BIG CHANGES ON THE WAY FOR 2014 ... NASCAR wants its audience back! That was the overarching message Thursday as Brian France, the motorsports league’s chairman and CEO, outlined a revamped championship format aimed at getting drivers out of their points collecting comfort zones and gambling mor
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01/31/2014
Recently J.R. Sweezy's Mooresville High School Football Coach - Barclay Marsh had a chance to reflect on his four years as a MHS Varsity Player. Marsh was Mooresville’s head coach during all those years, and it comes as no surprise to him that Sweezy has quickly reached the pinnacle of his prof
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01/30/2014
AGING BOOMERS CHANGING REAL ESTATE ... The aging of the nation’s Baby Boomer population could reshape the United States’ residential real estate market and economy in the coming years. As members of this demographic get older, many will move out of the houses where they raised families and down
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01/29/2014
Charlotte-area home prices rose 8.7 percent in November from a year ago, as the region continued its trend of strong annual appreciation, according to figures released Tuesday. All 20 cities tracked by the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller index recorded annual gains. Nationally, prices rose 13.7 pe
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01/28/2014
It's time for the 42nd Annual "Mid Atlantic Boat Show" It's THE PLACE to get you and your family ready for the 2014 Boating Season! Since 1973 the Mid-Atlantic Boat Show has been the "unofficial" start of the boating season. Each year the region's premier marine dealers display hundreds of the fi
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01/27/2014
HELPFUL TIPS IN FREEZING WEATHER! • Keep your home heated to a minimum of 65 degrees to keep the inside walls from freezing. • Know where your main water shutoff is located within your home in case a pipe would burst due to freezing. • Turn on Hot AND Cold faucets to a "slow drip" AND open ca
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01/25/2014
More than 5 million existing homes were sold in 2013, the best year since the boom times of 2006, when 6.5 million were sold. According to the National Association of Realtors, which reported that single-family homes, town homes, condominiums and co-ops sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate o
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01/23/2014
Mooresville Pactiv Plant Adding 50 New Jobs 2nd Year in a Row Pactiv will add 50 jobs to its food-service packaging plant in Mooresville as it spends $16 million to bring in new production equipment at the site. It’s the second expansion for the 252 employee facility in a year. Pactiv added 50 jo
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01/23/2014
A partnership between Our Towns Habitat for Humanity and the Town of Mooresville is fueling the construction of an entire neighborhood of energy-efficient homes in the Burke Dale subdivision. It'll start with building four homes by the end of August, according to Deputy Town Manager Ryan Rase. Th
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01/22/2014
Patience seems to have paid off for those who’ve postponed putting their homes on the market until this year, real estate analysts say. They stand to pocket the kind of profits not seen since the housing boom. Prices surged more than 10% in many markets last year, bidding wars are once again comm
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01/21/2014
