Community
Carolina Comfort Coalition’s Serenity House awarded a $5,000 grant to complete kitchen
Nov. 25 Carolina Comfort Coalition’s Serenity House of Huntersville received a $5,000 Lowe’s Community Partners grant for kitchen renovations. The Serenity House will use the grant to install new appliances, update cabinetry and fix wall coverings. Individuals, businesses and civic groups completed renovations throughout the house earlier in the year. The kitchen was the last room […]
O2 Energies is building a 20 acre solar farm
Nov. 25 Cornelius-based O2 Energies is building a 20 acre solar farm worth $10 million in Rowan County. The 4.25 megawatt solar farm is the first of its kind in the area and will generate enough clean electricity to offset the annual electricity usage of more than 500 homes.The farm will use an innovative inverter design. […]
Project for Innovation, Energy and Sustainability, and Sustain Charlotte meet Dec. 2
Nov. 25 Green Drinks Lake Norman and Sustain Charlotte join together this month to build a network of sustainability by hosting a speaker from Duke Energy. The meeting will take place on Dec. 2nd at Triple C Brewing in Charlotte (2900 Griffith St Charlotte, NC 28203). The program starts at 5:30 p.m.
‘Crowdfunding’ drive will help Lomax Farm
Nov. 10 When the future of the Lomax Incubator Farm in Cabarrus County looked grim over the summer, Scott Avett made his voice heard. A vocalist and banjo player for the nationally known folk rock group The Avett Brothers, Scott helped rally support for the project and pledged to help with both time and money to […]
Ingersoll Rand raises $1.27M for United Way of Central Carolinas
Nov. 18 Ingersoll Rand raised $1.27 million for United Way of the Carolinas, shattering the company goal of $1 million, and compelling United Way to induct them into the Million Dollar Club. Ingersoll Rand is the first company outside Charlotte to surpass the million dollar mark for United Way of Central Carolinas, joining Bank of America, […]
‘Crowdfunding’ drive will help Lomax Farm
Nov. 10 When the future of the Lomax Incubator Farm in Cabarrus County looked grim over the summer, Scott Avett made his voice heard. A vocalist and banjo player for the nationally known folk rock group The Avett Brothers, Scott helped rally support for the project and pledged to help with both time and money to […]
Chamber hopes to launch Young Professionals Group
Nov. 7 The Lake Norman Chamber, in collaboration with the Northwest Division of the Charlotte Chamber, is hosting a reception Nov. 11. Through the event, which will be held at Harvey’s in Cornelius (19707 Liverpool Pkwy.) from 7 to 8:30 p.m., the chambers hope to attract young, civic minded people to start The Lake Norman Young […]
‘Paper Towns’ films on Nantz Road
Nov. 4 Hollywood returns to Cornelius next week when filming for a 20th Century Fox movie gets under way at a large waterfront home on Nantz Road. “Paper Towns” will be filming a party scene Nov. 7 across the cove from Ramsey Creek Park where production crews will be setting up and staging Nov. 6-8. (more…)
