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Highland Community Center celebrates the holidays
By Earl Leake The Highland Community Center welcomed the holiday season with its annual Christmas banquet Saturday night, highlighted by the longstanding fashion show. The master of ceremonies, Beverly Harris, doubled as a standup comic and she kept the audience...
#ShopLocal: ‘You eat with your eyes first’
By Emily Granholm Wadesboro has a new catering business, Milestone Full Service Catering, established in 2014 by Chad and Lilly Fowler. Originally from Maryland, they moved to Anson County this past April and purchased a beautiful home in Wadesboro. They’ve worked in...
Anson County once had a Florian post office
Editor’s note: The author, Steve Bailey, is outreach coordinator at the Anson County Historical Society. Research for this article was compiled by Timothy Guy Martin in September 2019. He collaborated with Kenneth David Martin, both being direct descendants of James...
Field notes: Broadband’s not just for horses
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. The county where I worked prior to coming to Anson in 2016 was really two completely different places. The southern part was a suburb of Charlotte where an acre of land sold...
Press release: Man charged with murder in Mt. Gilead
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 11, 2019 A Massachusetts man has been arrested and charged with first degree murder Wednesday morning following an investigation at a residence on East Second Avenue. Just after 8:30 p.m., on Tuesday, December 10, 2019, Mount...
Christmas memories: ‘I wish I could go back and listen to our parents’ voices once again’
By Phyllis Story Strider Christmas Eve any year at Mamma and Daddy's house in Mt. Gilead was always a hectic experience. As family started to arrive, each bringing their own assigned dishes of food, the aromas would fill the kitchen. The turkey was done and ready to...
Field Notes: Unemployment vs. unenjoyment
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. For the first two years of my college career, I attended Ohio University. OU was notable in the day because it adhered to a “quarter” schedule while most schools had...
Barn Blast helps kids take off
By Emily Granholm PHOTO: Caroline Goins, left, and her team at the Anson County Partnership for Children. This week Paw barista Emily Granhom met with Caroline Goins, the executive director of Anson County Partnership for Children, which has the mission of making...
County’s first black lawyer made the National Bar Association’s Hall of Fame
Editor’s note: The author, Steve Bailey, is outreach coordinator at the Anson County Historical Society. John Hamlin Rennick Sr., who was born in Whitmire Township of Newberry County, S.C., on Aug. 24, 1915, became the first African-American attorney in Anson County...
Field Notes: Brush up and down and avoid the Triangle of Death
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Maybe things have changed in the 40 years since I last roamed the halls of Port Clinton High School, or perhaps your experience was different, but for my money health...
Nature hates plastic bags. We should, too.
Here’s a paper our very own Abby Thompson, ace barista, wrote for her English class at Sandhills Community College. Let’s talk about a plastic bag named Gary. Gary was put into action inside of a Walmart to carry some soda. Later that night he would end up in a trash...
#ShopLocal: Take a deep breath at Indie Studios
By Emily Granholm Do you ever have those moments when you need to be creative but there always seems to be an excuse? Well not anymore. Check out the cool space Dawn McElroy has created at Indie Studios. Dawn, creative director, opened Indie Studios in August 2017...