Keyboard Klatterings
- Welcome to the Neighborhood
- By Tim Croft
- Given all the ink and paper devoted to its arrival on Monday we would be remiss not to extend a welcome from the community to Sacred Heart Hospital.
We are glad you’re here. We hope your stay is a long, healthy and vibrant one.
This has been... Full story
- Support for Life’s Curveballs
- Tim Croft
- Something strange happened to Joann Gallagher after her husband passed away about five months ago.
Her patients at Quest Diagnostics in Port St. Joe, where she is one of the top painless needle-wielders one can find, came to provide solace.
And... Full story
- Bunco for Books
- Tim Croft
- Sometime ago in this space I considered the consequences of state budget cuts on the local libraries.
I wondered what would a community be without books and apparently we could soon find out as the Port St. Joe Library no longer has funds for... Full story
- Water Wars
- Tricked you.
Probably thought this was going to be about the marathon “negotiations” concerning the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River system and the circles the states of Florida, Georgia and Alabama have danced for decades without... Full story
- Supporting Sports
- By Tim Croft
- This Friday will offer something unique to the scholastic female athletes in the school district.
The organization Women Athletes Assisting Women Athletes (WASWA) will conduct its third annual Young Women Athletes Conference.
The conference will... Full story
- Distracted to Death
- You never even saw me.
You never saw my vehicle.
You never heard my horn, paid no attention to my hand signals that hardly represented a friendly greeting.
I know this because you never looked up.
Never raised your eyes from what was in your... Full story
- Shattering Lives
- By Tim Croft
- As a member of the Florida Press Corps for a time in the 1990’s I had the unique opportunity to encounter many men and women and become educated on a variety of issues facing the state and the country.
One of those men was former U.S. Sen.... Full story
- A Lesson in a Life
- By Tim Croft
- Next week the nation pauses to celebrate the life of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and more importantly the ideals for which he stood.
How difficult it seems now to look in the rearview mirror and consider a Birmingham jail cell or a march from... Full story
- The People who shaped a Year
- By Tim Croft
- For me it always comes down to a census of the people.
As a curious, if sometimes too cynical, reporter, taking stock of the people who have shaped your year is too often a case of counting who is gone.
For example, John Mattox, who was described... Full story
- Searching for Folks – and their boats
- By Tim Croft
- Don Minchew wants you.
If you own a boat, have knowledge of Lake Wimico or St. Joseph Bay, Minchew would like to enlist you in the ranks of one of the finest volunteer organizations in the county.
When there is a search to be made, an individual... Full story
