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Tuesday's Tuesdays of Honor comes from a family that wants to recognize their father, Silas Franklin Plybon of Rocky Mount, Virginia, who was drafted into the U.S. Army at age 1...

Basketball (Boys) · 2026-11-20 19:00 The Hidden Valley varsity basketball team has an away non-conference game @ Franklin County (Rocky Mount, VA) on Friday, November 20 @ 7p.

A 14-foot bronze monument honoring 70 Black men of the US Colored Troops from Franklin County was unveiled on January 18, 2026.

In December 2025 the governor announced a $4.9 million expansion of the Cornerstone Building Brands plant in Rocky Mount, adding 50 jobs.

Ground was broken on September 23, 2024, for a monument in Rocky Mount honoring 70 Black Union soldiers from Franklin County.

Ron Hodges, a Rocky Mount native who caught for the New York Mets, died in Roanoke on November 24, 2023, at age 74.

On July 21, 2020, the Franklin County Board of Supervisors voted to ask voters in November whether to move the Confederate monument from the courthouse grounds.

Fleetwood Homes announced a $2.1 million expansion of its Rocky Mount factory on July 6, 2020, creating 60 jobs for a workforce of 146.

Tuesday's Tuesdays of Honor comes from a family that wants to recognize their father, Silas Franklin Plybon of Rocky Mount, Virginia, who was drafted into the U.S. Army at age 1...