Rocky Mount News

The apparent low construction bid for the long-delayed uptown revitalization project in Rocky Mount is almost $2 million by a South Boston company.

Several character witnesses testified Monday on Dean Harold Stone's behalf during his trial on molestation charges, including two ministers who have counseled him.

Coming up with the right band name is hard. For a good example, look no further than Blacksburg's own DecembeRadio.

The stage is set for an unusual event, "Bargains, Boogie and Barbecue," to be held along Franklin Street in Rocky Mount from early morning until late night Saturday.

A single-engine plane with two people on board was forced to make an emergency landing in a Newton County field on Wednesday afternoon.

As the engines chugged, tractors pulled and appetites grew, visitors flocked to the sixth annual Southwest Virginia Antique Farm Days over the weekend.

Staff Photo by Charles Boothe: The Franklin County Board of Supervisors will hear a plan to eliminate the dangerous hydraulic in front of the Pigg River dam beside the veterans memorial park in Rocky Mount.

The Rocky Mount Masonic Lodge will provide free child identification kits at the Southwest Virginia Antique Farms Days Festival, according to a news release from the lodge.

The town of Rocky Mount is getting pinched like many other Virginia localities these days.

Phillip Swicegood fishes from a concrete area above the Pigg River low-head dam at Veterans' Memorial Park in Rocky Mount.

"I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down." -- Abraham Lincoln Like Lincoln, there are countless youth and adults in the Smith Mountain Lake community who could use a friend who believes in them as they strive to overcome difficulty and exceed expectations.

Bobby Pruitt, Franklin County Parks System manager, spoke to 25 members of the Rotary Club of Smith Mountain Lake on May 28.

A1 2, but Johnathan Dillon's tempo as a bluegrass musician hasn't skipped a beat.

Staff Photo by Morris Stephenson: The Pigg River was rolling over the old Rocky Mount power dam on Power Dam Road at mid-morning Friday.

Conservation police are confirming the drowning of a Franklin County man just north of Rocky Mount.

A man drowned in the Blackwater River just north of Rocky Mount on Saturday afternoon after the canoe in which he was riding capsized, police said.

June 6, 2009 Drowning at Rocky Mount Water Treatment Plant One person is dead after an accident at the Rocky Mount Water Treatment Plant in Franklin County.

Staff Photo by Morris Stephenson A 2000 Volvo, replica of a 1950 Porsche and a 1987 Volvo were heavily damaged Thursday afternoon when a large cherry tree fell across the vehicles at the home of John Speidel at 580 South Main Street in Rocky Mount.

Despite the tough economic times, Rocky Mount will not dip into its reserve fund of $10.5 million to ease the financial crunch in the town's fiscal 2010 budget.

In the letter she left at the orphanage, Katherine Morris pleaded with social workers to treat her baby boy right.