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Showing the strength of the growing and bustling local business community in Rocky Mount Business, Babington Technology, was one of just 13 small businesses from across the United States recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to receive a grant from the allotted $1.3 million dollars to be part of a project to aid in the reduction of electrical power consumption, reduce the emission of carbon, and lower the price for consumers associated with cookstove combustion technology.

On the EPA’s official website, it was noted that “The 13 businesses we are funding today are producing innovative and creative solutions for our country’s environmental problems,” said Thomas Burke, EPA science advisor and deputy assistant administrator of EPA’s Office of Research and Development. “Small businesses play an integral role in creating technologies that will help ensure a sustainable future for our country.”

The article continued in explaining the grants, saying, “Each of the 13 companies will receive a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract for up to $100,000 to develop their green technology. If Phase I is successful, companies will be eligible to apply for a Phase II contract of up to $300,000 to develop and commercialize their technology for the marketplace.”

For more information on these grants including more on Rocky Mount Business, Babington Technology, visit the official site of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, epa.org.

The Rocky Mount Mills site is introducing another way for the Live Music in Rocky Mount options that are always so popular every summer, and with acts coming in from across the south east just minutes from your new home at Belmont Lake Preserve .

A package show coming to town will featuring Atlanta’s top Rhythm and Blues artists and Pat “Mother Blues” Cohen. This is a fast paced and engaging program that I have toured on major festival stages all over the world. This show features an incredible rhythm section and horns. They present a rich and dynamic program that encompasses many blues traditions and R&B.

Schoolkids Records – Raleigh & North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC are extremely proud to announce the Mill Music Sessions @ Rocky Mount Mills featuring very special guest Music Maker Relief Foundation Blues Revue!

Join us on the lawn at Rocky Mount Mills for an evening of music and fun. Just bring your lawn chair, blanket, family and friends. Pick up a picnic dinner from one of the restaurants, food trucks on campus and grab a drink from one of the local breweries or the bottle shop.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
5:30pm-Food Trucks and Beer Vendors Open
5:30pm-6:30pm- Opening Act, TBD
7:00pm-9:00pm- Music Maker Relief Foundation Blues Revue