Lilesville News

For years, Anson County has been working to implement a recycling program, an initiative that became more urgent on Oct.

The statistics are soberinga 'A one in three adults over age 25 in Anson County is functionally illiterate.

SPCC employees watch as the awning automatically extends from the new Job Ready bus.

Earl Huntley of Lilesville was one of a handful of donors who turned out for the American Red Cross blood drive at First Presbyterian Church in Wadesboro on Wednesday, Nov.

Former Wadesboro Police Chief Bobby Usrey was elected to the town council on Election Day Tuesday.

A home on Fenton Street, Rockingham, was robbed on Sept. 19 by someone who took $475 cash and prescription Percocet.

The Anson Record's Golden Football has been been found but the winner of the $500 prize is still unknown.

Kari Burriss, Jenny Wood and Lindsay Knopp stand proudly by the windows they decorated in the Belk building in uptown Wadesboro, across from the Anson County Courthouse.

Don Franklin Teal, 35, of Lilesville is one of numerous suspects recently arrested in Anson County on drug charges.

The Dodge car driven by Paul Edwards Spencer of Lilesville was hit in the passenger side and rolled three times in an accident on Highway 74 Sunday, July 19.

The filing deadline for municipal elections passed at noon Friday. Several incumbents chose to file for re-election to their seats, but a few notable town council members opted not to run again.

Before the festivities at the 17th annual Lilesville World Championship Rodeo got under way last weekend, Drake Phillips of Morven got the chance to ride a mechanical bull, something his mother Ginger said he'd been looking forward to for some time.

Thursday afternoon, July 2, the residents in Morven got to see first- hand the a oeNew Gang in Town.a This new gang already has many members who like to dress alike and who sometimes even talk in their own code.

When property tax collection becomes a problem for some municipalities, the state recommends they go to a higher power for help: The county.

A motion from the June 4 Board of Elections meeting that would have relocated some voting locations around Anson died at the board's June 18 meeting.

Last week, the Wadesboro and Lilesville communities were rocked by the untimely death of an 18-year-old Anson High School senior, just weeks before graduation.