Weldon Mayor Julia Meacham pulled up in her car at town hall and was pleased.

The walls to the Dickens Hux Awning were tumbling down after the town board approved its demolition last week.

“To me this shows town citizens this board doesn’t like ... eyesores. It needed to be taken down for years. It was a liability for the town,” the mayor said. “We’re trying to promote business to come to Weldon. A cleaner look, it’s putting us in positive position economically.”

The Dickens Hux building is one of two more structures which are scheduled to be demolished this fiscal year, the mayor said. An old funeral home and Masonic lodge which is within eyesight of the Dickens Hux building will be burned down Saturday. “That building should have been burned down a long time ago. It serves no purpose.”

The other building is the Robinson Mill structure beside Frazier’s. “We’ve been giving them time to have them take that down,” Meacham said.

Meacham wants to see a new town library behind town hall where the Dickens Hux building and the old funeral home could be seen.

While critics say there is no money to do the projects the mayor wants to do, Meacham says, “You have to invest in the town and clean it up.”

The mayor has also had renovations done to town hall. “Everyone who walks in the door talks about how it’s opened up the floor space. We’ve rearranged furniture. It reflects a fresh board, a fresh mayor who has new ideas.”

The town hall before the renovations, the mayor said, was a sign of living in the past. “It’s a competitive market and we want to feel we have some advantage of impressing people to do business with us.”