The July issue of Stroll Ballantyne Country Club is on its way to mailboxes this week, and you do not have to wait for the mail truck. The whole edition is online and free to read right now.
This is the issue that opens the summer. The publishers framed July around Independence Day and the start of the nation's 250th-birthday year, and the cover sets the tone: BCC's 2026 high school graduates, lined up on the steps, a great group of young men and women heading off in every direction from Chapel Hill to South Florida to Saint Bonaventure. If your senior did not make this issue, it is not too late. The magazine is collecting names for an August follow-up.
A few of the stories worth turning to first.
The partner spotlights this month are a strong set. Tasha at Sweet & Elegant Delights has built a custom-dessert business on detail, and she has just added a monthly gourmet cookie collection that her regulars now wait for. Alissa Mariello, the founder behind The Glow Up Laser Spa in Blakeney Town Center, grew up at Ballantyne Country Club and came home to open the kind of laser spa she would want to visit herself. Her piece on why at-home laser devices are a gamble is worth the read before you buy one. Megan Donoho runs the local GEICO office and talks through how she keeps the experience personal in an industry that usually is not. And Cail Pressure Pro is the kind of local, insured, one-person operation the directory exists to surface.
There is more in print than we run as individual stories online. Precious Pet this month is Rudy, an eleven-year-old who has logged more frequent-flyer miles than most people. Making a Difference profiles NothingPink and the gala work it does for breast cancer support and previvors. The Resident Recipe is a 4th of July sugar cookie bar built for a crowd. And the Sip & Stroll spread looks back at the May evening that drew more than 300 neighbors to the BCC event lawn, the night that turned a first-year experiment into a tradition.
If you are still catching up, June's edition is here too, along with our profile of the Echo Foundation and the work it is doing across Charlotte.
And as always, the issue runs on our neighborhood partners. The businesses in the directory and the resident business guide are the reason this magazine reaches your door. When you need a contractor, a realtor, a spa, or somewhere to board the dog for a long weekend, start there, and thank them when you get the chance.
Read the full July edition: download the July 2026 issue of Stroll Ballantyne Country Club (PDF).
Happy Fourth, neighbors. Enjoy the long evenings and the fireworks, and we will see you back here for August.