Midwood News

To help celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of National Small Business Week, a week to support small, locally owned small operations, clothing boutiques all over the area are joining forces in a Charlotte first: a shopping bus tour.

A portion of Central Avenue in Plaza Midwood is closed this week. Next week, a part of downtown Matthews will be inaccessible.

A portion of a major thoroughfare for Plaza Midwood and east Charlotte residents will be closed all of next week, city transportation officials say.

Amanda Sternlieb 11, dressed as "Dorothy" from the Wizard of Oz, carrying her dog Lilly, leads a group of walkers through the Plaza Midwood neighborhood on Sunday April 14,2013, during the Yellow Brick Road Walk to Benefit Charlotte Family Housing.

John Pugh is the owner of House of Swank Clothing Company in Raleigh which specializes in North Carolina themed clothing and accessories.

The new, two-level store replaced one of Harris Teeter's oldest locations, a store on Central Avenue that had been open since the 1930s.

Free Range Brewing of Charlotte has been named N.C. Brewer of the Year at the third annual N.C. Brewers and Music Festival at Rural Hill, according to a news release from the historic site.

The U.S. health-care payment system is unsustainable, Gerald Friedman, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, said Thursday night in Charlotte.