With grateful hearts and great excitement, Ripe for Revival officially cut the ribbon on The Seed , their new Community Culinary Outreach space at Rocky Mount Mills. More than just a kitchen, The Seed is designed to nourish families, educate neighbors, strengthen partnerships, and create lasting impact  across the region. “The Seed is the next chapter of Ripe for Revival,” said Anne Parker, Director of Marketing & Communications. “It allows our mission to grow beyond food acc

In many communities, Southern Bank is more than a place to manage money. It hosts chamber meetings, opens first accounts for graduates, and anchors longstanding commercial relationships on Main Street. As it marks 125 years, the bank’s story is less a chronicle of milestones than a record of countless everyday moments: the family taking its first mortgage, the barber renewing a business line, the community group funding a playground.

When W.A. Bulluck opened a small furniture store in Rocky Mount in 1900, he probably didn’t imagine that more than a century later, people would still be gathering under the Bulluck name — not just to shop, but to take part in what has become one of the area’s most recognizable local traditions. Today, Bulluck Furniture is one of Eastern North Carolina’s longest-running home furnishings businesses, and its annual Warehouse Sale is less of a retail event and more of a communi