By LINCOLN DAVIDSON
DavidsonNews.net

Starting in the fall of 2015, Davidson College will require all students to purchase a dining plan at a cost of $1,688 per year, the college announced Tuesday. That figure is a compromise between students and the college administration, which announced the new requirement in August. Read the full story

By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

MI-Connection Communications System’s switch to new billing and technical support systems this summer negatively affected service for many customers, officials said last week. But the problems didn’t keep the town-owned company from adding customers and growing revenues in the fiscal 2015 first quarter that ended Sept. 30.

“We had great financial growth, great subscriber growth – the same or higher than prior years, and that’s despite all the turmoil over the past 90 days,” Chief Executive David Auger told board members at their quarterly meeting Thursday.

• Also at the meeting, auditors gave a mostly clean report to MI-Connection’s fiscal 2014 year-end financial statements. See below.

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Davidson LifeLine invites residents to to “Be4Me: A Parent Guide to the Teen World of Social Media” on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 7-8:30 pm, at the Davidson United Methodist Chapel. Read the full story

Updated 7:24pm
As the polls prepared to close at Davidson Town Hall Tuesday night around 7:30, a line snaked through the atrium and out the front door. Poll workers estimated voters would have to wait for up to an hour after the polls closed to cast their ballots in races from US Senate at the top of the ballot to county commission and statehouse seats.

Election workers said everyone in line at 7:30 would be able to vote.

Voting began showing up at 6:30am, when a crowd of campaign workers greeted them at Davidson Town Hall.

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The Town of Davidson will mark Veterans Day with a program on the Village Green Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 11am,  to commemorate Veterans Day.  The program features keynote speaker Dr. Sam Maloney, W.A. Hough High School’s Wind Ensemble and Junior ROTC cadets, and other community members.  Read the full story

Davidson commissioners hold their first-Tuesday work session on Tuesday, Nov. 4, with an agenda that includes a closed session to discuss a legal matter, an update on contracts for paving town streets, and a discussion with the town manager about which towns Davidson should compare itself to when budgeting and making policy.

The meeting begins at 4pm in the administrative conference room at Town Hall, 216 S. Main St. Read the full story

A hundred years ago, two of the town’s most prominent citizens were at the center of a murder case that made headlines across the Southeast. Many of the events took place at buildings still standing in town. The victim and the shooter are buried yards from one another in the Davidson College Cemetery. It’s a fascinating tale, worth retelling during the centennial year of the tragedy.

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In February 1914, citizens throughout Mecklenburg County were shocked at news of a murder on South Street in Davidson. Monroe Jetton, the town druggist, was accused of shooting his friend and business partner, Dr. W.H. Wooten, “in a fit of jealousy” over the doctor’s alleged relationship with Mr. Jetton’s wife. The “distressing affair” – as one news account called it – was front-page news in the Charlotte newspapers and the subject of whispering in town for decades.

I first heard this story at the closing for my house, at 231 South St., in 2002. My wife and I bought the 2,300-square-foot home from the late Dorothy Beam, who leaned in amid the signing of documents and said, “You know there was a murder.”

That set me on trail of research, using newspapers, documents and interviews, to find out more about the case.
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By JONATHAN COX
DavidsonNews.net/CorneliusNews.net

[UPDATE: CLT International has announced that the hourly parking deck is now scheduled to open in late November. See details on the airport’s Facebook page]

Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) is in the midst of a $1.5 billion expansion, as it renovates and expands its terminal, parking, and runway system.  Some of the improvements are close to opening, including a new short-term parking deck and car rental facility.

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