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/may/21/458798/Le Macaron French Pastries opened April 28 near Grace & Shelly's Cupcakes in Mercato in North NaplesTue, 21 May 2013 17:50:29 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/21/458798/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/19/458343/Wise Guys Supper and Comedy Club; 2059 U.S. 41 E. in East Naples, opened April 14 and closed May 11.Mon, 20 May 2013 01:30:00 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/19/458343/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/13/457000/You can't miss the bright yellow trailer for Smokin R&#226;&#8217;s BBQ, which opened in early MarchMon, 13 May 2013 23:15:26 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/13/457000/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/13/456999/Peruzzi's Pizza & Pasta, 4003 Santa Barbara Blvd., at Countryside Plaza in East Naples, closed in eaMon, 13 May 2013 23:15:24 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/13/456999/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/13/456998/Chuck E. Cheese plans to open its first Collier County location in the vacated Linens &#226;&#8216;nMon, 13 May 2013 23:15:23 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/13/456998/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/09/456009/Living Word Family Church, located off Immokalee Road in Golden Gate Estates.Thu, 09 May 2013 16:00:32 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/09/456009/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/08/455693/Starbucks in Granada Shoppes at Immokalee Road and U.S. 41 North in North Naples will close in late Wed, 08 May 2013 09:00:00 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/08/455693/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/08/455694/A new drive-through Starbucks, the only location with the Clover brewing station in Southwest FloridWed, 08 May 2013 09:00:00 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/08/455694/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/07/455669/Restaurant Bonjour opened May 1, 2013, in the former North Naples home of Mimi’s Cooking and Paul’s Wed, 08 May 2013 01:20:00 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/07/455669/http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/07/455664/Joey D's Italian Restaurant opened its second location Tuesday, May 7, 2013, in Brooks Village, the Wed, 08 May 2013 01:12:00 -0000http://www.marconews.com/photos/2013/may/07/455664/