By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

The Town of Davidson plans to install brightly colored pedestrian signs in the middle of crosswalks on Concord Road in the coming weeks and has begun studying other measures to improve safety at all pedestrian crossings in town, public works chief Doug Wright told the Town Board Tuesday.
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Updated Nov. 17, 10:24 a.m.
By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

Davidson businesses can begin using new and larger signs under planning ordinance changes Davidson’s Town Board adopted on Tuesday. Commissioners also authorized the town to rent the two vacant homes it owns, at Fisher Farm and off Beaty Street, and approved 2012 fees for everything from parks & recreation to planning to cemetery plots.

At meeting’s end, the board went into a closed session with its lawyer to discuss a legal matter – the recent lawsuit filed by CommunityOne Bank against the town seeking to overturn the September re-zoning of the former Davidson East site off N.C. 73 east of town. Read the full story

Davidson’s annual Interfaith Community Thanksgiving Service is planned Sunday, Nov. 20, at 5 p.m. at Gethsemane Baptist Church, 565 Jetton St. The annual gathering brings together people from a variety of local congregations and honors our town’s police, firefighters and other public servants. Read the full story

After almost 2 months in jail, the primary suspect in a series of arson fires in Cornelius over the past year was freed Monday after the Mecklenburg District Attorney dropped the charges against him. Robert Joseph Prevatte, 31, was arrested Sept. 16 as police investigated a series of arson fires in the Glenridge neighborhood. Police say he may be moving to Davidson. Read more on CorneliusNews.net.

Updated Monday, 10:15 p.m.
Electricities crews Monday night were able to restore power to nearly all of the approximately 2,700 customers who had been without power for close to 20 hours following an explosion at an electrical substation off Zion Avenue early Monday morning. Read the full story on CorneliusNews.net.

Updated 8:02 a.m.
Power went out in parts of Davidson and Cornelius for hours early Monday, after a transformer blew up at an electrical substation off Zion Avenue in downtown Cornelius. Power wasn’t expected to be restored in parts of Cornelius until 2 p.m., and school was canceled for the day at J.V. Washam and Cornelius elementary schools, and W.A. Hough High School. Lake Norman YMCA also was closed. Cornelius Town Hall remained open, but without power or telephone services.

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Friends from a local CrossFit training center are organizing a fitness-related fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 19, for Erin Cobb, the 28-year-old Davidson woman who is recovering after she was shot by her ex-husband on Sept 24 at her east Davidson home. Read the full story

South Street will be closed at South Main Street Friday night for the running of the Summit Coffee Twilight 5K, a race on town streets and greenways. The road will close around 5 p.m., and the race is expected to begin at 6 p.m. Read the full story