Cornelius News
Funeral Tuesday for Eudean Knox
Funeral Services will be held Tuesday, March 13, for Eudean Knox who died last week in an automobile accident. Visitation begins at noon at Torrence Chapel AME Zion Church on Torrence Chapel Road. The funeral will be at 1 pm with Rev. Ellison Bowman officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The beloved community […]
Newly published fantasy author lives in Cornelius in real life
By Dave Yochum. Michael Liguori is a mild-mannered e-commerce guy by day, and a mild-mannered fantasy novelist by night. Hydra Publications just published “Virtue and Vengeance,” a 500-page fantasy novel. Hydra has also published fantasy novels from New York Times bestselling author Richard A. Knaak and Amazon bestselling author Stuart Thaman. Louisville-based Hydra is the […]
Amadeo siblings score college milestones
Gabriela Amadeo and Sal Amadeo, sister and brother from Cornelius, are racking up honors in college. Gabriela is among several students who have been nominated for Outstanding Student of the Year at Campbell University’s School of Education. Gabriela, a member of the PSI CHI International Honor Society, is a psychology major and will graduate in […]
Is a cycling-friendly Cornelius within biking distance?
By Dave Yochum. Cornelius is getting serious about making the town bicycle friendly. More than two dozen bike signs are expected to go up this month. The signs will help cyclists—and motorists—get to know five key routes around town. The goal is to make cycling a meaningful way to get from Point A to Point […]
Honor Flight seeks sponsors, donations
March 8. By Dave Vieser. Queen City Honor Flight is accepting donations to honor WWII, Korean and Vietnam veterans by flying them to visit memorials and monuments in Washington, D.C. Stephanie Bradley, president of Queen City Honor Flight, whose dad was a Marine, began the Charlotte group early last year. It usually takes […]
Meeting on Hwy. 73 widening is Monday
Although Hwy. 73 is a key east-west artery in Lake Norman, it traverses only a small portion of Cornelius. That section will be the focus of a special drop-in a meeting that starts at 7 pm Monday March 12 at Cornelius Town Hall. There will be no formal program, but residents will have the opportunity […]
Town budget: Property taxes look flat in new fiscal year
March 8. By Dave Yochum. It looks like the property tax rate in Cornelius will stay the same in the upcoming fiscal year which begins July 1. Town officials are concluding two all-day sessions today at the Graylyn Conference Center in Winston-Salem—the traditional start of the months-long budget setting process which results in the tax rate […]
Feedback sought on new rec center
The Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department, along with the parks departments from Cornelius, Davidson and Huntersville, will host an open house at Bailey Middle School from 10 am to 1 pm Saturday, to discuss the planning process for the Northern Regional Recreation Center. The facility will be located at 18121 Old Statesville Road in […]
Eat This Up: Clean Juice growth spurt
It turns out that the little organic juice bar in Birkdale Village is one of the hottest franchises in the country. Clean Juice, based in Huntersville, has been named the NextGen in Franchising Global Competition Winner of 2018 and Franchise Gator’s fifth fastest-growing franchise of 2018. Their first location is in Birkdale. Since 2015 they […]
How do you merge gradually in bumper-to-bumper traffic?
March 5. By Dave Vieser. Local officials kicked the tires on the I-77 exit scheme and pronounced the plan a clunker at the third meeting of I77’s Advisory Group. “It appears that the design calls for about a half mile of stacking space,” said County Commissioner Jim Puckett. “I can tell you from personal experience […]
