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Current Events Huntersville resident Jill Swain, age 61, passed away unexpectedly after a brief illness on April 28. Swain was elected to Huntersville’s town board in 1999, served four two-year terms as a commissioner, and then was elected mayor in 2007. She most recently served as the executive director of the Huntersville Regional Chamber of Commerce. Her obituary noted Jill Swain with son Zack and that while Swain is “remembered as daughter Sydney. a wonderful leader and ultimate connector, she will most be remembered for the positive impact she had on her community and everyone she met. She radiated a joy that would light up any room and she deeply loved her friends and family. She truly made the world a better place.” Swain’s survivors include her son Zack Swain, daughter Sydney Swain, and sister Joelyn Shea. For anyone wanting to make a memorial in Swain’s honor, her family asks that you consider Caterpillar Ministries, Angels and Sparrows, or your local humane society. 20
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Downtown Mooresville names 2021 Main Street Champions The Mooresville Downtown Commission (MDC) has announced that Paul and Kristin Thompson, owners of Broad Street Place, have been named Downtown Mooresville’s 2021 Main Street Champions. The MDC works to stimulate economic development within the context of historic preservation across the state. In 2019, the couple bought Kristin and Paul Thompson. the building where DeLuxe Ice Cream was founded by the Mooresville Ice Cream Company in 1924. For decades the building had been used only for manufacturing, a few upper floor offices, and the long-standing Mooresville Ice Cream Parlor. The rest of the building was vacant. The Thompsons renovated almost all of the 21,000 square feet, creating six new retail spaces plus eight new upper floor apartments, bringing not only new vitality to Broad Street, but adding crucially needed residential spaces in downtown. Currently, all the retail spaces are leased to local, female entrepreneurs who
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Former Huntersville mayor Jill Swain remembered by community
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