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The author, Andell McCoy, is a teacher, life coach and expressive artist. That's her artwork featured above. TodayLet’s get more excitedin our livessee and choose to be vivid, vibrant, boldand beautiful colors,start with thinkingI am! Wake up and...
Field Notes: The Redskin Special
The author, John Marek, is a writer and CEO of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. There is a trend on the internet where people post videos of food "hacks" for popular restaurants. Some show ways you can get more for your money by ordering things in a...
Miracles still happen
By Earl Poplin The day before Veterans Day, the First United Methodist Church in Mt. Gilead received a message from Tyler Kramer, who identified himself as a veteran and an archeology student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu. He had...
Field Notes: Pointed in the right direction
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. In last week's column, we explored the similarities between the channels and fine-tuning of analog television and an effectively run nonprofit economic...
‘At no point was the garden formed as part of the appearance board’
Editor's note: The following letter was sent to Town Clerk Amy Roberts by Community Garden leader Mary Poplin this morning (Jan. 4, 2023) following last night's Town Board meeting, during which board members were confused about the relationship of the garden and the...
Field Notes: Fine-tuning a nonprofit
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. If you have ever attended a workshop on productivity and time management, you've probably seen the exercise where the instructor pulls out a glass jar, fills...
Field Notes: Another confluence of things
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. A random collection of books inhabits a shelf above my home office desk. "Toothpicks & Logos" by John Hesket sits binding-to-binding with "How to Work a...
Field Notes: A confluence of things
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. I suppose it says something about me that most of my favorite short stories have dark, if not horrific, twists. "A&P" by John Updike ends with a grocery...
Field Notes: A legend’s last Christmas
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. The arrival of the Sears Wish Book in the mail was thrilling for any child of the '60s and '70s, but if you lived in rural Ohio where retail options were...
Speckled Paw named a N.C. Small Business of the Year by Business North Carolina
The Speckled Paw was named a N.C. Small Business of the Year at an awards ceremony on Wednesday hosted by Business North Carolina at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill. The Paw, along with the three other winners (Core Technology, Firsthand Foods and Seaview Crab Co.),...
Field Notes: That’s a big snake!
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. In rural southern Ohio, about two hours south of Columbus, sits one of the most perplexing structures in the Western Hemisphere. Rising from gently sloping...
Field Notes: So many Thanksgivings
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Marriage complicates the holidays; none more so than Thanksgiving. Christmas you can kinda, sorta turn into two holidays, Christmas Eve with one family and...