Reader survey + New local charcuterie board business
September 24, 2021
Happy Friday! We are very excited to announce that Untap Indian Land is celebrating its first birthday this month. To recognize the occasion, we want to get to know you!
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FEATURES
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Need a charcuterie board but don't want to put one together? New Indian Land business can help.
Indian Land resident Melanie Riggs turned her hobby of creating beautiful charcuterie boards into a business after encouragement from friends and family. Cute-a-ries is an online business that sells custom charcuterie boards and boxes that are made using fresh, seasonal, and local ingredients.
TOP STORIES
Indian Land has a new mac and cheese — and more — restaurant coming. Here’s where [Marks/Charlotte Observer]. Indian Land has a new mac and cheese — and more — restaurant on the way. A sign is up for the coming I Heart Mac & Cheese and More location at 10092 Charlotte Highway, in the Walmart shopping center on U.S. 521. It’s just south of the state line and Ballantyne. The company website lists the Indian Land spot as coming soon.
THE LIST: Ranking the Charlotte area's most active homebuilders — and top-selling neighborhoods [Shapiro/Charlotte Business Journal]. Waxhaw’s Millbridge neighborhood tops the list of new homes and resales, with 355 single-family home closings, 241 of them newly constructed homes, in 2020. Walnut Creek in Indian Land tops the list of new home sales, with 351 single-family home closings in 2020, 249 of the newly constructed homes. The average sales price of new homes in the community in 2019 was $318,977.
County hires new administrator [Summers/Lancaster News]. The county’s new administrator is returning to the Carolinas from his Midwest hometown.
After meeting behind closed doors for about 20 minutes at the end of marathon four-hour meeting Monday, Sept. 13, members of Lancaster County Council came into open session and unanimously voted to hire Dennis Marstall as the county’s new administrator beginning Oct. 18.
Report card: School district is on par with state [Banks/Carolina Gateway]. Lancaster County School District’s report card, released last week, was on track with state standards or above them, in some cases. However, the reports cards still reflect the toll the coronavirus pandemic took on education, both here and statewide.
Mob boss “Vinny Unions” arrested in Waxhaw [Katersky/WSOCTV]. A 75-year-old mob boss was arrested in Waxhaw and charged with multiple crimes, including racketeering, while several other members of the Colombo crime family were arrested in New York and New Jersey last week, according to the United States Department of Justice.
‘Still being poisoned’: Group protests at S.C. Governor’s mansion over lack of response of toxic air emissions, health impact from New Indy Plant [WBTV]. A group of protesters rallied outside of South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s mansion Sunday morning pushing for a response to the stench coming from the New Indy Plant in South Carolina.
HAPPENINGS
If you are interested in the Murdaugh family murders, check out this new podcast from local radio personality Matt Harris and partner Seton Tucker. The Murdaugh Family Murders: Impact of Influence. The podcast breaks down the timeline of the mysterious deaths surrounding South Carolina’s powerful Murdaugh family.
The Indian Land Fall Festival has been pushed to the spring again this year due to a concern for the health of visitors. The new dates are April 9th and 10th, 2022.
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