Personal trainer Julie Sawyer, owner of Tuff Girl Bootcamps and “Get Fit” columnist for Lake Wylie Pilot, is offering free grocery store tours once a month to educate shoppers about how to make healthier food choices.
World champion dancer and "Dancing With the Stars" celebrity Louis Van Amstel will be at Charlotte's Queen City Ballroom Tuesday and Wednesday to debut “LaBlast,” a partner-free dance fitness program combining elements from several different dance forms.
A new complex of affordable apartments for seniors should be full within a few months of opening.Steele Creek Senior Apartments opened in November with 120 units.
Bellamy Homes needs business partners and donations of money and construction supplies to change the life of a deserving family for the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” project.
One of the longest-standing figures of the Charlotte Symphony has retired from the orchestra, but his legacy will remain.
He plucked a violin off a stranger’s wall for a symphony performance, and nobody noticed. Billy Graham endowed her chair. Whatever the German word for ordinary is, the Roth duo isn’t it.
The Carolina Thread Trail Governing Board approved trail grant applications from 13 community projects along The Thread totaling $689,240. Trail implementation grants are awarded by the board to provide catalytic funding to communities to assist with trail corridor design, land acquisition and construction.
Tom Okel, a former Bank of America executive, has been named the new field director of the Catawba Land Conservancy, effective Oct. 3.
The fall 2011 issue of Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation’s Get Going Guide is now available online at parkandrec.com. This issue features information on programs occurring in September, October and November, as well as major upcoming events such as the groundbreaking of Romare Bearden park in uptown Charlotte (Sept. 2) and Festival in the Park in Freedom Park (Sept. 23-25).
Baggage fees and other charges introduced since 2008 are here for the long haul, but they leave airlines poised to weather economic storms without another wave of bankruptcies, US Airways CEO Doug Parker told the Observer on Tuesday.