Opinion

 The most fertile source of insight is hindsight and you never know how far you’ve come until you look back on where you’ve been. During the last few years I’ve had numerous opportunities to look back over my progress, sometimes it’s with humor, sometimes it’s with pride and always with amazement over how I thought issues would turn out and how things really unfolded. 

County budget time is my least favorite time of year. 

I would like to respond to media reports that the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is selling your personal information.

"All political power is inherent in the people." 

Article I, Section 1, Florida State Constitution

"All meetings of any collegial public body of the executive branch of state government or of any collegial public body of a county, municipality, school district, or special district, at which official acts are to be taken or at which public business of such body is to be transacted or discussed, shall be open and noticed to the public..."

 Q. A judgment has been entered against me, but i didn’t know about it. Can they do that?

 The members of Cedar Key Volunteer Fire & Rescue would like to send a big “thank you” to all who helped make our military recognition project a huge success. When we set out to do this project, we wanted to make an impact on the community as they crossed the Number 4 Bridge. We had no idea just how big of an impact it would have. 

First, we would like to say thank you to the men and women of the Cedar Key area who have enlisted in the military to help protect our freedom. We are extremely proud of you all. 

Three years ago I was hired by Tarmac as a receptionist, working part time in their Inglis office. I was already work- ing one part-time job, so the extra work with Tarmac was really helpful. It allowed me to work full time, which is hard to do in this economy since there just aren't many good jobs available.

My job with Tarmac was even more important when I got laid off from my other job two years ago. Knowing the financial difficulty I would have only working part time, Tarmac increases my hours to make up for part of my lost hours.

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words… so, I’ll try to keep this short (and sweet!).

If you’ve looked around town on Monday mornings before Waste Pro has had a chance to make their rounds there are some amazing sites to see. As reported last month, nearly 75% of occupied households are actively participating in the new trash/recycling program and we have already seen decline in the monthly tonnage of trash hauled off the island….. but, we’ve still got a ways to go.

In 2006 I had lived in Cedar Key for almost a year and hadn’t recycled anything. I’m embarrassed to admit it today, but I didn’t even know about the trailers. I lived with my retired father who really couldn’t be bothered and, like most children do, followed suit. Then I met the man who would turn out to be my future husband.