Updated 10:07 a.m.Davidson Police are seeking information about a red truck parked in the driveway of one of several homes hit in during series of daytime burglaries Monday in the McConnell and Hudson Place neighborhoods. Nearly $20,000 in electronics and jewelry was taken. Meanwhile, police also are investigating the theft of $6,000 in cable networking equipment from a Time Warner Cable outdoor box on Summers Walk Boulevard early Saturday. Those incidents and others below, plus the week’s traffic enforcement log.
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Police check lead in Mon. burglaries; cable equipment stolen
Posted on 07 October 2010.
Posted in Cable TV, Downtown & old Davidson, East Davidson, Exit 30 area, McConnell, Police Blotter, South Main Street, Summer's WalkComments Off
New neighbors: American Textile opens Exit 30 office
Posted on 06 October 2010.
American Textile executives at Tuesday's reception (from left): Blake Ruttenberg, executive vice preident of sales/marketing; David Templeton, national account manager; Jane Fischer, vice president of product development; Shannon Hughes, senior technology design director; Mette Odom, vice president of marketing; Damian DeCarlo, national account manager; Noreen O'Reilly, director of product development; Lance Ruttenberg, chief operating officer; Jack Oulette, president/CEO. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)
American Textile Co. formally opened its new regional office off I-77 Exit 30 in Davidson Wednesday with a reception that included executives, local businesspeople and the mayor. Last spring, the privately-held company, based in Pittsburgh, picked a third-floor space at Childress Klein Properties’ 130 Harbour Place for a regional office to house the heart of the company’s product development team, as well as sales and marketing personnel.
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15-year-old assaulted; car break-ins in River Run
Posted on 01 October 2010.
A rash of automobile break-ins was reported this week in the River Run neighborhood, including one in which a thief or thieves got away with a Beretta handgun. The rash of thefts
prompted authorities to warn residents about locking their vehicles, and the River Run Property Owners Association is looking into what steps it might take to alleviate the problem. Another police report last week details a case in which a man – reportedly an acquaintance – broke into a Beaty Street residence and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl. Those incidents, plus the week’s traffic enforcement tally, are below.
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Town offers businesses grants for advertising
Posted on 01 October 2010.
Davidson's new "popular" logo.
Local business owners are being invited to apply for grants of up to $300 each per quarter this year to help pay for advertising, in exchange for promoting Davidson using advertising templates that incorporate a new town logo. The town has a total of $5,000 this fiscal year to pay for the matching-grant program.
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Laney Edwards moving on from Davidson Elementary
Posted on 29 September 2010.
Laney Edwards, the assistant principal at Davidson Elementary School, is moving to another school after eight years in Davidson. Meanwhile, CMS officials said Tuesday they will shift to “performance-based” pay beginning this year. Hough High held its first-ever homecoming last week – without a queen. Davidson Day hosts a world-renowned anthropologist for an evening talk next week. And Davidson Elementary’s Tigers on the Prowl running program begins its 8th year.
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Market won’t be your run-of-the-mill gas station
Posted on 29 September 2010.
Rushco market gasoline price sign.
Rushco Davidson Market under construction at I-77 Exit 30 may be unlike any highway-exit gas station you’ve ever seen. That observation by Commissioner Margo Williams came during a presentation at the Davidson Town Board’s monthly work session Tuesday night.
For one thing, the planned gas station and shop is two stories, with a downstairs food market and upstairs office space, officials said. And signage on the building Read the full story
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Job numbers hint at commercial growth in Davidson
Posted on 29 September 2010.
Town officials estimate that Davidson added 129 new full- and part-time jobs between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010, in part as new businesses moved in to fill vacant buildings or newly constructed space downtown and at I-77 Exit 30. Meanwhile, occupied commercial space in town grew by a whopping 33 percent over the same period.
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Board to take up Rushco signs, econ. development
Posted on 28 September 2010.
Davidson’s Town Board holds its monthly work session tonight, where commissioners are expected to review on a conditional rezoning request for signage at Rushco Davidson Market, off I-77 Exit 30. The board also will hear a presentation from economic development manager Kris Krider and Downtown Director Sandy Lemons on a proposed downtown/economic development work plan.
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