Monthly Archives: March 2011

Businessmen find thrills, success in off-road racing by Hugh Fisher Darren Lingafeldt and Jay Pool have been neighbors in Mountain Island for eight years. They’re businessmen. Pool is a sales… Read more »

by Andrew Batten CHARLOTTE – Hopewell and West Mecklenburg high schools reported another decline in crime and violence during the 2009-10 year, according to a report released last week by… Read more »

by Alan Hodge Since its founding more than a half century ago, the Cooks Community Volunteer Fire Department has seen the once rural area it serves experience some of the… Read more »

Staff report Jury selection began March 14 in the case of one of two men accused of murdering a Charlotte college student whose body was discovered in 2008 on the… Read more »

An orphaned baby owl has a new home, and the Carolina Raptor’s Center has its 15,000th patient. The great horned owl was transferred from the Triangle Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in… Read more »

The annual Rural Hill Scottish Festival will return April 15, 16 and 17, and the competition is already heating up. Huntersville native Eric Frasure will return to defend his world-record… Read more »

CHARLOTTE –The Mountain Island branch of the Mecklenburg County library will host a free class on tightening up that resume. On March 25, the library staff will teach a class… Read more »

The U.S. Drought Monitor said major rainstorms that pushed through the area in early March have improved drought conditions to moderate levels. Mountain Island Lake though is still below its… Read more »

HUNTERSVILLE – The 15th annual Angels of ’97 spaghetti dinner and auction take place Saturday, March 19, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the North Mecklenburg High School cafeteria…. Read more »

The West Mecklenburg High School Debate Team will lead the Kids’ Court Saturday, March 19, as they re-enact the trials of three historic Mecklenburg County cases. Those attending will get… Read more »