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County assessors say there are discrepancies on where Mecklenburg County ends and Union County begins in some neighborhoods.

STALLINGS, N.C. — County leaders are looking into discrepancies that they say are leading to confusion on where Mecklenburg Countyends and Union Countybegins in some areas.

Changes to the boundary lines could lead to about 300 properties having to switch to a different county, according to the Mecklenburg County assessor. The change would affect a household's school district, voting precinct, property taxes, and emergency services.

“Common sense tells me it doesn’t make any sense,” Stallings Mayor Wyatt Dunn told WCNC Charlotte.

Dunn lives on Shannamara Drive. His neighborhood is divided by the Mecklenburg and Union County line. He claimed that the boundary issue was already resolved between Mint Hill, Stallings, and the counties when it was brought up in 2001.

“The people in Union County want to stay in Union County," the mayor said. "I don’t know about the Mecklenburg County folks, but we’re going to fight this and there’s no reason to change the line.”

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Dunn worried that the change would mean he and his neighbors would be absorbed by Mecklenburg County.

His neighbor Tish Brown lives on the Mecklenburg County side of the street. Brown said if the line goes the other way to favor Union County, she wouldn’t mind.

“My taxes would go down so that would be okay,” Brown added.

It’s unclear how the line will be redrawn if the counties choose to take up the issue.

Mecklenburg County Assessor Ken Joyner told WCNC Charlotte that both counties and the state are still using slightly different boundaries – meaning the discrepancies weren’t resolved in 2001.

Joyner said he is, "trying to figure out what is the best course of action for our county, Union County to do the same process, and try to determine if we agree with the state line or if we want to take a different course of action.”

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When asked why this issue has resurfaced, Joyner said, “I don’t think either county is trying to get more tax money or get more houses or anything like that, it's just trying to resolve an uncertain boundary so that 20 years from now it won't come back up again.”

Town and county leaders are looping in state officials for help and are working to create a map that will show the lines that are up for question and which properties are affected.

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***The following is a release from the Pack of Wolves NIL Collective***

Raleigh, NC - Pack of Wolves, LLC, a community of passionate fans, alumni and supporters of NC State University Athletics, has named longtime university supporter and retired BB&T Capital Markets (now Truist Securities) senior banker Charlie Stallings as its first board chairman to advise the organization’s management team as well as facilitate its founding board to fulfill its mission.

Stallings returns from a brief retirement after serving in sales and management for BB&T Capital Markets (now Truist) to serve at the helm of the newly formed board. The Pack of Wolves executive board also includes Haze Lancaster, Jarrett Disbrow, and Scott Wood—among others. The new board will establish solid footing for the NIL collective which offers memberships for both individual and businesses to assist student-athletes in maximizing their name, image and likeness value, creating lasting relationships, and making a positive impact in the community.

"We are grateful that Charlie has agreed to bring his experience and passion to the Pack of Wolves collective,” shares Boo Corrigan, NC State Director of Athletics. “I’m looking forward to seeing the continued growth of the Pack of Wolves under his leadership.”

This is familiar territory for Stallings, who was selected as Poole College of Management’s Distinguished Alumni Award recipient in 2014 and most recently retired as chair of the NC State Foundation board. He also served as a founding member of the NC State Investment board.

“In the ever-changing world of college athletics, you must have a successful NIL program to attract and retain top student-athletes,” notes Stallings. “Wolfpack Nation is stepping up to make this happen. We know this is a world-class institution and we’re developing a NIL program that reflects that mission.”

Stallings boasts a long-running history of fulfilling servant-leadership roles at his alma mater. During his undergraduate tenure at NC State, Stallings was named Sigma Alpha Epsilon president in 1976, Brother of the Year in 1977, and chaired the Muscular Dystrophy Dance Marathon in 1977. His volunteerism has often extended beyond campus, as well, including stints with The Richmond Ballet Board of Trustees, SCAN (Greater Richmond Stop Child Abuse Now) board—which he helped launch and chaired, North Carolina State Club of Richmond, 1708 Gallery, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

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Pack of Wolves is a community of passionate fans, alumni and supporters of NC State University Wolfpack Athletics. We're committed to empowering NC State student-athletes to maximize their personal brand value through their name, image and likeness (NIL) while creating meaningful and lasting connections with NC State supporters. Our mission is to help our student-athletes maximize their NIL value while making a positive impact in the community. We connect student-athletes with members and sponsors, and help them navigate and secure meaningful NIL collaborations and lasting relationships. For more information, please go to www.packofwolvesnil.com.

A mixed-use development of apartments, homes, and commercial space could be coming to Idlewild Road if approved by town council.

MATTHEWS, N.C. — Matthews residents are once again hoping to put a stop to a large development that could be built on Idlewild Road.

In 2010, residents along Idlewild Road rallied against plans for a town home and single-family home community off Stallings Road. The proposal was then denied by town council.

Now, former Matthews Mayor and Commissioner Kress Query is fighting the same battle but with a bigger project.

