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North Carolina State Superintendent Mo Green made a visit to Concord to host a public listening and learning session with parents and teachers.

CONCORD, N.C. — North Carolina State Superintendent Mo Green visited Concord to host a public listening and learning session Wednesday night. The superintendent is holding eight listening and learning sessions in each of the state’s regions.

During that meeting at Harold Winkler Middle School, parents and teachers were asked to answer four questions. One of those questions asked, "What are the challenges and potential solutions for North Carolina Public Schools?"

In a packed auditorium with hundreds of people, parents and teachers told North Carolina superintendent Mo Green that administrators need to address bullying.

Frank Brown is one of the parents who spoke about the impact bullying had on his children’s mental health.

“I had a son who's actually 36 now that tried to kill himself when he was a senior in high school, and thankfully that didn’t happen, and now, I have a daughter that struggles with anxiety issues,” Brown said.

Green says it’s an issue that must be addressed from the top level down to the classroom. He said it could even require a response from law enforcement.

“I do think there are four things we need to focus on, one that was lifted up this evening, which is regard to having more mental health professionals working with our students,” Green said.

Green said that means getting more counselors, social workers, and school psychologists working with students who are victims of bullying, as well as the students responsible for doing the bullying. Brown said those resources would have helped his children cope with anxiety.

“I’ve seen it with every one of my kids in a different way and they have been bullied and then they begin to think am I supposed to take my life, what am I to do, just to have a resource to help people encourage them and a hotline as well for them to discuss things that they may not feel comfortable with me,” Brown said.

Green said he also wants to look at character development.

We also asked him what type of guidance he is giving districts after President Trump's executive order to dismantle the Department of Education.

Green encourages districts to keep their focus on the dollars that are still coming in and manage the anxiety.

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CONCORD, N.C. (WBTV) - Avelo Airlines opened its newest base of operations at Concord-Padgett Regional Airport Thursday.

The opening of Avelo’s base in Concord includes positioning two aircraft, the addition of new destinations and creating up to 50 new jobs.

The airline serves seven nonstop destinations from Concord and will begin its nonstop service to Daytona Beach, Florida, and Nashville, Tennessee on April 3.

“Our Queen City Customers tell us they have loved flying Avelo since we took flight at USA 10 months ago,” said Avelo Airlines Founder and CEO Andrew Levy. “The fast and easy, small hometown airport experience USA offers is a relaxing alternative to CLT. Our seven nonstop destinations are just the beginning. Avelo’s Queen City base enables us to bring more affordable, convenient and industry-leading reliability to even more destinations — while creating more jobs and economic opportunity for the region. At the same time, we are making it even easier for travelers to visit the Greater Charlotte region. We appreciate the warm reception Avelo has received, and we look forward to bolstering our presence in this vibrant fast-growing community.”

Since starting service in May 2024, Avelo has flown more than 65,000 customers on over 550 flights from Concord. Avelo will serve the following seven citiies from Concord:

According to the airline, the 50 new positions will include a combination of Avelo employees and jobs with Avelo business partners operating at the Concord airport. Roles will include airport customer service, flight attendants, pilots, aircraft technical operations, maintenance and supervisors.

In North Carolina, Avelo also operates a base at the Raleigh airport - which serves seven domestic and international destinations. Avelo plans to open its third North Carolina base in Wilmington in April.

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The largest hospitals serving the Charlotte region are competing to add more hospital beds in Cabarrus County, with plans costing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Atrium Health and Novant Health submitted proposals to the state Health Department to provide medical services to residents in the Charlotte suburb, according a list of projects released by the state on March 1. There’s a need to add 126 acute-care hospital beds in the county by 2027 for short-term patients, according to the 2025 State Medical Facilities Plan.

To fill that need, Charlotte-based Atrium Health and Novant Health, headquartered in Winston-Salem, filed Certificate of Need applications with the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. If two or more hospitals are competing for services in a specific area, state regulators review each application to see if it meets CON requirements before selecting one to move forward.

N.C. law doesn’t allow health care providers to acquire, replace or add to their facilities and equipment, except in certain circumstances, without approval from the state. Approval is also required for certain medical services to help control increasing health care costs and to make sure services are not duplicated.

▪ Atrium Health wants to build a five-story patient tower with 126 beds at its Atrium Health Cabarrus campus in Concord at 920 Church St. If approved, the hospital’s bed total would be 671.

The tower would be adjacent and connected to the hospital building, according to the application. Atrium is also expanding and relocating services such as labs, pharmacy, dietary services and administrative office space.

A new parking deck and an emergency room are also on the site plan. The total projected cost is more than $208 million.

Patients choose Atrium’s services because of the quality of care and the expansion is needed to meet the needs of a growing community, the company said in a statement.

“Our facilities in Mecklenburg, Union and Cabarrus counties are running at high occupancy rates, creating a consistent demand on resources,” Atrium Health stated. “Therefore, additional bed licenses are needed. We are grateful that patients continue to choose Atrium Health for their care.”

▪ Novant wants to open a $336.4 million 50-hospital bed on Trinity Road in Concord.

In the application, Novant said the 50 beds is 40% of the projected need in Cabarrus County. But if Novant gets the nod to build, it will not stop the state from awarding the remaining beds to other applicants.

Novant said it would also improve competition. Atrium Health Cabarrus is the only hospital in the county.

The plans also include an emergency department and surgical services.

Novant is eager to provide a new opportunity for Cabarrus County patients to receive care closer to home, according to the hospital system. “We have been caring for patients from this area for many years, despite their often long commute for general and specialty care at our facilities in Mecklenburg and Rowan Counties,” Novant told The Charlotte Observer.

If approved, the hospital would be ready by 2030.

Novant is one of the largest hospital systems in North Carolina and the Southeast.

Its network has more than 900 locations, including 19 hospitals, 750 physician clinics, 40,000 employees, urgent care centers, outpatient facilities and imaging services.

Atrium Health is a part of Charlotte-based Advocate Health. The hospital system is the third-largest nonprofit health system in the U.S. and serves about 6 million patients.

More than 155,000 employees work in 68 hospitals and over 1,000 health care locations.

Atrium Health also is partnering with Wake Forest University and Wexford Science & Technology to open the first four-year medical school in Charlotte this summer. Wake Forest University School of Medicine-Charlotte creates a second campus in midtown for the Winston-Salem-based school.

The 20-acre campus will be on the corner of South McDowell and Baxter streets in the Pearl District, a $1.5 billion project with retail, offices, hotels, apartments.

This story was originally published March 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM.

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Chase Jordan is a business reporter for The Charlotte Observer, and has nearly a decade of experience covering news in North Carolina. Prior to joining the Observer, he was a growth and development reporter for the Wilmington StarNews. The Kansas City native is a graduate of Bethune-Cookman University.