MOORESVILLE – United Way of Central Carolinas’ has announced 2013-14 funding allocations for 16 nonprofit agency partners in the Lake Norman area. The Ada Jenkins Center, a regional community services center in Davidson, got just over $232,000, up slightly from this year. Mooresville Area Christian Mission received nearly $99,000 and other funding went to a wide range of agencies, from the Red Cross to Safe Alliance. Read the full story

Cornelius-Lemley Fire and Rescue responded to 44 calls over the past week, including an SUV that burned up on I-77, a fatal house fire in Davidson, a kitchen fire at Peninsula China Bistro, and a large outside fire. Firefighters also responded to 8 fire alarms and one call for carbon monoxide in a home. More information about these and others below, along with a tally of this week’s medical calls. Read the full story

A Toyota SUV caught fire and burned up on I-77 near Mile 29 after midnight Monday. Cornelius-Lemley Fire and Rescue responded to a total of 48 calls over the past week, including a vehicle fire, two accidents where pedestrians were struck, one patient with a gunshot wound outside a West Catawba Avenue night club, four motor vehicle accidents, and two calls for smoke investigations. More information about these and others below, along with a tally of this week’s medical calls. Read the full story

E3D organizer Pat Millen (fifth from left) received a check for $10,320 from Peninsula Community Foundation chair Todd Wiebusch. With them are others associated with both End Davidson’s Digital Divide and the foundation.

The Lake Norman community is responding to the technology challenge issued earlier this year by Davidson-based nonprofit E3D, which wants to put computers in the hands local schoolkids who lack them. Organizer Pat Millen says help is coming in big and small ways – from donors as large as the Peninsula Community Foundation to events like the Biggest Lemonade Stand Day Ever planned in Davidson Saturday.

The Peninsula Community Foundation recently presented E3D with a check for $10,320 to help fund the group’s goal of helping close the digital gap among families in local schools. Working with local social service and school leaders, E3D is identifying students at public schools in Cornelius and Davidson who lack computers and internet connections.

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The Lake Norman Regional Transportation Commission will hold its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 6:30pm at the Cornelius Town Hall, with a focus on transportation planning in the NC 73 corridor through the region. Read the full story

Temple Kol Tikvah has bought and renovated the former Calvary Presbyterian Church on South Street. (David Boraks/CorneliusNews.net)

DAVIDSON – A few years ago over coffee in downtown Davidson, I talked to Rabbi Michael Shields about the growth of his congregation and it search for a permanent home. He told me that Davidson seemed a natural location for Lake Norman’s Jewish community to put down permanent roots. Much has happened since then, including a merger of the local Reform and Conservative Congregations, and now the renamed Temple Kol Tikvah of Lake Norman has that long-dreamed of home. This Sunday, April 14, the congregation will dedicate the new synagogue at 605 South St. – the first permanent synagogue between Charlotte and Statesville. Read the full story

Lake Norman-area residents and elected officials will have chance to share their views on transportation and growth during a pair of regional meetings next week in Mooresville. On Tuesday, the 14-county CONNECT Our Future” consortium will host an open house to discuss growth in the coming decades. Then on Thursday, the Lake Norman Regional Transportation Commission invites elected and appointed officials as well as residents to a transportation summit, looking at the policy effects of growth on the transportation system. Read the full story

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Davidson native and musician Jake Troth got a moment in the spotlight Wednesday, Jan. 2, when he performed live on CBS’s “Late Night With David Letterman” alongside rapper Big Boi. They performed “Apple of My Eye,” a hit-in-the-making Mr. Troth co-wrote with Big Boi, of Outkast fame.

Jake Troth sings with Big Boi on “Late Night with David Letterman.”

The tune comes off Big Bio’s recently released album “Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors,” available on iTunes.

In a Facebook post Wednesday afternoon he described the gig on “Letterman” as his first TV appearance.

Mr. Troth, 24, is making a name for himself well beyond his home town, both behind the scenes as a ghostwriter and producer and for his own music.

He studied fashion design at Savannah College of Art and Design, but has long been into music. He’s been profiled as a “GreyGoose Rising Icon,” where he’s noted for mixing “rock, folk and Broadway-inspired tunes into his own songwriting and performances.” His song “Material Things” was the theme song for the VH1 show “House of Consignment,” and his music has been featured on the VH1 show “Mob Wives,” ABC Family’ s “Jane by Design,” and MTV’s “TeenWolf” and “Underemployed.”

Can’t see the video? Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BjynvHflq4