Belmonts News

Most everyone has heard the saying, "Give a hoot. Don't pollute," but the word around Hunters Bend Elementary these days is "Don't be a water hog, be a water hero." Fifth-graders at the school on Tuesday shared their lessons on how not to be a water hog with second-graders at their school, with the help of students from Belmont University's ...

'Christmas at Belmont' Concert Features Local Students November 18, 2009 - Carleton Coggins from Simpsonville, SC, and Wes Crenshaw from Pickens, SC, will be performing in Belmont University's annual 'Christmas at Belmont' holiday special, which will be hosted by alumna and three-time Grammy Award winning country artist, Trisha Yearwood.

Joyce Espy Searcy has been named to the new position of director of community relations at Belmont University .

Belmont's proposed operating budget, approved by selectmen and now in the hands of the Budget Committee, is 4.3 percent higher than last year, mainly due to rising health insurance costs.

Belmont University has named a Yale graduate as the first dean of its new law school.

"What Do You See?": "Here is what you would find as your ideal of the physical. Can you see more than just eye candy?" asks photographer Joel Belmont.

Belmont University celebrated the "topping out" of its new $30 million health sciences building, which will be the new home of the School of Pharmacy.

A public hearing about the progress of the Pleasant Valley project led to a longer conversation about Belmont's weeklong boil order and how the town should respond to such emergencies in the future.

Turn Away rallied to beat Are We Dreamin by a neck Sunday in the $67,500 Top Secret Stakes for fillies and mares in the slop at Belmont Park.Ramon Dominguez was aboard for trainer Bobby Frankel as Turn Away improved to 4-for-8 with her first stakes victory.

Freshman students from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont set up a carnival for the children of migrant farmworkers in the Soledad area last weekend.

Due to heavy rain forecast for the New York area during the latter half of the week, The New York Racing Association has moved the scheduled feature race for Oct.

Girolamo, a late-developing 3-year-old, beat Burley's Gold by 1 1/4 lengths Sunday in the $150,000 Jerome Handicap at Belmont Park.

If the timing of Belmont University's ambitious announcement was a mere coincidence, it was a mighty sweet one.

11 at Keeneland. He is one of three starters entered for Todd Pletcher. A homebred of Wertheimer and Frere, Interactif was assigned top weight of 123 pounds and will give six pounds to his other 11 rivals in the 1 1/16-mile Bourbon, a "Win and You're In" race for the $1-million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf to be run Nov.

Belmont University will open a College of Law in fall 2011, the first new law school in Middle Tennessee in nearly a century, despite a recession that has cut several thousand lawyers from major law firms this year and a general trend toward re-pricing and restructuring of law services.

Belmont's College of Law provides a natural extension of the university's mission and vision, which emphasize challenging academics, a service-minded approach, real-world experience and community leadership.

8, with the celebration to include the giving away of more than $26,000 in free food and creating more than 65 new jobs.

The Chick-fil-A chain will open Belmont's first stand-alone restaurant on Thursday, creating 65 jobs in the area.

USF Student Governmentsenate is holding an interim election Oct. 13 to fill 16 vacant positions, which will be overseen by senate President Jennifer Belmont instead of the Election RulesCommission .

When it blooms it's spectacular, with an intensely fragrant white flower the size of a small dinner plate.