By LINCOLN DAVIDSON
DavidsonNews.net

The Davidson College Student Government Association is calling on the college to reduce the cost of its meal plan, which all students will be required to purchase next year.  The SGA also wants to preserve the ability of  fraternities and eating houses to serve meals at their Patterson Court houses as long as they purchase food supplies through the college. Read the full story

A trio of old ones at Tom Cotter’s 2014 Woody Party. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

Every autumn, Davidson resident and automotive writer Tom Cotter hosts a giant car party on his front lawn and in his Westmoreland Farms neighborhood, off Davidson-Concord Road. This year’s 16th Woody Party seemed to be bigger than ever, with everything from century-old antiques to race cars to restorations. Read the full story

By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

The Town of Davidson is suing the developer of Mooney’s Corner on South Main Street next to Town Hall, saying it’s owed nearly $70,000 that the developer agreed to pay instead of providing parking for the building. Town officials say they want the money to add new parking spaces along Jackson Street to help ease a parking crunch downtown.

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Detective Rick Rojas of the Huntersville Police Department talked about avoiding credit card fraud (Jonathan Cox/CorneliusNews.net)

By JONATHAN COX
CorneliusNews.net

The holiday season is not just a bonanza for big retailers, but also for criminals. While some thieves use hacking, viruses, or phishing scams to steal their victims’ credit card information, others rely on less high-tech theft, taking advantage of unlocked car doors or unprotected valuables.

Those warnings came from Cornelius, Davidson, and Huntersville police officers who joined Babette Stewart of Legal Shield at the Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce Friday for a discussion of how shoppers can protect themselves this holiday season. Read the full story

MOORESVILLE – A report of a suspicious automobile in the Morrison Plantation area of Mooresville has set off another wave of email and social media alerts about child predators and supposed abduction attempts in the Lake Norman area. Mooresville police said they don’t think any crime was committed, but they put out their own alert this week with some old-fashioned advice: Teach your kids how to respond to strangers. Read the full story

Beatties Ford Bridge, which carried the pre-Lake Norman Highway 73 across the Catawba River, was demolished during the construction of the Lake (courtesy of Davidson College Archives)

Source: Davidson College Communications

The flow of life along the Catawba River changed dramatically about 50 years ago when Duke Energy created Lake Norman with the construction of Cowan’s Ford Dam in 1963.

The Charlotte Teachers Institute (CTI) will plumb the depths of Lake Norman – past, present and future – in a program titled “Exploding Canons: Under The Lake” on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 5:30-8pm, at Davidson College’s Lilly Family Gallery.   Read the full story

Ethan Uslan (click the image to visit his website)

By JANE SHOEMAKER
DavidsonNews.net

Ethan Uslan is a classically trained pianist with a degree in Piano Performance from the prestigious Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

So what is he doing wearing spats and pounding out Maple Leaf Rag? Read the full story

It was a beautiful night for a walk at Davidson Landing Thursday. (Rhonda Boggs photo)

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