Anson County News

An employee in the custodial department at Anson High School has resigned, after an investigation into a student's claims of sexual harassment.

The General Assembly has finished its first full week of this session. I am very pleased to report House Bill 966 was passed, reversing the change in pay dates for teachers.

Representatives from Burnsville Learning Center Viney Daniels, Elsie White and Carol Smith appeared before the Anson County Board of Commissioners during a public hearing Tuesday night, June 16, to ask for county funding of the center, which provides various services and programs to children and adults.

As Governor Bev Perdue, a Democrat, and the Republican-controlled General Assembly do battle over the budget in Raleigh, Anson County Schools leadership waits to find out what implications the 2012-13 budget will have on students locally.

On Saturday, May 26, John Green with Anson Sign Co. installed the first name plate on new welcome signs that are being constructed at the eastern, western, northern and southern borders of the county.

Things are heating up around Wadesboro as the annual Summer Jam concert series rolls in.

In the 2012-13 budget she unveiled last week, Gov. Bev Perdue proposed funds to restore the deep and unnecessary education cuts the Republican-controlled General Assembly passed last year.

Michael Maye was the speaker for Anson County's Memorial Day Ceremony at the Anson County Courthouse on Monday, May 30.

Since the announcement that Anson County was starting a recycling program in December, the response has been overwhelming, said Sam Dawkins, solid waste manager and recycling coordinator.

For about half an hour on a sunny, hot Memorial Day holiday Monday, a handful of Anson County citizens gathered on the town square in uptown Wadesboro to remember those who paid the ultimate price for America's freedom.

Earlier this month, crews with SRM, Inc., began work on replacing the sidewalks around the Anson County Courthouse.

Anson County's unemployment rate for the month of March decreased by 0.1 percent to 11.0 percent, according to statistics released Friday by the North Carolina Department of Commerce's Labor and Economic Analysis Division.

Representative Larry Kissell visited with students at Anson High School and Anson New Technology High School on Thursday, May 24.

Tauarious Dontae Hudson, 17, of Wadesboro, was arrested June 7 for one felony count of possession with intent to sell or distribute marijuana, one felony count of maintaining a vehicle for a controlled substance and one misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia.

Born in Anson County, N.C. on November 18, 1928, he was a son of the late Rubin A. and Angela Carpenter Wright.

On Monday, May 21, at 10:56 a.m., deputies were responding to a possible breaking and entering when one officer met a vehicle matching the suspect vehicle.

Anson County Sheriff's Deputies have charged three individuals with breaking and entering a home in the Lilesville area after the homeowner returned home and saw the suspects run from the house.

This photo, from a surveillance video, shows the suspect in the larceny of a golf cart, which was stolen from Griffin's Farm in the White Store area sometime between late Dec.

Conflict between the Anson County Arts Council and the town of Wadesboro over a loan still shows little sign of being resolved without a threatened lawsuit.

Things are heating up around Wadesboro as the annual Summer Jam concert series rolls in.