Volunteers planted trees on Davidson’s West Side Saturday as part of an Earth Day “Neighborwood” tree planting. (Bill Giduz/DavidsonNews.net)

Volunteers planted trees Saturday in Davidson’s West Side neighborhood as part of an Earth Day “Neighborwood” tree planting. (Bill Giduz/DavidsonNews.net)

‘NEIGHBORWOOD’ TREE PLANTING

Volunteers planted trees in Davidson’s West Side neighborhood on Saturday, April 20, in what organizers called it a “NeighborWood” tree planting. Read the full story

Director Courtenay O’Neil (green shirt in back) and children from Davidson Cornelius Child Development Center.

Davidson-Cornelius Child Development Center on Gamble Street in Davidson has completed renovations that include two new infant classrooms and is now taking applications from families who need full-time infant care. The center plans an open house and dedication for the new program on Thursday, March 21. Read the full story

Volunteer builders from Saussy Burbank and JCB Urban are working this week to present 84-year-old Matty Mundy with a much needed holiday gift. Ms. Mundy has lived in her home on Westside Terrace in Davidson for 20 years, but not been financially able to properly maintain it. Bill Giduz reports on the annual project with the Davidson Housing Coalition’s HAMMERS emergency home repair program, in REAL ESTATE & HOME»

Police are investigating several assaults over the past week, including one where an elderly man alleged he was assaulted by his grandson on Westside Terrace. Also this week, a 37-year-old Mount Holly man  was arrested after police stopped his car on Griffith Street and discovered he was wanted on additional charges including possession of stolen goods. Details on these incidents and more (along with a tally of the week’s arrests, citations, and traffic enforcement) may be found below. Read the full story

Construction crew repairs an old dam at a pond on town owned land off Beaty Street (Jay Wilson/DavidsonNews.net)

The town of Davidson is in the midst of a $138,000 project to repair an old  dam off Beaty Street that state officials consider to be a “high hazard.” The earthen dam holds back a pond on about 14 acres that the town owns, across from the entrance to Ingersoll-Rand. Read the full story

Updated 6:02 p.m. Monday
Davidson police received at least 20 complaints of automobile break-ins over the weekend, including two stolen cars that later were recovered in Cornelius. The break-ins, nearly all involving unlocked cars, came in neighborhoods around town from Davidson Gateway Drive and the Delburg Street area to Lorimer Road and the McConnell neighborhood. Read the full story

Runners tore away from the Gamble Street starting line in the Fire 5K Saturday morning. 119 runners registered. That’s eventual winner Dexter Cherry in the bright green shirt at center (No. 421). (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

Updated Tues., Oct. 2, with BBQ winners & fundraising total
The grounds of the Ada Jenkins Center in Davidson were a multi-ring circus Saturday for the center’s 4th annual Fire barbecue festival and 5K run.Fire is the center’s biggest community event of the year, and a major fundraiser for services that range from the Learn Works after school program to free health and dental clinics to food and counseling services.

This year’s festival raised $20,000 toward the center’s budget of about $1.5 million. But more than that, said board co-chair Rodney Short of Cornelius, “It’s a great community day for us. It’s an opportunity to bring the community together.” Read the full story

Best Town Board meeting ever? Community School of Davidson students taught the Town Board a dance for Davidson Lands Conservancy Green Day festival Saturday. (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

Updated Wednesday, 11:24 a.m.
Davidson’s Town Board on Tuesday agreed to allow Piedmont Natural Gas to run a gas pipeline through Fisher Farm, off Shearers Road in northeast Davidson. And planning manager Ben McCrary presented the board with a request for money to complete a $2.5 million road connection and improvements in the Potts-Sloan-Beaty corridor on Davidson’s West Side. Read the full story