Concord Police have arrested a 46-year-old Mount Holly man on charges of robbing the State Employees Credit Union on April 29. Meanwhile, Davidson College’s Spring Frolics last weekend resulted in a handful of citations for possession of marijuana, and five students were treated for excessive alcohol consumption. Elsewhere, vandals spray painted messages at The Swimming Hole on Lorimer Road. Read on for news about those and other incidents, plus recent traffic enforcement. Read the full story

Davidson Town Day is this Saturday, May 4, from 10am to 7pm, on the Village Green downtown. The day includes an early morning 5K race, a day of fun, food trucks, games and music, and wraps up in the evening with a Concert on the Green – one of two this weekend in Davidson. Read the full story

Updated 4:30pm
There was no disagreement in the N.C. House of Representatives  Wednesday: Mecklenburg County needs to correct its flawed 2011 property revaluation.  In a unanimous (116-0) afternoon vote, legislators approved House Bill 200, which requires the county to re-do its most recent assessments.
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A worker drives over the completed Piedmont Natural Gas pipeline Friday evening. We talked to the driver, who said workers were blowing off gas from the new pipeline. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

Updated 9:03pm
A loud roaring noise, which some residents described as sounding like a jet engine, was heard in the Lake Norman area Friday afternoon and evening, followed by the smell of gas from Cornelius to Davidson to Mount Mourne. The odor of gas prompted more than two dozen 911 calls in Davidson and Cornelius between 5 and 8:30pm, as well as calls in the south Iredell area. Read the full story

The long-planned commercial phase of the Antiquity Cornelius development in downtown Cornelius is about to get a big kick-start, with the construction of a grocery story and two other retail buildings near the neighborhood entrance on NC 115. See the full story on CorneliusNews.net.

Thieves continued to be a problem for local construction sites this week when an unknown suspect stole over $3,300 worth of copper tubing from inside of three houses in the Summers Walk neighborhood. Unknown suspects broke into a business on North Harbor Place and stole over $1,100 worth of cash and electronics, and someone used a Lakeview Avenue victim’s social security number to open numerous accounts with a power company in Connecticut.

Details on these incidents and more, along with a tally of the week’s arrests, citations, and traffic enforcement, may be found below. Read the full story

CMS drawing shows an addition for grades 6-8 at the south end of the school, where mobile classrooms currently sit.

By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

CHARLOTTE - The Charlotte Mecklenburg school board on Tuesday adopted a $293.9 million capital improvement plan, which includes four new schools, three replacement schools and multiple renovations and conversions. The plan still needs approval from the Mecklenburg County Commission, which holds the final say on financing and priorities.

CMS’s plan includes two major projects in north Mecklenburg: a $7 million addition that would convert Davidson Elementary into a K-8 school and a new $28.4 million school on the site of the aging Alexander Middle School in Huntersville. Read the full story

Alfred Ray Gibson

Davidson police have charged a Mooresville man with the April 8 robbery of the Fifth Third Bank in downtown Davidson. Alfred Ray Gibson was arrested Wednesday at the Iredell County Jail in Statesville, where he is being held on unrelated charges.

Gibson, 46, is charged with unarmed  robbery of the bank of the Fifth Third branch at 124 S. Main St. on the afternoon of April 8. The charge is a felony.

Davidson Detective Steve Ingram said police shared information and security camera photos of the robbery with nearby police departments, and that led to the arrest. Read the full story