Regional News

State highway officials have chosen an alternate route for the planned straightening of Pitts School Road, scrapping their original choice, which would have split the more-than-century-old Barbee Farms.

Huntersville police officers made a special delivery Thursday to the Angels and Sparrows Soup Kitchen.

Lincoln County Habitat for Humanity will host Elvis Presley impersonator Ryan Pelton in "It's Elvis: A Holiday Tribute to the King!" at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the James W. Warren Citizens Center, 115 W. Main St., Lincolnton.

Concord

Owners Jim and Renee Mitchell feature made-from-scratch pizzas and other homemade specialties at The Twisted Tomato eatery they opened in September on N C. 150 West.

About a month ago, I heard a startling bit of news: John Bigelow was planning to retire as pastor at St. James Reformed Church in Mount Pleasant and leave town.

Just last week I was in my apron, messing up my kitchen for a Thai dish I had longed for weeks to prepare.

Last weekend a cast of 34 middle-school students stormed the stage of the Northwest School of the Arts in a colorful production of "Seussical Junior."

Calvary Church

When the Teen Advisory Board of the Mooresville Public Library meets in the Selma Burke Community Room, their ideas crackle like electricity.