A school approved in 2007 and a park budgeted for the following year are now on their way to Steele Creek.

The semi-annual Queen’s Feast: Charlotte Restaurant Week returns for its 10th showing Jan. 18-27 featuring a record 112 participating restaurants in six counties.

Beatriz Adrianna Guevara of the Charlotte (N.C.) Mecklenburg Library was named as one of 10 librarians recognized for service to their communities, schools and campuses as winners of the Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award.

The Carolinas’ Carrousel Parade, which celebrated its 65th anniversary this year, has been included in US News & World Report’s 2012 list of America’s Best Thanksgiving Day Parades.

A seepage of coal ash into Lake Wylie and Mountain Island Lake raised concern for an environmental group but not to the utility in charge of them.

Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation plans to add public swimming access at Ramsey Creek Park on Lake Norman.

Riversweep on Lake Wylie continues to set records.

An open house is coming soon for the Steele Creek police station at N.C. 49 and Westinghouse Boulevard.

Robby Byrum is going fishing.

Possible needs including the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte were at the heart of prep runs last week for Carolinas MED-1, a virtual hospital on wheels.