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The holidays are getting close! 🎁✨ Have you checked out The Ledger Store? We’ve got gifts for every Charlottean — cozy s...
11/26/2025

The holidays are getting close! 🎁✨ Have you checked out The Ledger Store? We’ve got gifts for every Charlottean — cozy sweatshirts, mugs, stickers and so much more. Shop now at the link in our bio!

Two Charlotte women — ages 102 and 105 — are proving that purpose, resilience and a little chutzpah can carry you a very...
11/25/2025

Two Charlotte women — ages 102 and 105 — are proving that purpose, resilience and a little chutzpah can carry you a very long way.

Meet Elly Rubin and Nita Moss: both live independently, both still drive, both stay active and both credit their long lives to staying engaged and embracing joy wherever they can find it.

Read the full story at the link in bio.

📸 Photos by Ken Garfield

Charlotte FC has extended general manager Zoran Krneta — the club’s first-ever hire and longest-tenured employee — on a ...
11/24/2025

Charlotte FC has extended general manager Zoran Krneta — the club’s first-ever hire and longest-tenured employee — on a new multi-year deal. After early challenges, he’s helped lead record wins, major signings like Dean Smith and Wilfred Zaha, and the club’s most lucrative player sales to date.

Read the full story by Carroll Walton at the link in bio

📸 Photo by Charlotte FC

11/22/2025

Reporters’ Roundtable: Should I-77 go underground?

Ledger reporters Lindsey Banks, Ashley Fahey and Tony Mecia break down the Charlotte news of the week.

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You can watch the full Roundtable at the link in our bio.

11/21/2025

Reporters’ Roundtable: Will Transit Trigger a Land Rush?

Ledger reporters Lindsey Banks, Ashley Fahey and Tony Mecia break down the Charlotte news of the week.

Want to join the conversation live? Subscribe to The Charlotte Ledger to get access to our live Roundtable.

You can watch the full Roundtable at the link in our bio.

11/21/2025

It’s probably going to be days or weeks before customers fully return to east Charlotte businesses after this week’s Border Patrol arrests, residents say.

More than half of the businesses surveyed by said they were closed and unsure when they would reopen.

Full coverage in The Charlotte Ledger newsletter.

11/20/2025

Charlotte has felt different this week — and it’s traced back to increased Border Patrol activity across the city.

More than 200 people have been arrested since Saturday, schools and nonprofits are feeling the impact, and businesses are seeing disruptions.

Here’s what we know so far.

Even with the shutdown over, food pantries say they’re far from out of the woods.Keona is one of 140,000 county resident...
11/18/2025

Even with the shutdown over, food pantries say they’re far from out of the woods.

Keona is one of 140,000 county residents who lost SNAP earlier this month. She’s stocking up at Nourish Up to get her family through the month.

📸Photo by Lindsey Banks/The Charlotte Ledger

Read the full story at the link in bio

➡️ Want to donate to Nourish Up? Drop off food at a food drive, host your own drive (make sure to call and arrange a time to drop off), donate or volunteer. Nourish Up told The Ledger they especially need volunteer drivers to deliver groceries.

A surge in federal immigration enforcement swept through Charlotte this weekend — dozens arrested, protests erupting and...
11/17/2025

A surge in federal immigration enforcement swept through Charlotte this weekend — dozens arrested, protests erupting and businesses closing out of fear. With “Operation Charlotte’s Web” underway, here’s what we know so far — and what still isn’t clear.

Full breakdown at the link in bio.

📸 Photos via Gregory Bovino on X

🏡 The Sharon at SouthPark is introducing Belmore — the only planned new-construction 60+ senior living community in Sout...
11/14/2025

🏡 The Sharon at SouthPark is introducing Belmore — the only planned new-construction 60+ senior living community in SouthPark, featuring 64 independent living apartments from 1,700–2,600 sq. ft.

Join an upcoming information session on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at the Renaissance Charlotte SouthPark Hotel (10 a.m. or 1:30 p.m.), or attend the virtual sessions on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Each in-person session is limited to 40 people.

🔗 Reserve your spot at the link in bio.

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The Charlotte Ledger is a digital publication offering original news and insights. Run by two former Charlotte Observer reporters, it is an e-newsletter that comes out four mornings a week. Founded in March 2019. Find out more: https://charlotteledger.substack.com/