Cornelius News
Antiquity HOA seeks help with Old Canal sink hole
Dec. 3. By Dave Vieser. At the Cornelius Town Board meeting Monday night, commissioners received an appeal for help from Phil Bechtold, president of the Antiquity HOA. His comments concerned another sink hole which has opened up on Old Canal Street in the Antiquity community. “Although it’s on private property, this sink hole has created […]
Cornelius begins search for Public Safety Director
By Dave Vieser. Cornelius is looking for a public safety director to help oversee the town’s fire and police departments. Budgeted at $100,000 annually, the new administrative layer between Town Manager Andrew Grant and the chiefs could be filled by a consultant or a new town employee. “I’ll evaluate the interested firms and potential candidates, […]
More questions, more answers on I-77 toll lanes
The new lanes in Cornelius and Huntersville will be completed and open by January but closer to Charlotte work won’t be done until later in the year. Detectors have been installed above the toll lanes to read license information on cars using the toll lanes. We put together a Q&A Nov. 24. Here are more questions and answers, […]
Santa attends Light Up Cornelius
Nov. 25. Christmas is off to a fast start, thanks to an early Thanksgiving, as well as “Light Up Cornelius” Saturday evening at Town Hall. Hundreds of families were there for not just Santa, but food trucks, crafts and music. Put on by the PARC Dept., the event featured the annual tree-lighting on the lawn […]
New sinkhole closes Old Canal in Antiquity
Nov. 24. Barricades are blocking Old Canal Street in Antiquity after another sinkhole has appeared alongside a busy street that connects South Street in Davidson to Main Street in Cornelius. The sinkhole in the Antiquity subdivision has been temporarily filled with gravel. The 8- to 10-foot hole is adjacent to the pavement, not in the […]
Light Up Cornelius starts at 4 pm downtown
The weather outside was frightful this morning, but it will be fine by the time Light Up Cornelius gets under way in downtown Cornelius late this afternoon. The annual Christmas tree lighting on the lawn behind Cornelius Town Hall is a town tradition. The National Weather Service says precipitation ends early this afternoon; the high […]
Cornelius fraudster Rich Davis checks into prison in Alabama
By Dave Yochum. Velveeta is $2.95, Vienna sausages are $2.55 and Spam is 90 cents at the Montgomery Air Force Base Federal Prison Camp, which Richard Wyatt Davis Jr. now calls home. Davis, 42, lived the high life in a 5,800-square-foot lakefront mansion on Belle Isle Drive. Now he’s prisoner No. 33303-058 in Alabama. His […]
Peninsula Community Foundation grant
The Peninsula Community Foundation approved a $4,000 grant to Live Healthy Carolinas, a Davidson-based charity that provides holistic education to reverse and prevent disease. The grant will go towards materials to support the Live Healthy Kids program at Lake Norman Charter School. It teaches children healthy habits through hands-on cooking, nutrition lessons, and physical activities. The […]
Cool fall weather on Thanksgiving, tree-lighting Saturday
Look for great Cornelius weather on Thanksgiving Eve and Turkey Day itself. The weather will be sunnuy both days with hights around 53 or 55 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Friday will be a much more chilly, no more than 45 degrees, according to NWS. Showers come in Friday night and stay with us […]
Town Board OKs Charter Cornelius project in 4-1 vote
Nov. 20. By Dave Vieser. The days are numbered for that 11-acre stand of pine trees between Knox Road and West Catawba. In a 4-1 decision, the Cornelius Town Board approved the rezoning of prime commercial land Monday evening to allow the construction of retail and office buildings. The approval followed a two-hour public […]
