Keyboard Klatterings
- 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
- An Obligation
- By Tim Croft
- There is no doubt you have to feel a great deal of sorrow and outrage when you travel this county after a good rain.
Stormwater management seems like a foreign concept to the detriment of ordinary folks.
Travel over to St. Joseph Shores and the... Full story
- A Fish Story
- By Tim Croft
- Boat captain Billy Daniels has one whale of a fish tale to tell.
That story will start for the Alabama man will start during the summer, when Daniels and some fishing companions were angling off St. George Island.
They landed the mother of all... Full story
- Ms. Bea
- By Tim Croft
- There is an old adage about making a great first impression.
For the past 10 years Mexico Beach could not have had an ambassador more suited to providing that impression than Bea Sheeder, or as I called her Ms. Bea.
Ms. Bea passed away last week... Full story
- Football Follies
- By Tim Croft
- This will read like sour grape juice has been spilled over the page.
These words will read as if fed by the desire to take the ball and go home.
But in Florida high school football, the BCS thrives and isn’t that a three-letter name in... Full story
- Gathering on the Water
- By Tim Croft
- This is an important weekend for all those connected to the water.
From the hotel clerk who keeps a job from the anglers coming to the area, to commercial interests, to recreational fishermen. This weekend, from 10 a.m. to noon, you are asked to... Full story
