Good news for the town of Mooresville and everyone who wants to preserve
iconic legacy. Of course, the town, where Dale owned his Dale Earnhardt Inc. race team and lived nearby, is currently assessing the request by his widow, Teresa Earnhardt, to rezone it for an industrial complex called Mooresville Technology Park. Now, Teresa doesn’t exactly have the best reputation with fans of NASCAR and her late husband, many of whom even refer to her as “The Wicked Witch of the South.” There are plenty of reasons as to why that is, which you can read more about
. Bottom line is, she’s not a favorite among NASCAR fans or North Carolinians, and this is thankfully something we have some say in. On Tuesday night, there was a huge crowd of almost 200 neighbors in attendance at the town meeting, including Rene Earnhardt, wife of Dale Earnhardt’s oldest son, Kerry, who urged the Mooresville Planning Board to recommend denial of Teresa’s request. The industrial park would sit on 399 acres of beautiful countryside, in one of the less populated areas of the county, on the eastern side of Iredell. According to