🍝 Riccio's Italian, a family-run Italian restaurant since 1962, has closed. (Instagram)
Appalachian State University will resume classes on Wednesday, Oct. 16. (WRAL)
🍽️ Counter-, the popular tasting menu restaurant by James Beard Award-nominated chef Sam Hart, closed temporarily this week after a pipe burst underneath the restaurant.
In January, it'll close for three weeks to do a more serious excavation, Hart wrote on Instagram.
Restoration plans for the historic Excelsior Club in west Charlotte are in jeopardy. (The Charlotte Post)
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Service staff found harmful algal blooms in southern Lake Norman and is warning people and pets not to swim in that area. (Cornelius Today)
