Belmont News

Some say that the perfect summer drink is a cold beer. Others prefer drinks with rum or gin, or the trendier Latino liquors tequila and pisco.

It has been several years since I have written about Friendly Chapel Baptist Church located just out of Fallston, at 738 Sugar Hill Road.

According to a May 13 article on Engadget, the new kitchen tablet, ChefPad by Archos, will be available on June 1. It will have a special case to avoid splashes, and it will have kitchen apps installed on it to make your recipe searching simple.

Finding Credible Health Information Online, 6-7:30 p.m. May 15, Steele Creek Public Library.

A Belmont businessman on Friday admitted to orchestrating a Ponzi scheme over the last year and a half that swindled local investors out of several hundred thousand dollars.

After record-setting rainfall and flooding earlier in the week, several counties along the Catawba River are under a flood advisory till 8 p.m. Friday.

Whatever your musical disposition, you'll find plenty to like about the local outdoor concert season.

Grier was arrested in September and charged with using a city credit card to buy gas for his personal use.

Businesses, parents and the public can also donate. Books gathered will be given to kids who don't have books at home or won't be able to visit libraries while on summer vacation.

A Gastonia man was arrested after he drove off the road and passed out behind the wheel, according to police.

Real estate transactions represent transfer of real property recorded with the Gaston County Register of Deeds.

Businesses, parents and the public can also donate. Books gathered will be given to kids who don't have books at home or won't be able to visit libraries while on summer vacation.

CommunityOne Bank recently named Geanina Neal as branch manager for the Gastonia branch and Mitchell Johnson as branch manager for the Belmont branch.

The Holy Angels Horticulture Program will be holding a plant sale on Thursday, May 10, 2013 and Friday, May 11, 2013.

If you have a hankering for a Banshie, Bodie or Carrie sandwich, you'll need to get to H&M Deli and Market in Cramerton before mid-May. That's when the store that's been open for four and a half years will be shutting its doors.

Stephanie Ann Neal Price, 42, of 3006 Lowell Road, Lowell, was arrested Wednesday on charges of second-degree arson and simple assault.

If every resident of five eastern Gaston County towns logs a mile a week, they'll collectively amass more than a million miles of physical activity in a year.

The Second Annual Gospelfest will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Hoyle Memorial United Methodist Church, 1741 Fallston Road, Shelby.

Thanks to a reader's watchful eye, I learned dirt has started turning to make way for the Montcross Senior Living Apartments.

BELMONT, N.C. The toxicology report on a Belmont mother who was missing for several months before her body was found in a car down an embankment concludes the cause of death is "combined toxicity". The toxicology report stated high levels of dextromethorphan and bupropion metabolite could be fatal, coupled with the elevated Sertraline level ... (more)