Today - June 30th - is officially the sixth anniversary of Social Media Day!Social Media has completely redefined how we communicate with one another, receive our news, interact with friends, family and people in our communities and even former neighbors, co-workers and people we went to school w
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06/30/2015
The summer installment of Queen’s Feast: Charlotte Restaurant Week will run July 17 through July 26.A total of 124 restaurants in the Charlotte area will offer prix fixe menus of three courses or more. In general, meals are priced at $30, though for the first time a $35 price tier has been added.
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06/29/2015
Next weekend, the Fourth of July FUN continues with a celebration at Lowe’s YMCA on Friday, July 3. The event, which is hosted by WSOC radio and the nonprofit Bella Love, will feature live performances by three bands, as well as vendors, games for children and food.The evening ends with a firewor
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06/28/2015
Hop in the saddle, wrangle those handlebars and start peddling, little buckaroo!The sixth annual Bike Safety Rodeo kicks off at 9 a.m. on July 4 at Birkdale Village.The rodeo precedes Huntersville’s Fourth of July celebration, scheduled at 10 a.m. in the village.The bike event has drawn up to 130
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06/28/2015
Del Webb communities is building its second “active adult” neighborhood in the Charlotte area.Carolina Orchards will open in the spring of 2016 on land formerly owned by the Close family adjacent to the Springfield community in Fort Mill.The developer is planning 722 single-family homes on about
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06/27/2015
A greater share of U.S. millennials say they’re likely to buy a home this year, adding to evidence that first-time buyers are finally entering the real estate market and fueling a jump in sales.A Realtor.com survey of site visitors taken in mid-June showed that about 65 percent of respondents bet
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06/25/2015
A Texas company that develops small, all-composite aircraft plans to invest $6 million in its research-and-development plant in Mooresville and hire an additional 58 people. The Mooresville-South Iredell Economic Development Corporation said Wednesday that Windecker Aircraft, Inc. of Austin, Tex
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06/24/2015
Since the epic housing boom and bust of the last decade, nearly 8 million borrowers have lost their homes to foreclosure. Now, with credit repaired, some of them are finally returning to home ownership. The numbers are small to start, but so-called boomerang buyers could become a significant driv
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06/23/2015
Like most area golfers, Mooresville’s Steve Young is eager to see the progress being made during the year-long, $5 million rebuilding of Mooresville Municipal Golf Course.He doesn’t he have to look too far to find it.“I’m just curious about what all has been done, what’s going on now, and what el
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06/22/2015
North Carolina is the recipient of Area Development magazine's 2015 Silver Shovel award for economic-development effectiveness. Locally, a project on the list of 10 in North Carolina that factored into the award was Sealed Air Corp.'s $68.4 million investment to bring its headquarters and close t
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06/21/2015
