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Gospel competition
The Black History Forum will hold a musical competition, July 27 at 3 p.m., at the Tuckaseegee Center in Mount Holly.
Called “Gospel Explosion 2008,” John Hope and Caroline Brown are counting on the show to add funds to the Rollins School project. They are planning for this to continue as an annual event, and the winner gets to hold on to the trophy until the following year.
Tickets may be purchased at City Hall or from any Black History Committee member at a cost of $7 each. All church choirs, quartets and individual singers are invited to participate.
Call John Hope at (980)522-0248 or Caroline Howard at (704) 931-4138 for more information.
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Body found in lake
By THOMAS LARK
- Thu, Aug 28, 2008
BELMONT—An unidentified male was found apparently drowned in Lake Wylie on Saturday.
According to Gaston County Police Department Sgt. Chris Reynolds, GCPD personnel responded at about 7 a.m. at the Seven Oaks Bridge on South New Hope Road at the Gaston County line, just south of Belmont and the Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden. Reynolds said the unidentified male was floating in the water. The GCPD was notified by a boater on Lake Wylie.
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Restoring a work of art
By THOMAS LARK
- Thu, Aug 28, 2008
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| University of South Carolina art student Jaime Morgan works on restoring this 68-year-old mural at Belmont City Hall. - Photo by Thomas Lark |
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BELMONT—History says that Pope Julius II repeatedly asked Michelangelo when the Sistine Chapel would be completed.
“When will you make an end?” the pontiff demanded.
“When it is finished!” the great artist famously replied.
To finish the frescoes would take Michelangelo four years.
But at Belmont City Hall, it would seem that a mere five or so working days would do the trick. Last week, artist Peter DeAnna’s 68-year-old mural, “Maj. William Chronicle’s South Fork Boys,” received a meticulous restoration, thanks to Crawford Conservation, Inc.
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Driver’s actions probed
From staff reports
- Thu, Aug 28, 2008
BELMONT—More information has come to light in the case of an Aug. 7 hit-and-run fatality.
Belmont Police Department Chief David James confirmed Friday that BPD investigators recently served a search warrant to a little-known area watering hole where Charla Dean Davis may have gone before she struck and killed trucker Ronnie Gene Eudy, 40, of Charlotte, with her SUV.
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DOT official: trains could roll in 2009
By THOMAS LARK
- Thu, Aug 28, 2008
MOUNT HOLLY—Trains could roll through a new Mount Holly neighborhood as soon as next year.
That’s the word from engineer Steve Head, the North Carolina Department of Transportation Rail Division’s manager of rail corridors.
“Yes,” he said, “we are in the process of evaluating the reactivation of service to the Piedmont & Northern rail line. Specifically, we’re in the procurement process. Our bid solicitation package went out in 2007,” said Head. “They went out to a number of folks, and the bids came in during the fourth quarter of last year.”
Bill Gray, the president of the Ohio Valley Railroad Company’s Carolina Central Division, submitted the winning proposal to the NCDOT to reactivate the 15-mile short line track, which lay dormant for the better part of 20 years, Head said. Since receiving Gray’s proposal, the DOT has been in its due diligence period.
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Will neighborhood be railroaded?
By THOMAS LARK
- Thu, Aug 28, 2008
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| This train track is mere feet away from homes on Moses Rhyne Drive in Mount Holly. Residents of a new neighborhood are concerned that it could once again be used by trains. - Photo by Thomas Lark |
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MOUNT HOLLY—Where some see trouble, Mayor Robert Whitt sees opportunities.
Whitt spoke last week about the concerns some Rhyne’s Trace and Rhyne’s Estate neighborhood residents have for the possibility of a Piedmont & Northern railroad being brought back to life as part of a $5 million North Carolina Department of Transportation project.
The railroad, owned by the NCDOT, runs right up against their neighborhoods, located near Mount Holly’s border with North Belmont. A disused rail line, greatly in need of repair, directly abuts the property lines of 10-12 lots on Moses Rhyne Drive in the Rhyne’s Estate neighborhood. The railway lies not 50 feet from the backyard decks of these new homes, which range in price from $280,000 to $425,000, according to contractor Greg Dimmer of Mount Holly.
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