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After a reception Friday night with friends and family, The Spirited Cyclist opened its downtown Davidson shop on Saturday morning. The new shop is at 129 N. Main St., next to Cats on Main.

The shop is the third for Spirited Cyclist owners Ty Burns and Cathy Green Burns, of the River Run neighborhood, joining shops in Huntersville and Mooresville. Mr. Burns says the shop will aim for a wide market, selling everything from $100 children’s bikes to $12,000 Pinarello road bikes that you might see in the Tour de France. Read the full story

Davidson resident Jan Blodgett’s Sweet Potato Crème Cake was the crowd favorite Saturday in a bake-off at the Davidson Farmer’s Market that featured recipes inspired by “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett. The event was organized by ReadDavidson, which chose “The Help as this year’s townwide read. Read the full story

Davidson Elementary School teacher Lindsay Hannum gave her first graders a choice of greeting as they entered her classroom on the first day of school Thursday: a hug, high five or a handshake. A trio of girls picked a group hug, and the 2011-12 school year was off and running.

Kindergarten classrooms had just a few students, as the start for newcomers was staggered, as usual. In Teri Brooks K/1 class, only the Read the full story

The competition was fierce again this year Davidson College’s 72nd annual Freshman Cake Race, and not only among the runners. As always, there’s another side to the competition: Whose cake gets top honors.

Several hundred members of the Class of 2015 sprinted away from the starting line in front of Baker Sports Complex just after 5 p.m. They ran in two waves – first the men, then the women.

Sal DelGiudice, of Cleveland, led the men, running just over 6 1/2 minutes for the 1.3-mile loop around campus, along North Main Street and back to Baker. Erin Osment, of Atlanta, topped the women. Read the full story

Hundreds of athletes from around the country will be in town this weekend for the annual Lake Norman YMCA Triathlon. The Saturday morning event will include a swim in Lake Cornelius, and biking and running on routes through the Davidson and Cornelius area.

The triathlon is the Lake Norman YMCA’s biggest annual fund-raiser, benefiting the Community Support Campaign.
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By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

The Villages of South Main, an on-again, off-again condo project near downtown Davidson, has passed to new owners yet again, and the first completed block of a dozen townhomes will be back on the market soon.

Davidson Village Investments LLC, a group of local investors, acquired the planned 39-unit project off South Main Street this week in a complicated foreclosure-related deal. The investment group is led by River Run resident Brad Bowman, of First Federal Properties Inc. in Cornelius. Read the full story

Town signs along the roadways into Davidson and in front of Davidson Town Hall are empty this week. No, it doesn’t mean the town has finally gone belly up.

Town officials said the signs are being refinished, in part to include the new town logo adopted earlier this year.

Downtown Manager Kim Fleming told local business owners two weeks ago that the town is getting ready to roll out a variety of new marketing materials, including parking and town “wayfinding” signs.