Latest News

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  I was intrigued by my fellow Paw columnist Beck Dill's piece last week on the "friendly" corn snake. Snakes and I go way back. Indeed, some of my very earliest...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  In the third episode of the eighth season of the television series "The Office," the warehouse crew quits after winning a shared million dollar lotto prize,...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  A couple of weeks after my wife and I moved onto our first home, an old farmhouse midway between Bowling Green and Perrysburg, Ohio, I got up, went to the...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  It was traditional-ish for students at my high school to dress in costume for Halloween. More accurately, it was traditional for kids who were popular enough to...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  Late night, a week ago Sunday, I watched Game 3 of the American League Division Series. The Boston Red Sox, a team I have been a fan of since Carlton Fisk's epic...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  What are you afraid of? It is a question that has haunted our kind since we first began gathering around communal fires in hopes of keeping the unknown at bay....

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  I grew up in a small "company" town in Ohio. Gypsum had about 200 residents, most of whom worked at the wallboard plant a half-mile down the road from the center...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  I love a good documentary, especially one that details a scientist or researcher attempting to prove a weird or controversial theory. In 1972, I convinced my...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  Considering this column is published in a coffee house newsletter, it is perhaps a little strange that I have never written about coffee. The truth is,...

The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership.  I don't know if students today still diagram sentences, but I know I spent a disproportionate amount of time in seventh grade reading class drawing little...