🌱 Brewery Opens + Festival For Mia Goodwin + Baby Born on 2/2

Happy Wednesday, neighbors! Here's everything you need to know about what's happening around Charlotte today.

First, today's weather:

A couple of morning showers. High: 71 Low: 56.

Here are the top stories in Charlotte today:

1. Long-awaited Gilde Brewery opens this week in Charlotte. What to order on your first visit (Charlotte Observer)
2. Charlotte breweries to hold festival for fallen officer Mia Goodwin (WCNC.com)
3. NCDOT donates concrete pipes to build artificial reefs (Charlotte Observer)
4. 15-Year-Old Killed Off Mallard Park Drive In Charlotte (Charlotte Patch)
5. North Carolina baby born on 2/2 at 2:22 a.m. (Mooresville Patch)

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Today in Charlotte:

• Progress Reports Sent Home - Butler High (12:00 AM)
• National Pancake Month at Flying Biscuit Cafe Park Road (7:00 AM)
• Equitable Small Business Series #2 Succession/Estate Planning (12:00 PM)

From my notebook:

• CMPD Animal Care and Control: "Each picture has more info. Adoptable at 8315 Byrum Dr. Charlotte unless otherwise noted. There's always more adoptable dogs listed at http://cltgov.me/petadoption #ACCpups #ACCadopt" (Facebook)
• ArtPop Street Gallery: "✨ G I V E A W A Y ! ✨⁠ ⁠ We're celebrating all of you with a giveaway! To all of our new members of the ArtPop Street Gallery family, welcome! We're spreading the ArtPop love with a prize of your choice of one of our locally designed 'Su..." (Instagram)
• CMPD Animal Care and Control: "#ACCalumni "Bishop (the dobe) was a wild child and nipped when he got too excited, so was hoping that would stop when he got in a normal setting and it worked. Also found out he knows basic commands!"" (Facebook)
• CMPD Animal Care and Control: "Mardi Gras is coming...so we're holding our own Mardi Paws Pawty! All dogs, adoptable and pre-adoptable, are free with a monetary donation. Only running for a short time so take advantage while you can." (Facebook)
• CMPD Animal Care and Control: "Each picture has more info. Adoptable at 8315 Byrum Dr. Charlotte unless otherwise noted. There's always more adoptable dogs listed at http://cltgov.me/petadoption #ACCpups #ACCadopt" (Facebook)
• Charlotte Ballet: ""gypsy moths” is an abstract, non-abstract work celebrating the brilliant music, style, and strength of the groundbreaking 1970’s Black Female Funk Rock Group Labelle and frequent collaborator Laura Nyro." - Ja' Malik We've been so lucky..." (Facebook)

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— Cassie Fambro

About me: A Texas-native, I've spent most of my life in Alabama but have recently moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. I have an avid interest in motorsports, so this makes the Carolinas an ideal region to call home. I have a decade of experience in journalism, graduating from the University of South Alabama with honors in journalism with a double major in psychology and a minor in criminal justice. I spent roughly five years of my career in front of a camera in TV news but I have spent years in print journalism and even earned a couple of cool awards like an Edward R. Murrow award along the way. I enjoy covering stories in education, healthcare, government and most of all, stories that directly help people and improve their lives in some way. Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my partner Matt, and our two cats, Kenly and Gotenks, going to new restaurants and hanging out at racetracks.