While the government shutdown in Washington and the state budget impasse in Raleigh involve different actors and effects, there is a common denominator: the extent to which debates about public ...

WADESBORO — At 3:59 a.m., Deputy M. Martin received a call from communications explaining a female caller was reporting her son was knocking out windows in the neighborhood. At the scene, law ...

ANSON COUNTY — Friends of the Anson County Animal Shelter volunteer Chad Phifer expressed his displeasure with how county leaders have chosen to proceed with decision-making for animal control service ...

ANSON COUNTY — County Manager Leonard Sossoman introduced renewing the county’s contract with the Department of Motor Vehicles during his manager’s report Tuesday, sharing a letter he received from ...

ANSON COUNTY — The Anson County Sheriff’s Office, Polkton Police, Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, Rockingham Police and NCSHP Aviation Unit were involved in an active search Sunday night around Hwy.

Correction: This article incorrectly refers to Anson County’s Planning Director as “Zack Almond” when speaker is Nick Addison who is the planning director for Anson County. The Anson Record regrets ...

ANSON COUNTY — On August 13, Darryl Landis Simon, 60, of Airport Road in Wadesboro, was arrested by Union County Sheriff’s Office deputies at a residence on Oakwood Lane in Indian Trail, NC, according ...

ANSON COUNTY — President of Friends of the Anson County Animal Shelter, a non-profit organization, Christine Morton, updated the board of commissioners earlier this month on the animal shelter. Morton ...

ANSON COUNTY — In a County Commissioner meeting earlier this month, Finance Director Holly Berry informed commissioners the county was down roughly $14 million in a twelve-month period. During the ...

ANSON COUNTY — In an email first released by Sheriff Scott Howell exclusively to the Anson Record, Wadesboro Town Manager Wiley Ross Jr. wrote to County Manager Len Sossoman the Wadesboro Police ...

ANSON COUNTY — “Anson is a low income/crime area and this gym will be a major change for Anson County,” says owner Shannon Spencer Pickett about her new low cost gym located at 120 West Wade Street in ...

LILESVILLE — At 9:15 a.m., Sgt. W. Jordan responded to property on Ravine Rd. following a report of a blue in color Dodge van entering the property on two recent occasions. On one of these trespassing ...