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Why the Anson County Historical Society was originally organized
The author, Steve Bailey, is outreach coordinator at the Anson County Historical Society. The Anson County Historical Society’s main focus starting in 1963 was to preserve the Boggan-Hammond House, which was built in 1796 by Patrick Boggan for his daughter Eleanor...
Three ways to help with this year’s Chamber on the Half Shell event
The author, Shelby Emrich, is president/CEO of the Anson County Chamber of Commerce. The third annual Chamber on the Half Shell, sponsored by the Anson County Chamber of Commerce, will be held from 6-11 p.m. Sept. 28 at Twin Valley Country Club. The evening includes...
A community of makers and doers
The author, John Marek, is executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Some economic developers make a game of collecting letters after their name – CEcD, FM, HLM – but the only ones I want to see after mine are AAS, Actually Accomplishes Stuff*....
Childbirth: Hard. Motherhood: Not hard.
Editor’s note: The author, lawyer Brooke McIntosh Crump, is a mom in Mt. Gilead and writes bi-weekly for the Speckled Paw Times. Today is my son’s fifth birthday. I have spent a portion (albeit small) of every day since the week after I brought him home from the...
Letter to the editor: Crossing the bridge is a T-bone waiting to happen
Photo (courtesy A Different Perspective): A barge and crane being moved into position to work on the bridge to Stanly County. The intersection that the author writes about is in the upper righthand corner. Speckled Paw Coffee is giving the new bridge joining...
How, and why, the Democratic Party endorsed Hinson
By Brooke Crump I’m the Montgomery County Democratic Party chair. Before you scroll onto the next article because you are a member of a different political party or you’re tired of hearing about politics in general, let me say that I know that we don’t all vote the...
Library’s summer reading program under way
The following is a press release from the Montgomery County Public Library. The Montgomery County Public Library is conducting a reading program for Pre-K to adults through Aug. 31, and participants have a chance to win all sorts of prizes. You can register online...
Scholarships awarded
Friends In Focus awarded college scholarships this year to the following Montgomery County high school seniors: Julius Wilson received the Susie Leake Little Scholarship for $1,000. Julius ranked 18th in his class at West Montgomery High School with a weighted GPA of...
#momwithbigdreams: Have the courage to be disliked
Editor’s note: The author, lawyer Brooke McIntosh Crump, is “a mom with big dreams” in Mt. Gilead and writes bi-weekly for the Speckled Paw Times. I have a friend. She’s thoughtful and kind. Her husband shares many of her admiring qualities. I have never met anyone...
Police chief: More public security cameras on the way
After a couple of strange incidents downtown over the weekend – someone fired multiple shots from a BB gun (or something similar) at Brown’s Hardware’s windows, and the glass door at A&J’s Hunting-n-Fishing was smashed – the town’s police department has been...
Part 7: It is finished. Now, come see us!
Editor’s note: Jeff and Linda Cathcart recently bought the old Pee Dee Presbyterian Church outside Mt. Gilead and are converting it into their home. Through weekly installments, they’re updating Speckled Paw readers on their progress; below is the sixth and final part...
Part 6: The plan – to preserve, donate or repurpose – worked!
Editor’s note: Jeff and Linda Cathcart recently bought the old Pee Dee Presbyterian Church outside Mt. Gilead and are converting it into their home. Through weekly installments, they’re updating Speckled Paw readers on their progress; below is the sixth and final part...