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Volume 85 • Issue 31
• Belmont • Cramerton • Lowell • McAdenville • Mount Holly • Stanley
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Belmont Public Works building renovation on track By Alan Hodge alan@cfmedia.info
The major remodeling project on the City of Belmont Public Works building at 1401 Catawba St. has made great progress over the past months and is entering the homestretch of its new use and look. The 1980s era building, which has formerly occupied by Woodlawn Mills and Beltex Corp. and has been used by Belmont as its public works headquarters for the past several years and is being transformed into a modern, state of the art, efficient, spacious, and comfortable complex for the city’s business and its administrative staff.
The building has a lot of space including 55K sq. ft. that will retain its use as a warehouse for city equipment, supplies, and vehicles, as well as a 21K sq. ft., three level portion that will serve as the administrative office complex side of things. “We hope to have the project finished and everyone in their new offices by Christmas,” said Belmont’s public works director David Isenhour. As of last week, employees from Charlotte-based Momentum Construction and other companies have built interior walls, run wiring, put in HVAC ducts, and continued work on an elevator tower that will run on the outside of the front of the building.
The tower will feature a large City of Belmont logo. “The elevator will come the last part of September or first part of October,” said contractor foreman Kelly Hillman. The same end of the building that the elevator is on will also have a huge, three story glass wall. The upper two levels of the building will be the new home of the city’s administrative departments such as city clerk, city manager, planning and zoning, billing, and customer service. The offices will get new furniture and equipment. There will be a nice lunch room for employees as well as a kitchen and lockers. See BELMONT, Page 2
Momentum Construction foreman Kelly Hillman enjoying the view at one of the windows of the Belmont Public Works construction project.
Candidate filing wraps up for Gaston County elections Filing for the upcoming November municipal elections in Gaston County closed July19. Candidates and the offices they are running for in the BannerNews circulation area are listed below. Belmont City Council: Ron Foulk, Claudina Ghianni-Toole, Danny Hayward, Jim Hefferan, Marc Seelinger, Martha Stowe.
Work is moving along on the new Goat Island Greenway Extension. Marty Sexton with Eaglewood General Contractors (the folks doing the job) is seen at the trail’s entrance near Goat Island Park’s Greenwood Place parking lot. Photo by Alan Hodge
Goat Island Greenway Extension project is moving along By Alan Hodge alan@cfmedia.info
Months of rain may have slowed things down, but drier weather more recently
has put the new Goat Island Greenway Extension walking trail back on track and closer than ever to completion. The trail begins at Goat Is-
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Cramerton Town Commissioner: Richard Atkinson, Susan Neely, Donald Rice. City of Lowell MayorSandy Railey, Larry Simonds. City of Lowell Council Member- Phil Bonham, Sean Brafford, John Cato, Ken Ervin, Candy Funderburk, Thomas Gillespie, Ashley Merritt, Bob Mulholland, Martha Patterson Ray, Shane Robinson, Ann Worthy. Town of McAdenville
Mayor- Farrell Buchanan, Jim Robinette. Town of McAdenville Council Member- Joe Rankin, Reid Washam. City of Mt Holly MayorBryan Hough. City of Mt. Holly Council Member- James Black, Carolyn Breyare, Dennis Dotson II, Phyllis Harris, Jeff Meadows, Christina Pawlish, Kenneth Reeves, Perry Toomey. Town of Stanley MayorSteven Denton. Town of Stanley Council Member Ward 01- Lloyd Bud Pate. Town of Stanley Council Member Ward 03- Jimmy Ingold, Rob McMinn. Town of Stanley Council Member Ward 04- Victoria Kiser. Election Day will be Tuesday, November 5, 2019. Early voting will begin on Wednesday, October 16, 2019 and end on Friday,
November 1, 2019. For updates, please check www. gastoncountyelections.com or Board of Elections Facebook, Instagram or Twitter feeds. Also, The Gaston County Board of Elections will hold two educational seminars about voter photo identification requirements at the following locations: August 13, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. –Gaston College Dallas Campus, Myers Auditorium, 201 Highway 321 South, Dallas, and August 15, 2019 at 6:00 p.m., Gaston County Main Library, 1555 East Garrison Boulevard, Gastonia. The seminars are free and open to the public. Beginning in 2020, voters will be required to provide photo identification before they vote. This includes both in-person and by-mail voting, with some exceptions. In November 2018, North Carolina voters approved See CANDIDATES, Page 3
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