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Workforce development team gets community college award
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, Castle & Cooke and the City of Kannapolis have been named the NC Community College System’s 2019 Distinguished Partners in Excellence. It’s a big feather in their cap as the partnership begins its second decade. The goal: Training the workforce of the future. “By working together, we are able to create new […]
Medical marijuana is subject of Newsmakers Breakfast June 19
Dr. William F. Wright, a psychiatrist with Atrium Health, will be the Newsmakers Breakfast speaker June 19 at The Peninsula Club. The subject is medical marijuana and CBD oil. WILLIAM WRIGHT, MD The Q&A over breakfast will take an unbiased, scientific look at the growing use and sale of cannabis-derived oils and medical claims. Wright, one […]
Augustalee property is under contract
June 11. By Dave Yochum. One of the most significant development sites in Lake Norman is under contract, years after the original project—known as Augustalee—flamed across the economic development sky into foreclosure. The sale price and buyer likely won’t be disclosed until after a 150-day due diligence period is completed. Executives at Concord-based ACN purchased […]
Coach Healy speaking June 20
June 10. The Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce will host UNC Charlotte Football Coach Will Healy Thursday, June 20 at a PowerLuncheon at NorthStone Country Club. The topic is “Building the Winning Team from the Gridiron to the Board Room.” He will discuss how leadership is not about a title or a designation as much […]
Housing here is just fine, despite slipping elsewhere
June 10. By Dave Yochum. While the the S&P Dow Jones Indices show declines for five cities—Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego—home price appreciation is doing just fine in Charlotte and the surrounding suburbs. It’s surprising housing isn’t still off the charts: Mortgage rates are at 4 percent, unemployment is close to […]
Toll lanes open with little traffic, little fanfare
June 3. At 8:30 am Monday, traffic was flowing freely at Exit 28 on down to Westmoreland, while hardly any vehicles were traveling southbound in the Express/Toll lanes. After 3 1/2 years of construction, the first stretch of toll lanes is open on a work day. The toll lanes are open from Exit 36 in […]
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 […]
Greenheck, a manufacturer, announces $58.8 million expansion in Shelby
May 30. Greenheck Group, a Wisconsin-based manufacturer of commercial and industrial ventilation equipment, will build a $58.8 million campus in Shelby, bringing 400 new jobs. Greenheck already employs more than 400 people in North Carolina. “With the addition of a campus we will be able to offer team members a variety of career opportunities and […]
Golf scores: Rain, Tiger affect clubs
By Debbie Griffin. Local experts name in common two extraordinary things impacting golf right now: Tiger Woods won the recent Masters Tournament and there has been excessive rain with extended cold. Developer, co-owner and general manager of the semi-private Verdict Ridge in Denver, Scott Knox, said the win re-energizes the game plus is a good […]
Good mourning takes many different forms
By Dave Yochum. None of us is going to get out of this alive, which means the funeral business looks good as Baby Boomers enter their, uh, prime consumer years. Nevertheless, the time-honored ritual is becoming more secular and casual as Americans change their notion of an appropriate good-bye. “The times, they are a ‘changin,” […]
