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Friday, 28 September 2012 00:01

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As a community service project, Hough High School junior Maddie Lippy, left, a varsity volleyball player, is leading a fundraising effort to benefit Torie Costa, a senior at Hough who is being treated for a rare cancer. Maddie designed special T-shirts, which she models here along with teammate Morgan Fisher. The shirts will be sold during Hough’s home volleyball match Thursday (Sept. 27) at 5 p.m. against North Mecklenburg High. Proceeds from concession sales at the match also will go towards Torie’s medical fund.

Friday, 21 September 2012 00:01

Now open

Now open

Huntersville Mayor Jill Swain (the one wearing red) celebrates the official start of operations with a ribbon cutting alongside President and CEO of ABB North American Operations Enrique Santacana at the ABB high-tech electric cable manufacturing facility in Commerce Station. Also on hand were other ABB officials and local dignitaries as the first batch of cable was being spooled up.

Friday, 14 September 2012 00:01

Convention encounter

With the plethora of politicians, protestors and potentates in Charlotte last week for the Democratic National Convention (or, in some cases, just to take advantage of a national stage), some celebrities might not have attracted a second look. In this case, though, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Sgt. Christian Wagner, of Huntersville, didn’t necessarily need to see eye-to-eye to come face-to-face.

Friday, 07 September 2012 00:01

The calm after the storm

This week’s surprisingly strong and enduring downpours resemble something more like springtime weather, and despite localized flooding, minor damage and disruptions at the Democratic National Convention, the rain did offer some more serene moments.

Friday, 31 August 2012 00:01

Stop and smell ...

Bailey Martin of Huntersville, a sophomore at Community School of Davidson High School, took this creative photo of her dog, Lucy, checking out the sent of a daisy.

Friday, 24 August 2012 00:01

I don’t know why ...

There once was a spider who lived on the siding. It waited and waited but it did no biting. So it spun a web to catch a fly. That fly will die. Actually, there’s no evidence that this spider in a Huntersville backyard ever caught or ate a fly, but it looked menacing enough to pretty much devour whatever it wanted this past week.

Friday, 10 August 2012 00:01

A product of technology?

Last week’s Citizen featured a whimsical Fellow Citizen, a local extraterrestrial, in honor of the cover story about a Mooresville couple who spent decades researching an alleged UFO crash in Aztec, N.M. In one of his answers, the E.T. said his early attempts at developing teleporter technology resulted in the corgi. Hoover the corgi, who owns Huntersville Transportation planner Bill Coxe, was disengaged when he heard the news. Coxe said Hoover let out a snore when informed of his origins.

Thursday, 02 August 2012 00:01

Torrent topples tree

The Lake Norman area’s stately older trees have been taking a beating from the torrential storms lately, and some, like this ancient oak off Washam Potts Road near the Rainbow Child Care Center in Cornelius, which was ripped from the ground last week.

Friday, 27 July 2012 00:01

Host team

The team representing Carolina Diving Academy is ready to serve as the host team for the AAU Diving National Championships this week at the Huntersville Family Fitness and Aquatics Center.

Friday, 20 July 2012 00:01

Rare find

Exceptionally high surf on the North Carolina coast has recently washed up a few surprises onto the beach, but none more so than this rare, prehistoric megladon shark tooth found by 9-year-old Will Grant of Huntersville on Wrightsville Beach. Megladons were gigantic, shark-like creatures that lived 1.5 million years ago. Will’s parents, Jeff and Myra Grant, showed the tooth to the owner of the beach house they were renting for the week, who confirmed the genus of the incisor and added that, having lived at Wrightsville Beach for 26 years, she had never heard of anyone simply finding a megladon tooth lying in the sand. Beach residents and visitors have been known to go scuba diving or endlessly sift through sand in search of the choppers. Myra Grant reports that the tooth is in mint condition, including the serrated edges.

Friday, 06 July 2012 00:01

Colorful perch

The recent remarkably high heat didn’t keep all creatures indoors as this colorful insect was spotted amid an even more colorful wild passion flower by Hannah Jones in her Cornelius back yard. Jones, a professional photographer, captured the image with a Canon EOS Rebel T3.

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