By CHRISTINA RITCHIE ROGERS
DavidsonNews.net

CORNELIUS – The North Mecklenburg Senior Center will remain open at its current location in River Church on West Catawba Avenue this summer while center officials continue seeking a new location. Officials say they’ve narrowed their search to two sites, in Huntersville and Cornelius. Read the full story

Aquesta Bank said Monday it has hired Charlette Thorne as the new assistant vice president and branch manager at the company’s Davidson branch, in the Harris Teeter shopping center. The bank also announced a new city executive in Huntersville. Read the full story

On Tuesday, Davidson firefighters responded with the Cornelius and Huntersville Fire Departments to a major structure fire in the Glenridge neighborhood in Cornelius, which Cornelius Police are calling the third case of arson in less than six months. Davidson firefighters also attempted to help the BB&T on Main Street identify a strange odor on Friday. And firefighters responded to an alarm at International Kitchen & Bath in Sadler Square that turned out to be the result of a “bug bomb.”

Details on these calls and more, along with a tally of the week’s medical calls, may be found below. Read the full story

250 athletes will compete, bringing talent and tourism dollars to the region Read the full story

Cornelius Police on Tuesday issued a telephone and email alert to residents urging them to watch for coyotes along the McDowell Creek Greenway. The alert followed an incident Monday night in which a woman encountered coyotes while walking her dog. Read the full story on CorneliusNews.net.

Investigators say arson caused a fire that destroyed an empty house on Meadow Crossing Lane in Cornelius’s Glenridge neighborhood around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. Nobody was hurt in the fire, which was the third suspicious fire in that neighborhood in the last six months. “This is a major crime,” said one police investigator. Read the full story on CorneliusNews.net.

A bit of neighborhood teamwork helped police arrest several suspects following at least four vehicle break-ins early Tuesday in the Hobbs Hill neighborhood, off Armour Street. A neighbor called police after watching two men with flashlights attempting to open parked cars. Officers arrived quickly and chased the men into surrounding woods before catching the suspects and recovering the stolen valuables.

Meanwhile, an 18-year-old Davidson man is a suspect in the theft and damage of street signs in the Oakhurst neighborhood of Cornelius last weekend. Details on these incidents and more, along with a tally of the week’s arrests, citations, and traffic violations, may be found below. (21 speeding tickets last week on Griffith Street, among others.) Read the full story

Updated Tuesday, 5:15 p.m.
MI-Connection Communications System has published a 1-page budget summary in advance of a public hearing Thursday on the proposed 2011-12 budget. The system, owned by the towns of Mooresville and Davidson, would keep operating expenses relatively flat – at $15.5 million – and reduce slightly what the the system needs from its owners, the towns of Davidson and Mooresville. Read the full story