Keyboard Klatterings
- Cause for a pause for applause
- As we took note of in our year-end roundup of the top stories of 2011, the past year has been a roller coaster for Gulf County Schools.
And, yet, somehow, those schools continue to perform at a high level.
Grades of A and B, a ranking under a new s... Full story
- Remembering Dr. Joe Collins
- “Cheers.”
That was the last words I heard from Dr. Joe Collins, his familiar greeting or signature sign-off.
He had stopped by while his lovely wife, Suzanne, and mother-in-law, simply “Mom,” were shopping for groceries and ... Full story
- A Lesson in a Life
- Next week as the nation pauses to celebrate the life of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is worth considering his ideals that lay well beyond that of a man who led a movement toward equal rights for all races.
King was much more than a civil rights ... Full story
- Putting the power in people’s hands
- Tim Croft
- As international trends go, 2011 was the year ordinary people stood up and were counted seeking real sway over the governance of their lives.
From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movement, events last year were hued in the color of the les... Full story
- Tidings of the season
- Tim Croft
- Kids do say, and write, the darndest things.
That is on full display inside the pages of this week’s edition of The Star.
Inside, children have submitted their letters to Santa Claus, or Clause, depending on preference, providing gentle instr... Full story
- Intentions and perceptions
- Tim Croft
- The decision by Port St. Joe commissioners last week not to stand in the way of the creation of the Gulf Coast Hope Center was soundly based.
The application for a business license to operate the center from an office on the property of 5 Star Paint... Full story
- Removing ‘public’ from public safety
- On Dec. 13 the Mexico Beach City Council is scheduled to take up a possible switch to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office for law enforcement services.
Moving away from the city’s police force has been an exploration, a “fact-finding&r... Full story
- Thanksgiving Hopes
- In some ways Thanksgiving 2011 seems not much different from the Pilgrims’ landing on a craggy slab of Massachusetts coastline long ago.
The Pilgrims of four centuries ago were facing a world of which they knew nothing – just as the curr... Full story
- School house lessons on economic development
- There are lessons to be taken away from the first new school to break ground in the county in some four decades.
Last week North Florida Child Development turned dirt with shovel, at least symbolically, on its new South Gulf County center off Field ... Full story
- Finding the path to thanks
- My path to understanding has had some turns.
What young boy didn’t covet ownership or the chance to play Army, whether with friends outdoors or within the coziness of your room, the “soldiers” measuring mere inches.
I sure did, wi... Full story
