🌱 Gas Prices Up + COVID Updates + End of Mask Mandate Looms

Morning, neighbors! It's Cassie Fambro, new Charlotte Patch Editor. I will be sending out these helpful emails daily and I need your help! If you have a story idea, need a hand learning some information or maybe just want to introduce yourself, email me at fambropatch@gmail.com anytime. Here goes!

First, today's weather:

Warm with plenty of sunshine. High: 77 Low: 42.

Here are the top stories today in Cornelius:

1. Mecklenburg County Mask Mandate Could End this Month (Charlotte Patch)
2. COVID vaccine live updates: Here’s what to know in North Carolina on Nov. 8 (Raleigh News & Observer)
3. Drug network supplier from N. Carolina sentenced to prison (Charlotte Observer)
4. Gas Prices in Charlotte Region Tie 8 Year High (Charlotte Patch)
5. Colonial Pipeline buying more land near massive gasoline spill in Huntersville | The Pulse (The Progressive Pulse)

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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.

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