by Wadesboro | Aug 16, 2022 | Wadesboro
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...
by Wadesboro | Aug 10, 2022 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. A grocery store near my house employs a man with a medical condition similar to that which afflicted Stephen Hawking. He uses a motorized wheelchair, is...
by Wadesboro | Aug 3, 2022 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Rural Ohio was a relatively safe place to grow up in the ’60s and ’70s. Sure, there was petty crime like shoplifting, and occasionally one of...
by Wadesboro | Jul 27, 2022 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Fifty years ago this week, one of the most iconic films in the history of American cinema debuted in theaters. “Deliverance” put Burt Reynolds...
by Wadesboro | Jul 20, 2022 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. In July 1980, I received an invitation in the mail. It was from someone named Rod Smith, who introduced himself as my residence hall adviser for the upcoming...
by Wadesboro | Jul 12, 2022 | Wadesboro
This is John Marek’s seventh and final Field Notes “Summer of Sustainability” article focusing on sustainable living, community agriculture and food security. Anyone who lived through the Great Depression as anything older than a toddler is pushing 100 years old....
