, hides in the fog. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net file photo)

Leland Park, the former Davidson College library director, will give a lecture Sunday on the history of the college’s Phi and Eu  halls, two of the oldest buildings on campus which are on the National Register of Historic Places.

The talk will be at 4 p.m. at Phi Hall, 216 N. Main St. It’s sponsored by the Davidson Historical Society. Read the full story

Panelists (fom left) Sharon Green, John Concelman, and Lucretia Waston-Collins listen to comments from an audience member

CONCORD – The Cornelius-based anti-bullying group Foundation for Respect Ability hosted a private preview Thursday night of the movie “Bully” that was followed by a panel discussion. The event drew applause and tears, but was not a sob story, it was a call to action. With discussions about bullying growing in the right now, Christina Ritchie Rogers of CorneliusNews.net went to the screening, and also checked in on a session Friday at Bailey Middle School. Read more on CorneliusNews.net»

Jocelyn Albright Desmond

The recent death of Davidson resident and W.A. Hough High School student Jocelyn Albright Desmond has given many of us cause to reflect – about teenage life, cyber bullying and suicide. Her loss is still a painful wound for both family and friends. Today her parents, Alan and Jaletta Desmond, are sharing their thoughts and feelings in a pair of letters published below.

Jocelyn, 17, died March 15. She was a Hough High junior, active in her church and at school, where she loved track and singing. But there were things the Desmonds did not know about their daughter until after her death. They reflected on both her life and death in letters read by friends at a March 17 funeral service, within a few days of her passing. Read the full story

Updated Friday, 12:43 p.m.
Cornelius police on Thursday charged two Charlotte men with murder in the Wednesday night shooting death of a Davidson man at a house near the Food Lion in Cornelius. Bernard Fuller and Jay Wallace also face several other charges in the death of Wilfred Arnold of Davidson. Read the full story on CorneliusNews.net.

A new high school competition that aims to promote a better understanding of sustainability is scheduled in Davidson this weekend as part of the 2012 North Carolina Science Festival. Teams from area schools will square off in the first Green Idea Factory Competition on Saturday, at The Business Center, in South Main Square. Read the full story

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Here’s an introduction to an activity some folks in Davidson are getting hooked on: parkour. What is parkour? A sport, an art form?

Stephan Snyder of Davidson, a sophomore in the I.B. program at North Mecklenburg High School, says: “It’s the practice of moving efficiently from point A to point B using vaulting, climbing, and other techniques.” Read the full story