The town has announced that Jetton Street between Potts Street and Gamble Street will be closed for at least a week starting Tuesday, April 17.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities will doing more sewer line work in the area. Detours will be marked.

Residents along the upper section of South Street, near downtown, are being asked to move automobiles parked on the street and to limit water use Thursday, April 5, while contractors replace old sewer pipes.

Representatives of from Atlantic Coast Contractors Inc., which is working under contract to Charlotte Mecklenburg Utilities, also will install new manholes and make other repairs, according to a letter delivered to residents Wednesday. Read the full story

The projected March 30 reopening date for Catawba Avenue near Fuel Pizza has come and gone and it looks like the sewer project that closed the road is still going strong. Meanwhile, other utility projects are thick on the West Side and starting along Concord Road.

Got questions about all the work? Come to a community meeting Monday night at Ada Jenkins Center and talk to representatives from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities.

Meanwhile, this week’s calendar includes a lecture about the Rwandan genocide, a meeting among area public officials to discuss the proposed purchase of the local cable TV system, and pair of art lectures, including one Thursday by artist Willie Cole. Read the full story

Charlotte Mecklenburg Utilities has announced that water service will be interrupted temporarily in neighborhoods along Concord Road on Monday, April 2, while a water line on Grey Road is replaced.

The work affects Dogwood Lane and Concord Road between Pine Road and Pat Stough Lane. The interruption is expected to last from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. In case of bad weather, makeup dates are scheduleld Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Above, residents put the new trail to the test Saturday. (Photo by Bill Giduz)

The Town of Davidson added the luck ’o the Irish to the official opening of the new Southeast Greenway Saturday morning.

Residents, many decked out in green for St. Patrick’s Day, gathered for a ribbon cutting ceremony and a chance to walk and bike part of the paved trail. The event was even graced with a small pot of gold in the form of a just-awarded grant of $3,000 from the Davidson College’s Robert Stone Fund to place 60 bluebird boxes along the 2.8-mile trail.

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Davidson’s Senior Nutrition Center behind the Ada Jenkins Center on Gamble Street has been forced to move into temporary quarters elsewhere after officials declared the structure unsafe. Read the full story

After eight years of planning and construction, the town’s first 2.8-mile section of greenway is officially open, Director of Parks & Recreation Steve Fraher said Thursday.

The town this week published a map of the Southeast Greenway, which runs from the end of South Street southeast through several neighborhoods and on to Davidson-Concord Road. (Click the map to download. Requires free Adobe Reader software.)

A formal dedication, which the town is calling “Go Green on the Greenway,” is planned on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. Read the full story

Davidson police corporal James “J.J.” Stokes (right) was honored at Tuesday’s Town Board meeting as the town’s first Employee of the Year.Officer Stokes has worked with the department for 4½ years. A Jersey City, N.J., native, he moved to the Charlotte area in 1998, and soon after began studying for a job in law enforcement, a long held dream.

After basic law enforcement training, he started as a patrol officer in Cornelius. In 2002, Davidson hired him. His duties recently have included helping to train new officers as they come on the force. Read the full story