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Editorial Advisory Board applications requested
Cornelius Today is forming an Editorial Advisory Board to help guide coverage and gather a deeper knowledge of our community. The locally owned news organization will look for members who represent the diversity of our town; no prior experience is necessary, nor is a background in journalism. “This is about content, diversity, different points of […]
Jane Campbell to be on ballot for NC House District 98
June 23. Retired U.S. Navy Capt. Jane Campbell, a Davidson College graduate, has gotten enough signatures to get on the November ballot. She will run against incumbent NC Rep. John Bradford, a former member of the Cornelius Town Board. Campbell has more than 2,800 signatures, at least 400 more than the Charlotte Mecklenburg County Board of […]
Dixon Digs Deep
By Suzanne Fulton. A holistic lifestyle is important to Katie Dixon, owner of Kadi Fit Lifestyle Design Studio, so she established a community garden out back a few years ago, providing the raised beds and soil. She wanted people to be able to have a plot and grow vegetables. The McFadden family plot, for example, was […]
County Commissioner calls censured mayor’s behavior ‘traitorous’
June 11. ANALYSIS. By Dave Yochum. Cornelius Mayor Chuck Travis chose June 8, “Town Hall Day” in the NC State Capitol, to express his personal views on widening I-77 to NC Sen. Philip Berger, the man who has so much to do with the ebb and flow of legislation in Raleigh. It was a peculiar […]
New owner at Madison River
June 9. There’s a new owner at Madison River Fly Fishing Outfitters in Shops on the Green. Ryan Wilson, a life-long avid angler, paid an undisclosed amount for the business which has been a mainstay of the local sporting community since 2000. “Madison River represents a significant career change for me,” said Wilson. His background […]
Closed Kenton Place supermarket will be HT ‘reclaim center’
May 19. By Dave Vieser. Four years after Harris Teeter officials said they planned to convert the closed Lowe’s Supermarket in Cornelius into a new worldwide specialty food store, they have found a very different use for the vacant 49,000 square foot building located on Kenton Place: An internal reclaim center for their regional operation, […]
Cornelius resident shepherds venture through rapid growth
Three Lake Norman companies did well in the Charlotte Venture Challenge, where start-ups compete for attention from early stage investors. One of them was really phun. Cornelius resident Jeffrey Kaplan is the founder of dogphrendly.com, which he hopes will grow into the ultimate online app to find where to eat, play, and stay with your […]
Meet Julie Niswonger, our town’s new finance director
By Dave Vieser. Julie Niswonger says her new job as finance director for the town of Cornelius couldn’t have come at a better time. “I had been looking to advance further,” said Niswonger, 38. She replaces Jackie Huffman who became finance director for the Town of Huntersville. “With Jackie leaving, it really made sense for me […]
Antiquity retail: Truliant opens, Novant coming
May 12. By Dave Vieser. More than six months behind schedule, things are finally beginning to happen for the storefronts in Antiquity. Truliant Federal Credit Union is open, work is progressing on several other storefronts and Novant Health just agreed to occupy Building E, an office complex to be built on Zion Avenue west of […]
We have the meat on new Arby’s in Cornelius
May 11. By Dave Vieser. Arby’s is coming to Cornelius, and with a whole new look. Developer Stonegate LLC plans to build a 2,200 square-foot restaurant on a 1.6 acre parcel across from Lake Norman Tractor on Hwy. 21. While there are Arby’s stores in Mooresville and Huntersville, this one will have a whole new design, according […]
