Davidson’s Precinct 206 Democrats will hold an organizing meeting Wednesday at Town Hall. Also, candidates for the Mecklenburg County at-large seats and other local races will be in Davidson Thursday, Oct. 14, for a candidate forum organized by the St. Alban’s neighborhood association, Lake Norman Chamber, and DavidsonNews.net. And North Mecklenburg Republican Women are hosting a Pig Pickin’ and Politickin’ GOP Rally and BBQ on Oct. 12 at Northstone Club in Huntersville. Read the full story

From WFAE-FM: WA Rowan County man is due in court Tuesday on charges that he plowed his SUV into a group of bicyclists on a Cabarrus County road last Wednesday, May 19, then left the scene. Nobody was killed, but four were hurt. Word about the case has spread quickly through the local cycling community. Reporter Julie Rose of public radio station WFAE-FM produced a report in the case. Read or listen on WFAE.org. Read the full story

Public radio station WFAE-FM, 90.7, in Charlotte aired a report Wednesday morning that takes a look back and forward at the purchase of the local cable TV system by the towns of Davidson and Mooresville. Read the full story

Davidson College community members engaged in a "Moment of Loudness" for tolerance Monday. (David Boraks photo)

Dozens of Davidson College students, faculty, staff and local residents gathered around a flagpole outside the college’s Chambers building Monday for what was billed as a “Moment of Loudness.” People came to show their support for the college’s gay and lesbian community and the campus policy of tolerance.

The rally came in response to a Nov. 4 article in Davidson’s student newspaper, The Davidsonian, by a senior student who argued that homosexuality is against the Christian tradition. In a commentary filled with citations from the Bible, he also criticized the college’s statement of diversity, saying it does not “honor God.”

Listen to a brief audio report from the rally. (Click play to start. Can’t see the button or hear the report? CLICK HERE>)

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See also more photos from the event below. Read the full story

DavidsonNews.net presents a “4-minute interview” with Diana Woods, a Davidson dog trainer. Ms. Woods lives on South Street, where you may have seen her in the yard with her dogs. She talks to DavidsonNews.net’s Emma Boraks about her dogs and show us how she trains them.

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