http://www.marconews.com/staff/tim-aten/<p><strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/timaten">■ Friend me on Facebook</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/NDN_taten/">■ Follow me on Twitter</a></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tim-aten/7/a59/186">■ Look me up on LinkedIn</a></strong></p> <p>As a Naples Daily News columnist, Tim Aten answers readers' questions in his weekly column, "In the Know," and he is a member of the early morning breaking news team on naplesnews.com.</p> <p><em><strong>See a complete archive of "In the Know" at <a href="http://www.naplesnews.com/intheknow">naplesnews.com/intheknow.</a></strong></em></p> <p>Tim was news editor of the Naples Daily News for nearly 10 years and anchored the newspaper's daily news podcasts for two years before leading NDN's online team as multimedia news editor. He also had a daily video interview segment on the former Studio 55 morning news show and can be heard on a variety of voice-over projects.</p> <p>He and his wife, Peggy, left behind Midwestern winters more than 20 years ago to relocate to the Sunshine State. They initially lived in the Florida Keys, where Tim worked as managing editor of the daily Key West Citizen and a weekly, The Reporter, in the Upper Keys.</p> <p>Previously, Tim was city editor for daily newspapers in Ashtabula and Chardon, Ohio, while serving as lead reporter covering the area's nuclear power plant. Not counting his three-year stint as cartoonist for his high school paper, Tim began his newspaper career as the county government reporter for the former Lake County Telegraph in Painesville, Ohio.</p> <p>But Tim was bitten by the radio bug first, beginning his broadcast journalism career in 1985 as a reporter and morning news anchor on WQLS in Painesville, and later a local cable television channel. He previously was a disc jockey for WQLS, WCDN, WKNT, college station WKSR, a college nightclub and numerous social events in northeastern Ohio.</p> <p>Tim earned a bachelor's degree in telecommunications (radio and TV broadcasting) from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, where he co-wrote and co-directed a campus TV comedy show called "To Be Announced."</p> en-ushttp://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/19/464279/Augustina&#39;s A Taste of Chicago, 3300 Davis Blvd., is temporarily closed. The East Naples restaurWed, 19 Jun 2013 09:00:00 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/19/464279/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/18/464283/Pho Dai Loc Vietnamese Cafe opened in April 2013 in Collier Plaza, off Collier Boulevard in Golden GWed, 19 Jun 2013 01:00:00 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/18/464283/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/18/464288/Saladworks plans to open next week in Riverchase Plaza on the northeast corner of U.S. 41 and ImmokaWed, 19 Jun 2013 01:00:00 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/18/464288/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/18/464290/Pizza Fusion is set to open within the next two weeks in The Gateway of Naples shopping center, 2146Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:00:00 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/18/464290/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/16/463915/[img/photos/2013/06/16/gopher_tortoise_crossing_sign_.jpg]Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:41:00 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/16/463915/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/16/463913/[img/photos/2013/06/16/gopher_tortoise_sign_marco_island.jpg]Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:39:00 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/16/463913/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/16/463912/A gopher tortoise crosses Dogwood Drive on Marco Island on June 15, 2013.Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:32:00 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/16/463912/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/16/463523/A home design business park is being built in Naples on the 1.3-acre property stretching from U.S. 4Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:30:40 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/16/463523/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/16/463522/Foundation work has begun on the first phase of a design park in Naples on the 1.3-acre property strSun, 16 Jun 2013 21:30:38 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/16/463522/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/12/462646/L&#39;Orient, a local family-owned Asian restaurant, closed in May 2013 in Naples Bay Resort, 1500 FWed, 12 Jun 2013 09:00:00 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/jun/12/462646/