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Former legislator, psychiatrist will field questions on medical marijuana
Jeff Tarte, a 6-year member of both the NC Senate Health Care Committee and Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health Care, has been added to the Newsmakers Breakfast agenda Wednesday morning June 19 at The Peninsula Club. The former NC senator is a graduate of the Legislative Health Policy Fellows Program at the NC Institute […]
Shelf awareness
By Dave Yochum. Entrepreneurs aren’t always bookish types, but Melinda Humphreys is. The owner of Walls of Books in the Shops on the Green, taught high school English in Virginia for seven years but before that she was a bookseller with Barnes & Noble. The Antiquity resident, who hit the books at Ohio University, is […]
Incidents, Arrests and Citations as reported by the Cornelius Police Department June 7
Incidents 190530004 B&E Vehicle 16226 Sasanoa Dr 06:40:00 05/30/19 ACT Seidenspinner, Richard & Julie 190530004 B&E Vehicle 7609 Windaliere Dr 06:40:00 05/30/19 ACT Smith, Michael 190530004 B&E Vehicle 16215 Sasanoa Dr 06:40:00 05/30/19 ACT Lynch, Melissa Gail 190530004 B&E Vehicle 16242 Sasanoa Dr 06:40:00 05/30/19 ACT Dean, Cathy Johnson 190530004 B&E Vehicle 7308 Windaliere Dr […]
OSHA investigating fatal roofing accident
June 7. By Dave Yochum. UPDATED. The North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the circumstances around the death Wednesday of a father of four who fell from the roof of a mansion on Paradise Cove in The Peninsula. Jason Ray Thomas, 41, was employed by Taylor Roofing in Waxhaw. Cornelius Today has learned that OSHA also […]
Healing Dragons paddle for a cause
By Dave Yochum. Ramsey Creek Park came to life May 18 with the Asian Festival and the Charlotte Dragon Boat Race. In the midst of all the action there was a determined group—many of them Cornelius cancer survivors—absolutely stoked for the challenge. Their name: The Healing Dragons. Pam Boileau, a Cornelius resident and a local […]
Strip shopping center sells
June 6. Turnberry Place, the strip shopping center that is home to Matt’s Chicago Dogs, has sold for $3.5 million. Ziff Properties, based in Mount Pleasant, SC, bought the property from Turnberry Equities in Charlotte. The property was the home of Sushi at the Lake as well as the old Mail Boxes Etc. franchise, owned […]
Big Day at the Lake XV needs Boat Hosts July 20
Big Day at the Lake XV is July 20, which means hundreds of children and youth from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Carolinas will come to Lake Norman for a full day of fun. More than 100 Boat Hosts are needed to take the children—along with their mentors—out on the lake for a morning […]
Street Smarts: Everyone in Cornelius can have them
By Dave Yochum. A new online program called Street Smarts lets Cornelius residents report traffic and transportation problems from their laptop or cell phone. Conceived by the town’s Transportation Advisory Board, Street Smarts addresses both problems and opportunities on town roads, not necessarily I-77. The website is www.cornelius.org/streetsmarts. Street Smarts will ultimately help the Transportation […]
Power restored to 76 homes near Jetton
June 4. UPDATE NOON. Duke Energy crews have restored power to 76 customers along Jetton between Captains Watch and John Connor. Duke originally said power would be restored at 5:30 am, and then 3:30 pm. The outage, caused by equipment failure, was fully restored around lunchtime.
I-77 shoulder hardening starts next spring/summer
June 4. By Dave Yochum. NC Sen. Natasha Marcus says reconstruction of the shoulders of I-77—known as hardening—will begin late spring or early summer next year. The work, which is not part of the I- 77 Mobility Partners/Cintra contract, will add capacity to the controversial highway. NCDOT will bid out the contract for the hardening […]
