More than 200 people spread out on the Village Green Saturday for the third annual Yoga on the Green, hosted by The Bindu yoga studio and this sponsored by Carolinas HealthCare System. Read more and see a photo gallery in HEALTH & FITNESS»

Officer Amanda Lawing works her beat in the cafeteria at Hough High. (Jonathan Cox/CorneliusNews.net)

By JONATHAN COX
CorneliusNews.net

Cornelius police officer Amanda Lawing’s beat is the halls and classrooms of W.A. Hough High, where she has worked as a School Resource Officer for the past year. Her duties include providing security and – if necessary – enforcing the law, but she says that she also tries to be a role model for the students she serves and protects. Read the full story

About 40 people, many of them opponents of the NCDOT’s I-77 widening plan, came to the Lake Norman Chamber meeting Friday. (David Boraks/CorneliusNews.net)

NCDOT’s Warren Cooksey addressed the chamber’s Focus Friday meeting. (David Boraks/CorneliusNews.net)

CORNELIUS – Warren Cooksey is a veteran politician and no stranger to a debate. It wasn’t on the agenda, but he got one Friday as he addressed the Lake Norman Chamber’s Focus Friday issues session on “Making the Business Case for Managed Lanes.”

The former Charlotte City Council member is now the NCDOT’s director of outreach and community affairs. That makes him the point man on the department’s plans to widen I-77 north of Charlotte using high occupancy toll lanes (HOT lanes), also known as managed lanes. Read the full story

Davidson’s Town Board will meet Tuesday, Sept. 23, for its monthly work session, where commissioners will hear presentations about the Davidson Farmer’s Market, from a consultant studying the fiscal impact of new development, and about the Davidson Design for Life program. Commissioners also will give reports on their work on outside committees and agencies, and go into a closed session for a personnel matter. Two planning issues also are on the agenda: the Parks & Recreation Master Plan and a followup discussion from the board’s planning retreat this month. Read the full story

Center Director Libby Johnston with children from the center(Jonathan Cox/DavidsonNews.net)

The Davidson Cornelius Child Development Center celebrated the opening of a new classroom for toddlers 18-24 months old on Friday morning. The new room, named after benefactor Edwin Donaldson, brings the capacity of the center up to 69 children. Read the full story

About 171,000 customers with Time Warner Cable phone lines were unable to receive inbound calls, make outbound calls, or dial 911 Thursday morning between 10:13am  and 10:39am, due to an outage that spanned parts of the Carolinas and Midwest. Read the full story

Davidson College and eight other colleges and universities have joined a nationwide nonprofit called Say Yes to Education in a campaign to make a college education more accessible and affordable for lower income students. Read the full story

Huntersville Baptist Church has scheduled a yard sale for Sept. 27 to benefit organizations fighting world hunger. Temple Kol Tikvah in Davidson has released a schedule of its high holiday celebrations this fall. Meanwhile Mt. Zion United Methodist Church schedules classes for infants, and Davidson College Presbyterian Church plans the blessing of the animals ceremony. Read on for details. Read the full story