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Thanksgiving service, holiday farmer’s market and more

It’s a weekend for listening to gospel music or a college piano recital, shopping at the Holiday Farmer’s Market or the student lightbulb sale on the green, and catching one of the last two shows of “Hamlet.”  Wildcat sports includes a sold-out men’s hoops game Friday, football Saturday and a swimming/diving invitational all weekend long.  [...]

NIT games here next week

Davidson College Sports Information

Davidson’s John M. Belk Arena will serve as a consolation round site for the Dick’s Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off. Davidson will host doubleheader sessions Monday, Nov. 24, and Tuesday, Nov. 25. Because this is an NIT event, Davidson season tickets and parking passes are NOT valid.

Fund-raisers: ‘green’ light bulb sale and ‘Doggie Dash’

Five 2-3 multiage classes at Davidson Elementary school will be selling compact fluorescent light bulbs on the Davidson Village Green this Saturday, Nov. 22, 9:30 to noon, as part of a community service fund-raiser on behalf of schoolchildren in Kenya.
Also Saturday, a group of North Mecklenburg High School students has organized a 5K race and [...]

Lectures, Cats vs. Winthrop, farm market, interfaith service

Town, school, and college events will keep us all busy this week. Virginia Dodge Fielder, the visiting James K. Batten Professor of Public Policy at Davidson College, gives the 2008 Batten Lecture Monday night. The Mooresville-Davidson Lake Davidson planning committee meets Tuesday morning at Town Hall. Tuesday night, choose between an organ concert at [...]

Wildcats basketball opener tonight is a sellout

Davidson College’s season opening men’s basketball game against Guilford tonight (Friday, Nov. 14) is sold out.  The game begins at 9 p.m. at Belk Arena. College officials are encouraging fans to arrive early to avoid potential traffic and parking problems. Also tonight, Davidson’s volleyball team will host the Wofford Terriers at 6 p.m., also at [...]

Residents to hear from asbestos expert Thursday

Residents of Davidson’s West Side who are concerned about redevelopment of the Metrolina Warehouse will hear a presentation about asbestos removal by a Mecklenburg County environmental expert at their next meeting Thursday, Nov. 20. The meeting is open to all Davidson residents and begins at 7 p.m. at the Senior Nutrition Center cafeteria behind [...]

A weekend for art, theater and sports

Enjoy art? Then you have two openings to choose from this weekend - both the Lake Norman Art League and the Cornelius Arts Center will be hosting receptions Friday.
Like theater? Then plan on catching the Davidson Community Players musical, “Working” or the Davidson College production of “Hamlet,” both presented on new stages.
Sports fan? [...]

Clergy organize a town-wide Thanksgiving service

Local clergy are planning a civil and religious community Thanksgiving service Sunday, Nov. 23, 5 p.m., at Gethsemane Baptist Church, to help renew interfaith cooperation in town and express gratitude for the work of town officials and departments. The joint celebration is the first of its kind in Davidson in at least a decade [...]

Town Board to vote on zoning change, budget amendment

The Town Board meets Tuesday, Nov. 11, for a pair of public hearings and votes: on a proposed zoning change at a home on Davidson-Concord Road and on proposed revisions to the county’s Soil and Erosion Sedimentation Control Ordinance. The board also is expected to approve a $37,100 budget amendment and proposed revisions to the [...]

Cats’ opener, soccer tourney, Town Board meeting

This week’s calendar in Davidson includes an Election 2008 lecture at the college tonight by Newsweek editor Jon Meacham and the monthly Town Board meeting on Tuesday. Exhibit openings are scheduled at Cornelius Arts Center and Lake Norman Art League Friday and “Hamlet” opens as the lead-off production in Davidson College’s newly renovated Barber [...]