Cornelius News
United Way: Volunteers contribute 1,508 hours in 4 days
Sept. 21. United Way of Central Carolinas brought together 377 Mooresville/Lake Norman-area residents to serve their neighbors from Wednesday to Saturday last week for the sixth annual Days of Caring. United Way’s celebration of service has grown considerably since 2012, when it was a single-day event, thanks to widespread community interest and key sponsors who […]
Not quite a border war, but Cornelius defends northern edge
Sept. 21. By Dave Vieser. The Cornelius Town Board will look into how to write a resolution in opposition to the Potts Street Development that straddles the Davidson town line near the YMCA. Although the Cornelius portion of the rezoning application from Crescent Communities for nine homes has been withdrawn, plans for a 295 unit complex […]
September surprise: Town must spend $600K on radios
Sept. 20. By Dave Vieser. The Cornelius Town Board has agreed to spend $600,000 on new public safety radios for the police and fire departments. The expense was not budgeted for this year according to Police Chief Bence Hoyle and Fire Chief Neil Smith because the town was under the impression they could wait until […]
Cornelius Sushi at the Lake closed for good
Sept. 20. By Dave Vieser. Sushi fans will be saddened to learn that one of Lake Norman’s oldest and best known Sushi restaurants, Sushi at the Lake, will not reopen their Cornelius eatery after a fire back in April. Their Mooresville facility on Bluefield Road remains open. “During the past several weeks, the owners decided […]
Davidson resident, 26, admits vandalizing monument
Sept. 19. By Dave Yochum. A 26-year-old Davidson man has confessed to defacing the Confederate Veterans Monument on Zion Street. The monument, erected in 1905 during the Jim Crow era, sits on Zion Avenue in Cornelius, almost directly across from Fire Station No. 1. Cornelius Police say Maxwell Montague Sommer was arrested by Davidson Police […]
Diane Stevenson, 73
Diane Stevenson, 73 of Huntersville, NC passed away on September 16, 2017. She was born on August 30, 1944 in Marinette, WI to the late Frank and Henrietta Shutes Schiner. Along with her parents she is preceded in death by her husband, Robert Stevenson; brother, Henry Schiner, and sister, Mary Jane Ellis. She is survived […]
Last Call for breakfast with the Chief
Davidson Police Chief Penny Dunn will be the Newsmakers Breakfast speaker Sept. 19 at The Peninsula Club. Only about one in 100 chiefs of police in America is female. Newsmakers Breakfasts are open-forum Q&As with people who make the news. Anyone can ask a question. Dunn started her law enforcement career in 1986 and has […]
Greyson Ferrell sentenced to at least 7 years
Sept. 11. Greyson Ferrell, 19, will spend at least seven years in prison for shooting a Cornelius police officer who responded to a call for assistance at his home on Coachman’s Trace. Ferrell pled guilty in August to assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill and assault with a firearm on a […]
Town Hall: Potts St. hearing cancelled
Sept. 18. The public hearing on the Potts Street development has been canceled. Crescent Communities, has withdrawn their application. It is now unclear whether the original proposal, which called for nine homes in Cornelius as part of 295 units in Davidson, will ever come before the Cornelius Town Board. “It’s my understanding that the developer […]
New project from Crescent wrenches opposition from Davidson, Gilroy
Sept. 13. Crescent Acquisitions’ rezoning request to build nine homes in Cornelius was withdrawn at the Cornelius Planning Board’s Sept. 11 meeting. About 20 people, many from Davidson, were in attendance and applauded the news. For at least one Cornelius Commissioner, the 295-unit apartment project just over the town border is “a good example […]
