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		<title>Belmont Concerts in the Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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The first of four concerts in the park was held this past Saturday evening, with the Center City Groove band, entertaining a relatively sparse crowd based on past history.

The Center City Groove is a 5 piece cover band, doing music from the 60&#8217;s, 70&#8217;s, and 80&#8217;s. Of course, the obligatory &#8220;Electric Slide&#8221; too.
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		<title>Belmont Middle School Footies to meet Grier in Semis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Belmont Middle School Girl&#8217;s soccer team is slated to meet the 9-1 Grier team at Belmont Central&#8217;s field today at 4:00 PM.
Belmont had a great regular season also finishing 9-1 after a loss at Cramerton on Monday. Belmont is led by the young newest  footie phemon, Molly Fisher, an 8th grader who will be attending SPHS [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belmontfrontporch.wordpress.com&blog=796522&post=970&subd=belmontfrontporch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Belmont to citizens: Go Fly a Kite!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, that is what the city is telling their citizens on sandwich boards scattered about the city. 

Of course it is in reference to the Parks and Recreation, Go Fly a Kite celebration, this Saturday, March 15, at the Belmont Central Elementary school soccer field. 
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		<title>Wow ! Newcomers make another impact</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See The Spectacular 33 N. Main Renovation Thursday
    
What a difference in the building at 33 N. Main in Belmont from August to March! 
And here’s your chance to see the renovation that owner Richard LaVecchia has achieved as the new Designing Brides and the relocated Peppermint Shoestring hold an open house and grand opening [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belmontfrontporch.wordpress.com&blog=796522&post=920&subd=belmontfrontporch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ribbon-Cutting Tuesday, March 4, at Stowe Pointe Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Montcross Area Chamber member, Stowe Pointe, invites fellow members and friends to a catered lunch, prize giveaways, a ribbon-cutting and tours of the newly decorated Winslow II model on Tuesday, March 4, from 11 AM until 2 PM 
 
(Lennar Homes rendition)
Stowe Pointe is a Lennar Homes community at 405 Stowe Road, which is off South Point [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belmontfrontporch.wordpress.com&blog=796522&post=875&subd=belmontfrontporch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HOORAY !!!      BannerNews Online Fulltime !!</title>
		<link>http://belmontfrontporch.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/hooray-bannernews-online-fulltime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Congratulations to our local hometown paper the BannerNews on their launch of an online version of the weekly paper. The Belmont Front Porch has added your link under our column of &#8220;websites of interest&#8221; (below). 
We sincerely welcome Republic Newspapers and the reporters and editors of the Belmont Banner and Mt. Holly News to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belmontfrontporch.wordpress.com&blog=796522&post=857&subd=belmontfrontporch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Belmont Abbey making area headlines lately</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe this blogsite has tweaked area media outlets a bit. Maybe they didn&#8217;t like being upstaged a few times. We don&#8217;t care either way, Belmont seems to be getting better coverage across the board for everything from the Abbey&#8217;s personnel policies and the monastic community lifestyle to our Belmont politics and school functions.
 (Gazette Photo)
Even the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belmontfrontporch.wordpress.com&blog=796522&post=854&subd=belmontfrontporch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dole and Myrick distancing themselves from Lame Duck President</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Elizabeth Dole and US Representative Sue Myrick both appear to be distancing themselves from President Bush and his hum-hum final year agenda for the nation. 
                                                    
Ms. Myrick decided to &#8220;&#8230;stay home and watch the president&#8217;s address on television&#8230;&#8221; on Monday evening, while Mrs. Dole had a previous engagement to speak in front [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belmontfrontporch.wordpress.com&blog=796522&post=803&subd=belmontfrontporch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orchid Conservatory at DSBG opens Saturday</title>
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The Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens (DSBG) are by far the coolest piece of the Gaston County sites to visit. Over time, the Gardens will be larger and more complete &#8212; there is a 40-year Master Plan for the site &#8212; world class by anyone&#8217;s standards. This was a privately funded project without government &#8220;partnership&#8221;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belmontfrontporch.wordpress.com&blog=796522&post=738&subd=belmontfrontporch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Belmont resident to give leadership to Tourism group</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friend and neighbor, Walt Israel, was tapped by the Gaston County Travel and Tourism board to serve as the interim director of the organization.
He has begun the $50,000 temporary postion and will concentrate on moving the Big League Dreams project in Gastonia and helping to recruit new hotels to the area. The Tourism department of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belmontfrontporch.wordpress.com&blog=796522&post=703&subd=belmontfrontporch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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