BY MARCY SHORTUSE - We’ve been in Out of Time. We’ve been the focus of Hoot. Now we’ve had American Pickers.

The show that began on the History Channel in early 2010 visited Whidden’s Marina this week, and seemed to enjoy their time here.

BY MARCY SHORTUSE - Dead mullet washed ashore and into local waterways in the last two weeks were more than likely not killed by commercial fisherman.

BY MARCY SHORTUSE - You’ve been hearing a lot of talk about the one-way traffic pattern that will begin at the south bridge on January 22. However, as of last Monday drivers might have been confused as they sat at the south bridge, watching a flag man direct one-way traffic.

BY ALICE GORMAN - Have you noticed an attractive, smiling, white-haired man walking around town wearing a long-sleeve, button-down shirt with a tie? Really? A tie on the streets of Boca Grande?
That man is Jon Bednerik, the newly-appointed executive director of the Johann Fust Library Foundation.