The 10th annual Blumenthal Performing Arts High School Musical Theater Awards culminated Sunday, May 21, at a gala award celebration where winners in 15 categories were announced and nominees for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Wells Fargo Best Musical performed live on stage at the Belk Theat…

KANNAPOLIS — Those who gave all were remembered and their families recognized in the annual Memorial Day Ceremony in Kannapolis at Veterans Park

The Wells Fargo Foundation has awarded $77,000 in grants to Habitat Cabarrus for the third year in a row for a total of $237,000 in support of decent and affordable homes in Cabarrus County. Habitat Cabarrus is one of more than 230 Habitat for Humanity affiliates awarded grant funding nation…

MOUNT PLEASANT — In 1945, John Albert Hayden Lingle of the U.S. Army Air Corps was taken as a prisoner of war after his B-24, the “Jolly Duck” crash landed on a farm in Holland. After a 506-mile forced march from the western coast of the Netherlands to southern Bavaria, he arrived at Stalag …

CONCORD — Rowan-Cabarrus Community College has expanded its welding program to its south campus with a large lab space equipped to offer hands-on instruction to students in Cabarrus County. The college’s south campus is at 1531 Trinity Church Road in Concord.

CONCORD — On Tuesday, May 23, The Chamber, Leading Business in Cabarrus, hosted Leadership Cabarrus Graduation and Homecoming, featuring the graduation of the Class of 2023’s 32 members.

CONCORD — The Cabarrus County Convention & Visitors Bureau welcomes April Sloop as social media manager. In this role, Sloop supports the CVB’s marketing department by managing the Bureau’s social media channels and driving digital marketing programs.

CONCORD — City Manager Lloyd Payne presented the recommended Fiscal Year 2023-24 budget to the mayor and city council Friday. As one of North Carolina’s largest and fastest growing cities, the recommended budget positions the city to responsibly handle this growth.

There was no sound other than the soft thumping of raindrops on the windshield of the rental car I had pulled off the round on Highway 1 just north of Palmer, Alaska. The tears would no longer wait for my failing effort to process a conversation that simply could not be processed. My wife an…

Here upcoming community events around Cabarrus County.

CONCORD — Children in the Carolinas have had a friend in Charlotte Motor Speedway for more than four decades.

CONCORD — Cabarrus County and the local judicial community will commemorate the opening of the new 250,000-square-foot Courthouse with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and tour.

For the fifth time in 228 years, this community has built a new courthouse — a space to resolve disputes and provide justice.

The FBI has increased the rewards offered to capture individuals on the “Ten Most Wanted Fugitive” list to $250,000. Alejandro “Alex” Castillo was added to the list in October 2017.

CHARLOTTE — To better understand the direction North Carolina’s economy will take for the remainder of the year, watch closely what steps the Federal Reserve takes next month, said John Connaughton, professor of financial economics for UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business.

KANNAPOLIS — Six inductees will comprise the 2023 class scheduled to be enshrined during the annual induction ceremony this fall. The induction ceremony will take place on Thursday, Oct. 19, in Mooresville.

Kannapolis offices closed, parks open

Greetings from North Myrtle Beach. The news never stops, especially in these days of small staffs, so I am working remotely and squeezing in some vacation time between the news.

Here upcoming community events around Cabarrus County.

MT. PLEASANT — On Memorial Day, Monday, May 29, the Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society will participate in Taps Across America, The National Moment of Remembrance recognizing those who died in military service to the United States.