News Around Town: The Matthews Alive Board of Directors announced the cancellation of this year’s Matthews Alive Festival. For the first Labor Day in 27 years (plus the many years of Stumptown prior), crowds won’t fill the streets of downtown Matthews. The decision came after lengthy discussion accompanying the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the impossibility for social distancing. 

One Good Thing: Cotton Gin Graphics is working overtime filling in the celebratory voids felt during isolation. Have a fifth grader moving up to middle school? A teacher who deserves special thanks? Make a sign for them! Have a birthday coming up or a forlorn grad in the family? There’s a sign for that. Contact Cotton Gin to place an order.