By JONATHAN COX
DavidsonNews.net

Handwritten scoreboards, long a traditional part of golf tournaments, have become a rare sight on the professional tours as electronic scoreboards take their place.  This week’s Chiquita Classic at River Run Country Club  is one of few that still feature a handwritten board.

Calligrapher Rick Wild is the Web.com Tour scorekeeper responsible for filling out the handwritten scoreboard at River Run. He says digital scoreboards can’t match the artistry of the handwritten board, or its ability to present information at a glance. Read the full story

By JONATHAN COX
DavidsonNews.net

Our Towns Habitat for Humanity has purchased an abandoned house at 510 Cardinal Court and intends to renovate it as part of its Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative.

The house stood abandoned since former resident Ronnie White moved out roughly a year and a half ago, leading to complaints from neighbors. Habitat expects volunteers to begin work soon on cleaning and refurbishing the house to prepare it for a new resident. Read the full story

HUNTERSVILLE – Huntersville police have charged a 22-year-old Huntersville driver with felony death by motor vehicle following a rollover crash early Saturday on McCoy road that killed his passenger.

Evan Purtill, 22, of Huntersville, was charged Thursday after police completed their investigation into the 2am Saturday wreck on McCoy Road, between Hambright and Beatties Ford roads. Huntersville firefighters, police and MEDIC 911 were called to the scene just after 2am, where they found a vehicle on its side after rolling over. Read the full story

NC Department of Transportation
CONCORD – The N.C. Department of Transportation is preparing to convert Poplar Tent Road over I-85 in Concord to a diverging diamond interchange (DDI), one of two on the $125.2 million I-85 widening project and one of four currently under construction in the Charlotte region. Read the full story

By JONATHAN COX
DavidsonNews.net/CorneliusNews.net

CHARLOTTE – Citizens crowded the meeting chamber at Charlotte Mecklenburg Government Center Tuesday for a public hearing on proposals to ban smoking on government property and outlaw tobacco in public parks. While the majority of speakers supported the ordinance, some considered it unduly restrictive.

Tuesday’s meeting was the second public forum on the smoking ban in preparation county commissioners’ vote on the new rules later this month. Read the full story

The lifelong learning program DavidsonLearns is continuing to grow, with plans to offer the largest selection of courses in its history this fall. Registration is open for courses that begin Sept. 15, including writing, poetry, the Arab Spring, the Russian writer Dostoevsky, and environmental studies. Meanwhile, the program also plans a joint film screening with Davidson Film Club Sept. 13 of “If a Tree Falls”, including a discussion with filmmaker Marshall Curry. Read the full story

By JONATHAN COX
DavidsonNews.net

Davidson College students found one-stop shopping for making connections and exploring service opportunities Tuesday as 46 community organizations, schools and nonprofits set up tables at the 2014 Community Involvement Fair in the Alvarez College Union.

Many students’ social lives and activities are limited to the college campus – a phenomenon students call the “Davidson bubble.”  The Community Involvement Fair aims to help students break out of the bubble and engage with the town through volunteer opportunities and internships. Read the full story

More than 100 students and staff at Davidson College gathered outside of Chambers Building Tuesday morning for a moment of silence in memory of Michael Brown, the 18-year old unarmed African American man shot by a police officer in Ferguson, MO, on Aug. 9. Read the full story