December 2025 marked the end of a roughly 14-month process of a boundary adjustment between Franklin County and the Town of Rocky Mount. WFIR’s Denise Allen Membreno has more on what it means for the town’s new residents.
The boundary adjustment adds about 700 acres to the Town of Rocky Mount as well as more than 500 new residents, roughly a 10-percent increase in population. Rocky Mount Mayor C. Holland Perdue III says this was a part of a larger deal that included money for a fire truck and water for the Summit view industrial park in the county.
“This was kind of just something that seemed like the right thing to do when you start looking at those areas, because you had certain neighborhoods that half were in town and half were not,” added Perdue…