Cornelius News
3-5 inches forecast for Cornelius, roads getting icy
Jan. 17. UPDATE 1 PM. The snow is coming down nice and steady, it’s sticking and the National Weather Service is sticking to its forecast for 3-5 inches of snow in Cornelius. There will be a hard freeze tonight—17 degrees, so plan on treacherous conditions tonight and early tomorrow. Roads are already icy in unexpected […]
CMS closed, weather service says ‘let it snow,’ bread OK
UPDATE 6 am. Jan. 17. Snow was coming down heavily at 6 am, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools are closed and overnight the National Weather Service changed the forecast for snow from 1-2 inches to 3-5 inches. The flakes right now are big and falling fast. The worst—or best—is expected during morning drive time. The Waffle House […]
Infill project on Town Board agenda
Jan. 16. It’s a small residential development, but how the Cornelius Town Board votes on Oakbrooke Inc.’s plan to rezone and develop 1.63 acres at the end of the Queen Street will provide insight on how the board balances concerns over development against the rights of property owners. Oakbrooke wants to build five new homes […]
Call him Warrior Jace. Help this 5-year-old fight cancer
Jan. 15. The entire community is invited to a gospel singing benefit Jan. 26-27 for Jace Kinley Thompson, the son of Cornelius Police Captain Jennifer Thompson and Eric Thompson, a North Carolina Highway Patrol Sergeant. Jace turns 5 today, Jan. 15. Heaven’s Reign, an outstanding gospel music quartet, will perform during two concert events to […]
Monday is Martin Luther King Day; ring a bell at noon
By Marco Wertheimer. Today we pause to honor the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Schools and banks, as well as Town Hall, will be closed in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, held annually on the third Monday of January. Trash collection today will go on as scheduled, but […]
Man with ties to Cornelius pleads guilty in multimillion-dollar Ponzi case
Richard Wyatt Davis Jr. 41, who once lived in Cornelius, has pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud and one count of tax evasion. According to filed documents and today’s court proceedings, between 2010 and February 2015, Davis defrauded approximately 75 victims of $9.3 million, by inducing them to invest in investment funds Davis controlled, […]
Antiquity road show: More delays for a project that may have gotten too big
By Dave Vieser. In May 2016, with a strong local economy and Cornelius Antiquity neighborhood growing day by day, developer Joe Roy of Charlotte based Meeting Street Company filed a rezoning application with the town which if approved, would have permitted him to build Antiquity Woods, a mixed-use community on 16 acres of vacant land. The […]
Tear down those walls….for public art!
The Cornelius PARC Department is accepting submissions for the 4th Annual Beyond Walls public art exhibit. The selected works will be installed at Robbins Park and will be on exhibit May through January 2019. Beyond Walls is open to artists from across the country who create artworks for public spaces. The opening reception on Saturday, May 5, will include a walking […]
Change will come fast as property values rise
By Dave Yochum. With home prices here climbing on the order of 5, 10 and even 15 percent during the past 18 months, some people are looking at extensive renovations, outright tear-downs and infill development where property has sat empty for decades. Developer John Ogburn wants to build five homes on an infill parcel on Queen […]
Top vote-getter expected to lose in November
By Dave Vieser. It turns out our new mayor pro tem—the highest vote-getter in the 11-way race for Cornelius Board of Commissioners—was “always concerned” that he would lose his re-election bid for one of five seats on the town board. Mike Miltich and his wife Ann may have worked the polls and neighborhoods the hardest […]
