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Sign up! * I understand and agree that registration on or use of this site constitutes agreement to its user agreement and privacy policy. Related to this story Most Popular AMC Concord Mills adds NC's first ScreenX auditorium AMC Concord Mills gets North Carolina's first 270-degree ScreenX theater. Atrium Health agrees to $1.8 million settlement in patient data case "There is no evidence any information that may have been shared with these third parties has been misused in any way." Friday Five: Merry Christmas - Downtown Concord celebrates Saturday Mark Plemmons' Friday Five includes: Christmas in July in Concord, the Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society seeking descendants of Mont Amoena … Progress continues on Concord Parks & Rec Bond projects Caldwell Park to reopen soon, and groundbreaking Thursday at David Phillips Park. Cabarrus players hard at work getting better in the summer In the summer, Cabarrus players and athletes work to get better.
AMC Concord Mills adds NC's first ScreenX auditorium AMC Concord Mills gets North Carolina's first 270-degree ScreenX theater.
Atrium Health agrees to $1.8 million settlement in patient data case "There is no evidence any information that may have been shared with these third parties has been misused in any way."
Friday Five: Merry Christmas - Downtown Concord celebrates Saturday Mark Plemmons' Friday Five includes: Christmas in July in Concord, the Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society seeking descendants of Mont Amoena …
Progress continues on Concord Parks & Rec Bond projects Caldwell Park to reopen soon, and groundbreaking Thursday at David Phillips Park.
Cabarrus players hard at work getting better in the summer In the summer, Cabarrus players and athletes work to get better.