I’d just started working at Charlotte magazine in late 2018 when my editor asked if I wanted to lead our food and drink coverage. Getting paid to eat at trendy restaurants and write about it is the stuff dream jobs are made of. But I hesitated to say yes. I was afraid I would get
Read MoreJennifer Price remembers her first day working on a construction site, as anyone remembers the day a goal becomes reality. Price spent her childhood learning to build from her dad, a subcontractor who installed ATMs and bank vaults and brought her to job sites. The two worked together on home renovation projects. Price studied electrical
Read MorePhotographs by Rusty Williams Hair and makeup by Heather Hawkins Wardrobe styled by Chantal DePraeter Angie Harmon won Seventeen’s modeling contest at age 15 and rose to fame on TV shows like Baywatch Nights and Law & Order. The Texas native went on to star in a number of other projects that filmed on the
Read MoreLast year brought a harrowing anniversary: It had been 75 years since the Partition of 1947—a violent, historic act that split Colonial India into Pakistan and India. This is the backdrop of the book The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani, which follows the event through the eyes of 12-year-old Nisha. Half-Muslim, half-Hindu, Nisha struggles to
Read MoreMargo Bartsch, College Essay Coach Imagine a Zoom screen with four video boxes: the employee, two vice presidents and a human resource officer. “Your department is being eliminated,” announces the current vice president to the employee. “You can either be part of the layoffs or move to my new department, “explains the other vice president.
Read MoreScooter MacMillan, Editor The Champlain Valley Union High boys basketball team will take a dominating regular season performance into the playoffs.With two games remaining — tonight (Thursday, Feb. 23) against visiting South Burlington and Saturday, Feb. 25, at Rice — the boys are 17-1 and in first place. CVU 61, Burlington 40On Monday, Feb. 20,
Read MoreNicole Conley, Recreation Director Martial artsMost children and teens will receive some benefit from Villari’s martial arts after training for just a few short months, but the real benefit comes from long-term training. It helps with confidence, focus, health, work ethic and attitude. WednesdaysSession 6: March 22-April 19Session 7: May 03-May 31Time: 1:40-2:50 p.m.Cost per
Read MoreRebecca Foster and Mike Yantachka, Contributors The Charlotte Energy Committee is excited to announce a plan to directly help folks take advantage of opportunities to go solar, join the clean energy revolution and lower their utility bills. Long before financial opportunities were expanded by passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act
Read MoreBradley Carleton, Contributor As a young man stuggling to find my identity in high school, which never seemed to mesh with my peers, I recognized that, as most young people do, I was “different.” Truth is, we are all different. But people, young and old, seem to have this insatiable need to build classes and
Read MoreLinda Hamilton, Contributor In two recent issues of The Charlotte News, Maj Eisinger and I wrote articles about the problem of food insecurity on behalf of Charlotte Food Shelf and Charlotte Grange respectively, because it is a heartbreaking problem in our community which goes mostly unnoticed. Why is that? Is it so hard to imagine
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