Schools win land dispute with church
Mount Telegram
Thursday, July 19, 2007

A court ruling has given the Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education possession of a local church's land, but a price for the property is undetermined.

The saga between Life United Pentecostal Church and the Board of Education began nearly a year ago when the board asked to buy the church's land in order to build a new Rocky Mount High School. No agreements were made, and the board invoked eminent domain in November, taking the 7.67 acres on Bethlehem Road.

At a hearing on Monday in N.C. Superior Court in Nash County, the church challenged the board's authority to take the land by eminent domain, but Judge Toby Fitch overruled the church's arguments.
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