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Aquesta reports sharply higher earnings
Jan. 16 Aquesta Financial Holdings, the parent company of Aquesta Bank, reported record earnings and loan growth for the fourth quarter of 2018 as well as the full year. The Cornelius-based bank reported net income of $942,000 compared to $204,000 during the last quarter of 2017. For the full year 2018, net income was $4.2 […]
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Jan. 16 Aquesta Financial Holdings, the parent company of Aquesta Bank, reported record earnings and loan growth for the fourth quarter of 2018 as well as the full year. The Cornelius-based bank reported net income of $942,000 compared to $204,000 during the last quarter of 2017. For the full year 2018, net income was $4.2 […]
Jan. 15. UPDATE 915 pm. Duke Power is reporting some 363 customers in Cornelius are without power because of “required equipment maintenance.” Power went off in an area between the Lake Norman Cove at Jetton townhomes, parts of Edinburgh Square and Ramsey Creek Park on Nantz Road soon after 5 pm. While residents are questioning […]
Lake Norman’s two newly elected legislators will be the Newsmakers Breakfast speakers Jan. 24 at The Peninsula Club. On deck for the traditional Q&A with Cornelius Today and Business Today readers are NC Rep. Christy Clark and NC Sen. Natasha Marcus. Clark, a Huntersville resident, and Marcus, a Davidson resident, represent Cornelius in the General […]
Jan. 15. With Kevin Black rising to Chief of Police in Cornelius, three other officers are on the rise: Major David Baucom began his career in law enforcement with the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office in December of 1992 and came to work for the Cornelius Police Department in April of 1999. He has worked assignments […]
A name from Cornelius business and local GOP politics will be front and center at the Chamber of Commerce in 2019. Tricia Sisson, who ran for Cornelius Town Board in 2017, will officially take over the chamber’s volunteer reins on Friday. The chamber has close to 900 members, about the same as 2017. “Our goal […]
By Dee Eicher. While public education funding has been an issue—including teachers having to dig into their own pockets for supplies—residents of Bailey’s Glen are doing something about it. The Bailey’s Glen-Hough High Partnership has granted funds to Mrs. Joan Viteri, who oversees the Mastery Exchange Program at Hough High. The after-school peer tutoring program […]
Jan. 12. It looks like temperatures will be at or above freezing in Lake Norman while precipitation falls this afternoon and on into tonight and Sunday. The National Weather Service says we’ll see a “slight chance of snow and sleet between 3 pm and 4 pm, then a slight chance of sleet after 4 pm.” Temps […]
Jan. 11. UPDATE 705 pm. Power to more than 900 electric customers down Jetton Road was restored about 7:05 pm after a 10-hour outage. There was no official word back from the utility, but unspecified damage to underground lines were at fault. The power outage extended down much of Jetton Road to Serenity Point and […]
