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Columns

  • And so it’s farewell until we meet again

    By TAMMIE BARFIELD

    And I’m sure we will.

    It is with bittersweet emotion that I write this last column as general manager of The Wakulla News.

    Throughout my career I have had some very interesting jobs and have been self-employed as well. Working at The Wakulla News and with this staff has been my favorite so far.

    Being committed to a community through a community newspaper brings with it a lot of great joy and many challenges.

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  • Nurse Judy’s Nook: It’s not always a bad thing growing older

    I’ve written so many columns about the difficulties of growing older – not that I am getting older, Nurse Judy, my vain alter ego, is quick to add – but now I feel I should give a positive message.

    It is true that one’s memory isn’t as sharp as when one was younger, but even that isn’t all bad. Let me explain.

    I am a nurse, not a home economics major, so I have never been good at sewing.

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  • Library News: Aug. 16

    By SCOTT JOYNER
    Library Director

    We are going to begin doing some community outreach by reading to the younger patients at the Wakulla County Health Department each Wednesday morning beginning the first week in September. We’re asking anyone who has children’s books they’d like to donate to leave at the health department or give to the children to take home to please bring them by WCPL.  

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  • Cleaning black powder guns

    By MARJ LAW

    Cleaning black powder guns or those old folk with the dishpan hands.
    “Stop!” says Joe. “Don’t use your regular gun solvents to clean my black powder Kentucky Pistol!”

    And he grabs it to himself like I’m about to murder it.

    “You don’t clean a black powder gun like you do a modern gun,” he continues his lecture. “Black powder and the newer ‘smokeless’ black powders are very corrosive. There’s a different solution for them.”

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  • Remembering Ruth McCallister Davis-High

    By HERB DONALDSON

    The Palaver Tree Theater Company is putting together a small documentary tentatively titled, “The Wakulla 50” in which 50 people, over 50, tell their stories of living and working here.

    I had spoken with Cheryl Creel about the project. She said I should contact “Miss Ruth,” whose connection to Wakulla Springs, among other things, might be worth considering.

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  • Local musicians head out on European tour

    By MADELEINE H. CARR
    Special to The News

    The double bass had to have a new crush-proof case. There were concerns about whether U.S. Customs Service would consider the rosewood in some of the instruments an “illegal” importation on the return trip.

    Overall, preparations for the first European tours of two regional bands that began at the beginning of the year are playing out in Ireland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland this month.

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  • Library News: July 19, 2012

    By SCOTT JOYNER
    Library Director

    I just wanted to spend a couple of minutes bringing you up to date on WCPL acquiring e-books for our patrons to check out to their Kindles, Nooks, etc.

    Wilderness Coast Public Libraries, the library cooperative that we are a part of, has negotiated a deal with the company Overdrive, for its three member libraries to begin this service hopefully in the next couple months at a greatly reduced cost to each library than if we attempted to do it on our own.

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  • Library News: July 12, 2012

    By SCOTT JOYNER
    Library Director

    Our heart goes out to all our patrons affected by Tropical Storm Debby a couple weeks back.  FEMA has dropped off contact information at library for those who need assistance.  They suggest that you go to www.disasterassisstance.gov to apply for FEMA help of to get information.  

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  • When there’s breaking news, go to Wakulla News website

    By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
    editor@thewakullanews.net

    I got a Letter to the Editor on Friday from Rachel Sutz Pienta about the availability of online information from various news sources during Tropical Storm Debby.

    Some news organizations and sources were better than others, she wrote, and went  on to name each website she turned to for news of the storm – area TV stations, newspapers and sites.

    But she never mentioned The Wakulla News and our website, thewakullanews.com.

    So I wrote back to ask her why.

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  • The News also faced challenges with Debby

    By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
    editor@thewakullanews.net

    Tuesdays are deadline days for The Wakulla News, and I usually start Tuesdays pretty early, getting to the office around 6:30 in the morning to get the newspaper out by 7 p.m.

    Last Tuesday, though, I came in to find the electricity in the News office was off.

    I wrote some news items on my laptop, but it became apparent that the electricity wasn’t coming back on anytime soon.

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