by Wadesboro | Oct 8, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. There is no shortage of literary works that wax rhapsodic about the changing of seasons in the garden, so anything I write has probably been written before,...
by Wadesboro | Oct 1, 2020 | Wadesboro
Amanda Prouty is launching a new weekly feature, Stories of Anson, in which she tells us about some of the interesting people who live here and “make this small town better and a wonderful place to live.” Her debut subject? A very logical choice: herself! I’m...
by Wadesboro | Oct 1, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. The swing set of my youth was painted blaze orange; owing, I’m certain, to my father’s penchant for buying his paint from the CLEARANCE bin at the...
by Wadesboro | Sep 24, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Around this time last year, I decided to try “technology free” Sundays for a month. The idea was that, for September, I would completely unplug...
by Wadesboro | Sep 17, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. Last Friday, many people took to social media describing where they were that fateful morning 19 years ago. Most Americans alive that day recall, with great...
by Wadesboro | Sep 10, 2020 | Wadesboro
The author, John Marek, is a writer and executive director of the Anson Economic Development Partnership. On Labor Day, I drove out to the new Riverbend Village development at the intersection of I-485 and N.C. 16, northwest of Charlotte. Twenty years ago, that area...
