Kids in the Overlook neighborhood spent Saturday, Jan. 30 playing in the snow and searching for the best sledding hills.
Mountain Island
The paper that hugs the lake
As the Mountain Island Weekly has grown in the past year, we’ve brought you stories about new economic development, the people who are proud to call this area home and issues affecting Mountain Island Lake’s health.
Most of that reporting has come from the Mecklenburg shore.
Greenway on track for 2011 construction start
Mount Holly’s long-planned riverside greenway will begin construction next year, if all goes well.
The Mount Holly Riverwalk, a scenic 13-mile route along the Catawba River between the Stowe YMCA and Mountain Island Lake, has been in the works for more than five years.
Marine challenge to raise funds for fallen soldier
A local non-profit supporting U.S. Marines and their families is inviting extreme exercise enthusiasts to see if they’ve got what it takes to endure a military physical fitness test, while raising money for the family of Lance Cpl. Noah M. Pier.
Lake Norman Charter student relishes role in movie
Bria Lindsey, 17, who lives in the Mountain Island area, celebrated the opening of her first film with 15 to 20 of her family and friends Friday, Feb. 19, at Starlight Stadium 14 in Charlotte.
Local water quality officials want review of water data
Charlotte-Mecklenburg water quality officials are asking the state to review water samples that landed Mountain Island Lake on a draft list of impaired waterways.
The N.C. Division of Water Quality put the lake on its 2010 Impaired Waters draft list because of elevated acidity levels.
Briefs
The Lake Norman Teen Council is sponsoring an Appalachian Ski Mountain trip, supported by the parks and recreation departments of Huntersville, Davidson and Cornelius.
The Feb. 15 trip will...
CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is asking for entries for the ninth annual Five Ventures Business Plan Competition.
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Education
Regardless of what financial scenario plays out, budget cuts and layoffs loom for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Under the best case presented to Board of Education members Feb. 17, CMS would cut...
CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ student-assignment lottery application closes Monday, Feb. 8. The online lottery will remain open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day...
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has announced a hiring freeze on all open non-instructional positions.
Superintendent Peter Gorman informed district employees in an e-mail Wednesday, Jan. 27...
Sports
If Alexis Hicks had it her way, she wouldn’t be the focal point of the Victory Christian Center girls basketball team.
In fact, if Hicks really had her druthers, she’d go back...
Early in the 2009 football season, Tom Knotts thought it might be time to leave Independence High School – and North Carolina, for that matter.
He had conversations with his financial...
The Johnson C. Smith University women’s basketball team is ranked 22nd in this week’s USA Today/ESPN Division II Top 25 poll.
JCSU moved up two spots from last week’s No. 24 ranking....
