Yesterday I vowed to stop watering my lawn, turn off the artificial river in my backyard, and not run my clothes washer once for each sock that I put in it. Today I went out and checked the level of Lake Norman. Still dropping. What’s going on? Everyone is conserving. Why is it dropping so [...]
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A milestone, but still an experiment
David Boraks is a longtime journalist and founder of DavidsonNews.net.
Hard to believe it’s been a year since we started DavidsonNews.net. I’m not much for big celebrations, but as my colleague Laurie Dennis notes, this one’s worth celebrating. And what a year it has been. READ MORE>
Reinventing local news online
Laurie [...]
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Rodney Graham is a resident of the New Neighborhood in Old Davidson and a local developer and homebuilder.
It’s a good time to be a tree in Davidson. Unfortunately, it’s not such a great time to be a police officer, firefighter, military serviceman, school teacher, or any of the other noble professionals who typically occupy what [...]
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BY ANN FOX
I have lived in the immediate Exit 30 area for over two years now and the development itself dates from several years before I moved in. Yet typically, when I tell someone in Davidson where I live, they pause to consider, look at me quizzically, then ask politely: “Where is that, exactly?”
Ann Fox [...]
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To the editor: The Charlotte Observer reported recently that Charlotte commuters waste 45 hours per year stuck in traffic - that’s a full week’s vacation. The same day, our county commissioners were featured on the front page debating the half-cent transit tax. Those opposed complain about the cost overruns of commuter rail. We’ve heard plenty [...]
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In a comment posted over the weekend, resident Robert Maier suggested that residents concerned about the animal cruelty case against community services officer Kenn Latzer raise the issue during the public comment period of Tuesday’s town board meeting. Town board member Cary Johnston has written to DavidsonNews.net welcoming residents to the meeting, but she [...]
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Davidson’s Sam Spencer IV was interviewed on Charlotte public radio station WFAE-FM last week about the campaign he is helping to lead to save the Charlotte Transit bus system. Mr. Spencer, a Davidson College student, says this November’s referendum on the 1/2 cent sales tax for transit is more about buses than light-rail, which has [...]
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I called Elaine Funderburk, our postmaster, this week to ask her to cut down the dead tree in the parking lot and I also called Town Manager Leamon Brice to voice my concerns.
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Realtors and homebuilders are running TV ads and lobbying heavily at the state legislature against a proposal that would let counties hold votes on whether to impose a new real estate transfer tax. Realtors and builders say the tax would hurt homeowners. The proposal wouldn’t enact a new tax, but it would give counties the [...]
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The razzle-dazzle title number in the Davidson Community Players’ “Hello, Dolly!” will have you humming along. (Photo by Bill Giduz)
Review by Laurie Dennis:
From the moment she rides onto the stage on a yellow bicycle built for two, the fabulous Dolly Gallagher Levi claims the spotlight. “I’m a woman who arranges things,” she [...]
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