LAKE NORMAN – Some of the world’s top professional wakeboarders will be on Lake Norman this weekend, competing in the second of eight stops on the MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour. The event comes as the sport is in the midst of a growth spurt, according to Josh Palma, a 28-year-old pro. Read more in SPORTS»

UPDATE: We’ve got the results from Saturday’s finals, as well as photos from the semifinals taken by reader Rick Short. See “Australian Clifford wins wakeboard competition”

P51 fighter. (Robert Taylor photo)

The skies over the Davidson and Cornelius were full of old flying machines in recent days, as a traveling show called the CAF Airpower History Tour stopped at Concord Regional Airport. Robert Taylor shares a couple of shots.  Read more about the planes at the tour website.

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The horizon blazed orange and pink in this view from Davidson Landing Friday night, the start of the Memorial Day weekend.(David Boraks photo)

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A group of Lake Norman Christian upper school students worked on landscaping at Davidson Cornelius Child Development Center. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

An orange-shirted army of students from Lake Norman Christian School fanned out across Davidson on Wednesday in the private school’s first “Feet on the Street” service day. Read the full story

Davidson Lands Conservancy officials and members of the Runnymede Homeowners Association board gathered in the Runnymede Woods east of Davidson on May 6 to sign an agreement that permanently protects more than 50 acres of woodlands. See more in REAL ESTATE & HOME»

Business and nonprofit leaders were among the guests. (Duke Energy photo)

The weather was perfect Thursday afternoon for the 23rd annual Business After Hours networking reception at the EnergyExplorium, at Duke Energy’s McGuire Nuclear Station on Lake Norman. The event brought businesspeople from Mecklenburg, Iredell and Lincoln counties.

Guests sampled burgers, chips and dips, sandwiches, chicken wings, desserts and other food from 17 area restaurants and caterers. DJ Echo provided the music and some guests actually got out on the water for boat tours around by Luxury Yacht. Read the full story

Thursday was the annual butterfly release a Davidson College Presbyterian Church Weekday Preschool. Organizers managed to come up with a record 100 butterflies to release, as kids sang songs and wore butterfly hats and masks. DavidsonNews.net’s Gayle Shomer was there to record the scene. Here’s her gallery:

More than 700 runners joined in for the Run Wild 5K and Wild Child Fun Run in Huntersville’s Birkdale neighborhood Saturday, raising $30,000 for the African Children’s Project. Davidson-based Olympian Anthony Famiglietti won the race in one of the fastest 5K times in the area in recent memory. Claire Naisby of Davidson won the women’s division. See results and photos in our latest Running column, in SPORTS»