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"That first one didn’t have any apartments in it," Query recalled about the 2010 proposal. "And this one has got, I think, three buildings of apartments."

Pappas Properties has submitted a proposal to build apartments, town homes, houses and commercial space on the Stallings Road lot.

HOA president of the nearby Windrow Estates neighborhood, David Gaertner, is against the plan too.

"It’s out of place, it’s overwhelming and it’s not conducive to the residents that are already here,” Gaertner said.

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He said about 200 nearby residents have signed his petition for town council to deny the plan.

A traffic report says from 2016-2020 there were 141 car accidents on Idlewild Road near the proposed community. Gaertner worries the development will up that number and worsen traffic.

"We don’t have the infrastructure,” Gaertner said.

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The Town of Matthews says in its 2021 Eastern Gateway plan that the area has room for growth and “intense interest” from developers.

Staff made the plan last year after surveying how residents would want the land developed. The plan says about 68 residents showed support for mixed-use development but others are hoping it stays residential.

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Matthews Town Council will hold a public hearing and presentation on the plans at the Nov. 14 commissioners' meeting.

U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Carl Roush was homeless last year. Now, he and his family have a place to call their own.

STALLINGS, N.C. — Christmas came early for one North Carolina veteran and his family, as the Stallings community thanked him for his sacrifices in a life-changing way.

U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Carl Roush is no stranger to fighting. The Purple Heart recipient joined the military back in 2002 and has been deployed twice. His service left him with severe post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.

"Sometimes I struggle just to get out of bed in the mornings," Roush said.

But this time last year, Roush was faced with another fight -- keeping a roof over his family's head.

"We had literally just decorated for Christmas," Roush said. "Just got our Christmas tree, which I had just threw out because it was dry and falling apart."

Roush and his family faced a difficult decision as their home was filled with mold, which forced them to move out.

"It was so overwhelming last year -- last year at this exact time," Roush said. "Our friends who lived down in Florida made us drive down and spend Christmas with them."

So after devoting his life to serving his country, Roush's community wanted to serve him.

Mayor Wyatt Dunn of Stallings declared Wednesday as a special day in Roush's honor.

"I, Wyatt Dunn, the Mayor of the Town of Stallings, do hereby proclaim Wednesday, December 15th 2021 as U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Carl Roush Day, and I'm honored to officially welcome U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Carl Roush and his family to the town of Stallings, " Dunn said. "Welcome."

The welcome came along with the keys to a newly built, mortgage-free home.

It was built in partnership with a national homebuilder, PulteGroup's 'Built to Honor' program.

"Just being able to do something so selfless for someone that has acted selfless his entire life, it's something that just really warms your heart", Steve Francis, division president for PulteGroup in Charlotte, said.

Roush said it's especially impactful because it will allow him to watch his daughter grow in a home that is their own.

"It means everything, like all of our first memories with her, have been on the hotel floor or at a friend's house," Roush said, referring to his child. "So she actually gets to have a home now."

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Roush said he'll always cherish the life-changing Christmas gift that came out of Wednesday's dedication ceremony -- especially because of the impact it will have on his daughter.

"It's her world and it's beyond my world," he said. "So that's it. It's everything."

MATTHEWS, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Atrium Health is opening its first hospital in the Charlotte region in more than 30 years.

The new hospital, Atrium Health Union West, located off I-485 and Stallings Road in Matthews, has a new emergency room, ICU, and surgical center.

The hospital is fully staffed, but some employees are coming to work at the new facility from other area Atrium locations, so that will leave openings at those facilities once the new hospital opens on Wednesday.

“There is an opportunity to care for a lot of different patients from a vast, I’d say, territory to actually cover,” said Seth Goldwire, the Vice President, and Facility Executive at Atrium Health Union West.

The new hospital expects to pull patients from nearby Indian Trail, Stallings, and even as far away as Uptown, Pineville, and Cabarrus.

“If this was a real estate class, I would lead off with location, location, location, so that’s something that is absolutely an advantage for where we are physically right now,” said Goldwire.

Officials say being more centrally located than the Monroe hospital will help relieve the strain on other hospitals in the Charlotte region.

“So in a lot of ways we’ll be able to take off some of the pressure our other acute care facilities are starting to see,” said Goldwire.

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We also told you how the COVID surge and decrease in staffing was so bad at Atrium Health Pineville that just weeks ago, federal workers had to come in to help.

“What we’ve been able to do is create opportunities to share teammates where it makes sense for the service liner. From a location standpoint, that was an advantage and also recruiting our primary teammates, and those are the things we leaned hard into to make sure all of our shifts were covered,” said Goldwire.

The new hospital will have more than 200 workers. They have an emergency room, a helipad, medical and surgical care, maternity and women’s care, and the largest operating rooms in the Atrium Health system.

“When you think about just taking some of the pressure off of the other facilities, we wanted to reach out to where the communities were,” said Goldwire.

Crews broke ground on the hospital right before the pandemic hit in January 2020. Some of the workers will be splitting their time between the new hospital location and the hospital in Monroe, Atrium Health Union.