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🌱 Buc-ee's Gold Rock plans bring rezoning and road changes into focus

Rocky Mount, North Carolina Patch AM: a 4 min read

Hello Rocky Mount! Stay connected with the latest updates from around town. Let's dive in! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Buc-ee's Gold Rock plans bring rezoning and road changes into focus
  • Rocky Mount honors veterans downtown at 11 a.m. today
  • Gryphons hit the road as local playoff football heats up

Also on today's calendar: Workforce Housing Advisory Commission Meeting and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Partly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 73 and low of 49 degrees.
  • Thursday: Times of clouds and sun, temps: high: 71, low: 46.
  • Friday: Breezy and cooler, with a high of 58 and low of 37 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Buc-ee's seeks recommendation from planning board for rezoning (rockymounttelegram.com) — Buc-ee's is seeking rezoning for a proposed travel center at Gold Rock, with plans that include widening interchange roads and adding access from N.C. 48. The company was scheduled to seek a Rocky Mount Planning Board recommendation November 10 and hopes for City Council approval December 14; the report provides no meeting outcome.
   

2. City's Veterans Day ceremony slated for Wednesday morning (reflector.com) — Rocky Mount's Veterans Day ceremony begins at 11 a.m. today at the Veterans Memorial in Jack Laughery Park off North Church Street. Guest speaker Leon Dockery, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and Rocky Mount High JROTC instructor, will join a program honoring veterans and remembering prisoners of war and those missing in action.
   

3. Next round of state playoffs features five local teams at home (reflector.com) — Rocky Mount heads to Havelock for the second round of the state football playoffs after snapping a two-game skid with a win over C.B. Aycock. Five Twin Counties teams have home playoff games this week, including Faith Christian, which faces John Paul II Catholic in a rematch.
   

4. International graduates recognized at NC Wesleyan (springhopeenterprise.com) — Eight international graduates of North Carolina Wesleyan University celebrated their accomplishments with family, friends and the campus community at Rocky Mount’s Englewood Baptist Church on Nov. 9. The graduates shared memories and thanks in English and their native languages, while loved ones unable to attend watched by livestream.
   

5. Diane Lewis Johnson (islandfreepress.org) — Diane Lewis Johnson, who grew up in Rocky Mount and later built a cosmetology career on the Outer Banks, died Nov. 7. A singer and pianist who also taught ballroom dance, she will be remembered at a celebration of life Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. at Jamesville First Baptist Church.
   

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Rocky Mount

Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.

Stay in the loop with what's happening in Rocky Mount

Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.