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Field Notes: It’s the not so great pumpkin, Mark Adams
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Any group of bored college students can come up with stupendously dumb ways to spend a Saturday night, but in the fall of 1982 my Ohio University buddies and...
Field Notes: The first ‘broken arrow’
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. This week, a fascinating nugget of aviation history. In 1953, a Texas businessman named Ellis Hall disappeared while flying his small plane over the...
Field Notes: Lessons from the cubby
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. There is a shelf, it's a cubby really, in our walk-in closet where I keep my everyday carry items: watch, change, wallet, pen, pocket knife, keys, etc....
Field Notes: Tomorrow’s not promised to men nor cows
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. On my way to get a cup of coffee early Saturday morning, I came across a strange sight along a lonely stretch of rural road. A dead cow was lying in a shallow...
Field Notes: Solar is everywhere and hardly anywhere
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. I received a Science Fair 20-in-1 Electronic Modular Experiment Kit for Christmas one year in my early teens. It consisted of 15 "blocks," each with a...
Field Notes: Neither a borrower …
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. There has been a lot of discussion about student debt lately, and while I have no intention of wading into the quicksand of student loan forgiveness and the...
Field Notes: They should be called the Fayetteville Venus Flytraps
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Back in July, I went to a baseball game. The Kannapolis Cannon Ballers played the Fayetteville Woodpeckers at Atrium Health Ballpark in Kannapolis. The...
Field Notes: The cream pie school of management
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. A couple of weeks ago, I related a story about my experience in a college accounting class. Accounting wasn't the only business class I took that quarter,...
Jordan to build 26-acre park for employees
Robert Jordan IV, president/CEO of Jordan Companies, told us Friday that his company’s investing “several million dollars” in a 26-acre park on Hwy. 109 for his employees and their family members. Robert said, “After the recent purchase of Kellam Manufacturing in...
Field Notes: The summer I turned pretty sixty
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. A few months before my 40th birthday I had a brilliant idea. To celebrate all those trips around the sun, I would drive I-40 from coast to coast, stopping...
Field Notes: I’m just a jiggle (oh!)
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. I saw a news story the other day about a woman who lost her remote-work job for installing a "jiggler" app on her company laptop. The headline read...