by Wadesboro | Aug 27, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Anyone who has spent time working for, with or around small-town government will recognize many of the characters in the 2019 documentary “Tread.” The film tells...
by Wadesboro | Aug 20, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. I arrived home one day last week to find an IMPORTANT, OFFICIAL BUSINESS letter from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture in my mailbox. I knew it was...
by Wadesboro | Aug 13, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. I was at my favorite BBQ place the other day, waiting for my pickup order, when the soulful strains of a lonely saxophone wafted from the radio behind the counter, followed by...
by Wadesboro | Aug 6, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, Steve Bailey, is outreach coordinator at the Anson County Historical Society. The mission of the Friends of Old Westview Cemetery Inc., led by founder and president Rose Sturdivant Young, is to continue to provide maintenance for this once-abandoned...
by Wadesboro | Aug 6, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Today marks the first anniversary of my weekly Field Notes column in the Speckled Paw newsletter. Five hundred words, give or take, every week for the past year. When one of...
