Davidson

Vernon Siders Jr. was a police officer with the NYPD when the World Trade Center was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Now retired and living in Mooresville, he looks back on that day 20 years ago and how the experience changed him.

Davidson native Margaret Boykin is director of film development at Ubisoft, the company known for mega-hit video games like the Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy's franchises. The latest game-to-film adaptation is "Werewolves Within," out now, with Boykin as a key producer.

The town board in Davidson Tuesday night approved a plan that will use public and private money to build affordable housing as part of a proposed 81-unit luxury townhome development.

The Ada Jenkins Center in Davidson is shutting down its 18-year-old weekly free medical clinic and is now referring patients to a free clinic in Huntersville that operates five days a week. The center's CEO said a loss of funding and new priorities drove the move.

Local governments across North Carolina have mostly weathered the economic downturn that came with the coronavirus pandemic. Stimulus programs and a rebounding economy mean property tax collections and sales tax revenues are getting back to normal. But some other areas remain weak, like travel and tourism tax revenues.

Still have questions about asbestos in Davidson? Or about asbestos in general? Here's a map of the latest testing and cleanup efforts as wells as links to documents and other resources.

In this hourlong special, we'll hear stories about cancer-causing asbestos left behind after the closing of the Carolina Asbestos Co. in downtown Davidson, North Carolina.

The EPA will be back in Davidson next week to start another round of asbestos cleanups, including a town park. Meanwhile, work is wrapping up on removing asbestos-laden soil found during construction of a water main upgrade in the neighborhood.

Asbestos contamination from an old factory in Davidson is not just an environmental concern on site. It's also a problem throughout the historically African American neighborhood nearby. Today, in the second of our three-part series Asbestos Town, WFAE environmental reporter David Boraks looks at how Davidson is still dealing with the legacies of its asbestos-producing past, including long-simmering distrust from the Black community.

Federal environmental officials say they've finished testing more than 100 additional properties around an old asbestos mill in Davidson. Only six --…