Cornelius News
Weekly calendar Oct. 9-15: Business Expo, Jewish Deli fest, more food and music
Calendar Sponsors Monday, Oct. 9 Organ at Davidson 7:30 pm | Oct. 9. Free and open to the public in-person and live streaming. Davidson College Presbyterian Church, 100 N. Main St., Davidson. Tuesday, Oct. 10 Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce Business EXPO 11 am – 5 pm | Oct. 10. Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce […]
Carolina Renaissance Festival: Special guests this weekend for 30th anniversary
Oct. 6. The Carolina Renaissance Festival is celebrating its 30th year with special guests on Saturdays and Sundays now through Nov. 19. There are special guests this weekend for the Big Three-Oh: —Ned Alleyn’s Comedy Witch Trials: Famed tragedian Ned Alleyn flips the script on the classic witch trial by putting silly men on trial […]
CATS has a new bus from Uptown to North Meck
Oct. 6. The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) has added a new afternoon bus to its popular North Mecklenburg Express Route 77x, which will leave Charlotte at 3:20 pm weekdays. This is the bus route which serves the Cornelius Park and Ride lot on Jetton Road Extension/Sefton Road. The change follows customer survey results whereby […]
Weekender Oct. 5-8: Oh, the places you’ll go! (apologies to Dr. Seuss)
Calendar Sponsors Thursday, Oct. 5 Davidson College Choirs & Stile Antico: The Byrd & The Bees 7:30pm | Oct. 5. Commemorating 400 years since the death of William Byrd, our choirs are joined by a professional London-based ensemble, Stile Antico. Together, they present this season’s InChoir series concert, a program of Renaissance polyphony alongside contemporary […]
‘Riversweep’ to clean up Lake Norman this Saturday
Oct. 5. Catawba Riversweep, a community cleanup of the Catawba-Wateree River Basin, will take place on Saturday, Oct. 7 from 9 to noon. Volunteers and organizations from 26 counties across North and South Carolina will convene at more than 50 locations across the basin for the one-day cleanup led by the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation. In […]
Cain Park’s first event ever is ‘Festival of Cultures’ on Saturday
Oct. 5. The Cornelius Festival of Cultures will be held this Saturday at Cain Park, just outside the Cain Center for the Arts. The event, which is the first to be held at the pocket park, will showcase more than a dozen local cultures. There will be art and craft vendors and live performances, as […]
Bradley, Hershey will be sentenced Oct. 26 in wire fraud case
Oct. 4. Sentencing hearings for Marlin Shawn Hershey and Dana Bradley have been set for Oct. 26 in the courtroom of Judge Frank Whitney. The Cornelius residents could face up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud conspiracy for orchestrating a large-scale investment scheme. Federal prosecutors said they ran a classic […]
LKN Chamber comes out in favor of school bond proposal, Huntersville bonds
Oct. 4. The Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has voted unanimously to support the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools’ $2.5 billion bond proposal and encouraged the member businesses and citizens to vote in support of the measure in November. “A $2.5 billion school bond package initially seems like too big of an ask. Then […]
A handful of booths available at LKN Chamber Expo Oct. 10
Oct. 4. The Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce is bringing the Business Expo back to the Huntersville Recreation Center on Verhoeff Drive Oct. 10. Lake Norman’s largest business trade show—it’s the chamber’s signature event—will feature more than 100 vendor booths. It was cancelled due to COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021. In years past, more than […]
Live like you never know what’s next
MODERN DAD | By Jon Show Oct. 6. You don’t really get to have adventures as an adult. I don’t mean adult adventures like traveling to another country or eating weird food. I mean like Tom Sawyer adventures. The kind of adventures where you never know what’s next. When you’re an adult, there’s no grabbing […]