Cornelius News

The tax rate could drop next year in Cornelius while energy bills climb for residents.

Two Mooresville businesses are in the running for the 2012 Small Business of the Year award, to be presented Thursday by the Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce.

By Thomas Smith Staff Reporter tsmith@elkintribune.com Yadkin County commissioners voted unanimously Monday to alter the county's noise ordinance in order to make it more direct and understandable for law enforcement and citizens.

Connoisseurs gathered Saturday, May 12, at Rural Hill to get a taste of North Carolina's next big thing - craft beer.

Communities around the country recognized National Day of Prayer on May 3. Lake Norman community members gathered at Cornelius Town Hall for prayer focused on national, state and local leaders, the military and local schools and churches.

Our Towns Habitat for Humanity challenged interior designers to create a 10-by-10-foot room using only products from the Cornelius and Mooresville Habitat for Humanity ReStores in the 2012 Design Challenge.

N.C. lawmakers will hold a public hearing in Raleigh next week to get feedback on a proposal to pay $50,000 to victims of the state’s decades-long forced sterilization program.

Amid calls for him to use taxpayer money differently, State House Speaker Thom Tillis on Thursday stood by his decision to pay two former top staffers an extra month of salary after they resigned over improper intimate relationships with lobbyists.

Daniel Quinn Bowers, formerly of Rockingham, son of Angela and Dan Hensel of Cornelius, NC, graduated on Saturday, May 12, from the University of North Carolina Charlotte with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

A pair of violent armed robbers targeting grocery and drug stores has apparently hit again.

Mark Sutch does Glen Berger's one-man comedy-drama about a librarian who obsesses over a 123-year-overdue book that mysteriously drops through the door of his building.

When learning a new language, Them said, "If you keep trying and work hard ... people will help you.

According to Officer Aric Wilson of the Alcoa Police Department, Aaron Stahl, 25, Asheville, N.C., was traveling northbound on Alcoa Highway along with two male passengers in a 2002 silver Subaru Impreza and was turning left near Cusick Road to head back southbound.

Consultants and other visitors at Wednesday's drop-in workshop at Cornelius Town Hall looked at maps of the proposed I-77 widening project.

The Charlotte-based health-care system has secured a 23-acre parcel in the 17000 block of Davidson-Concord Road off N.C. Highway 73.

Previously located on 761 N. Main in a former Catholic church, the Prickly Pear will be serving its modern Mexican cuisine at 637 Williamson Rd - formerly VJ Capa's - next to Vinnie's Sardine Grill & Raw Bar.

Republicans Jeff Tarte and John Aneralla appeared Tuesday to be heading for a runoff to decide the newly created N.C. Senate District 41 seat.

The commute is a slow go this Tuesday evening in the Charlotte region, with wrecks and congestion clogging Interstate 77 northbound and southbound; Interstate 40 in Statesville; Interstate 485 near Pineville; and Carmel Road in south Charlotte.

A new dog daycare, dog park and bar in Cornelius, NC was granted a conditional use permit at the Cornelius town board meetingA Monday night.A The board was actually unanimous in favor of the new dog venture by Kelly Waugh and her husband.A The location is on Statesville Road and would structure the dog daycare hours from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.A and the ... (more)

The North Carolina Department of Transportation will hold two public information workshops this week on plans for Interstate 77 high occupancy/toll lanes from Charlotte to Cornelius, Exit 28.