Charlotte runners Stephen Spada and Lisa Mulvey were the top man and woman in Saturday’s Run for Green half-marathon through the streets and greenways of Davidson. That race, along with a 10K and 5K, were part of the Davidson Lands Conservancy’s Green Day Festival on the Village Green. Read on for results and photos. Read the full story

Updated Sept. 18, 10:04 a.m.
Local educator Carolyn Walker is teaming up with the Davidson Lands Conservancy to offer a new nature discovery program for families called World of Wonder, or WOW. The program begins Oct. 2 and will include sessions at Davidson Farmer’s Market as well as nature outings.

Ms. Walker and DLC members will be at Davidson Green Day on the Village Green Saturday, Sept. 18, from 9 a.m. to talk about the new program.
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Davidson’s Town Board on Tuesday endorsed a proposal for high-occupancy toll lanes on I-77, which could help ease congestion and provide money to widen the highway between north Charlotte and Cornelius. The board also approved historic landmark status for a modernist house on Lorimer Road and a Jim Crow-era store on the West Side. And the meeting saw a rare 3-2 split vote on final item of the night – a Davidson Lands Conservancy request to allow a “beer garden” on the Village Green after this Saturday’s Run for Green road races.

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J'Nell Bryson's design for a new patio in front of the Davidson branch library.

More than 300 people so far have bought engraved bricks in a fund-raiser to keep the Davidson public library branch open for another year. So what will happen to all those pavers? The Davidson Library Task Force on Monday got its first look at drawings for a renovated patio area in front of the branch that will feature the bricks.

Fund-raising hits $100,000 mark, but $75,000 still needed by Sept. 30. Details below.

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Thanks to a big turnout of volunteers in Davidson and Matthews, the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library has added Mondays back into the schedule at the two towns’ branches. New hours for Matthews and Davidson branch libraries starting Monday, Sept. 13, are:

Mondays – 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesdays – 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Wednesdays – 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Thursdays – CLOSED
Fridays – 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturdays – 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sundays – CLOSED

Also, the library this weekend resumed Sunday operations at the Main Library and ImaginOn. Both are open Sundays from 1-6 p.m. For information about all Charlotte Mecklenburg Library hours visit www.cmlibrary.org.

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Sept. 9, 2010, “Library plans 15th birthday event; fund drive halfway”

Want a piece of Tom Cotter? The Davidson resident and sports marketer is selling parts of himself as he raises money for a charity called Team for Kids and prepares to run in the New York Marathon this November. Also, the Community Arts Project of Cornelius has begun ticket sales for its annual Taste of Art fund-raiser Oct. 5 at Fresh Market. Meanwhile, a pair of charity golf tournaments is coming up next week at Birkdale Golf Club: the annual Rotary Club of North Mecklenburg Charity Golf Tournament is Monday. And the Angels of ’97 will host the Seventh Annual “Puttin’ for A Purpose” Golf Tournament on Friday. Those events and more in our fund-raising calendar, in The Guide.

Davidson’s Library Task Force is organizing an all-day 15th anniversary celebration Sept. 29 at the branch on the Village Green with music, kids’ programs and an evening reception. The event is part of an 8-week campaign to raise $175,000 to keep the branch open this year amid county funding cuts. Meanwhile, with a little more than three weeks left, the campaign has passed the halfway mark, with $90,000 raised.

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The John M. Belk Education Endowment has given Davidson College $7 million to help support the Belk Scholarship Program, which the college says its its most prestigious scholarship program.

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