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KAYDEE TUFF

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About KAYDEE TUFF

Biography

Kaydee Tuff was a polite 19-year-old college student when she married into the newspaper business nearly 30 years ago. After a short stint as a politically correct kindergarten teacher in North Dakota, she joined Tuff Publications, Inc., where she evolved into an edgy, thick-skinned newspaper columnist, reporter and editor for a number of news publications in Minnesota and Florida.

She currently serves as Editor of the Collier Citizen, a weekly community newspaper serving Collier County.

AWARDS:

■ 1984: Best Local News Story from the Minnesota Newspaper Association.

■ 2009: Under her editorship, the Collier Citizen received first place in General Excellence in the Florida Press Association Better Weekly Newspaper Contest.

FEATURES:

■ Scratch Paper is a column devoted to the rantings of a working wife and mother trying to keep pace with a world that waits for no one.

■ R U Better is a unique video series which pits local community leaders in fun competitions with local youth. Among those are Naples Mayor Bill Barnett's tricycle race with Fun Time preschoolers, Collier Sheriff Kevin Rambosk's tug-o-war with third graders and Collier County Commissioner Tom Henning milking a goat with local 4-Hers.

■ See all R U Better videos

SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES:

■ Friend me on Facebook

■ Kaydeetuff.com

■ Send me your photos

■ Send me your story

■ Got an R U Better challenge?

KAYDEE TUFF

Position History

  • Editor - Collier Citizen
    04/01/2005 - 02/26/2010

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Recent Work

  • Seton students celebrate Thanksgiving with Feast Day event Published 11/19/2010 at 1:44 p.m.

    St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic School celebrated Thanksgiving early with a Feast Day, Nov. 19, 2010. Students assisted in creating a meal that fed the entire school, visitors and the senior class from St. John Neumann High School.

  • Middle schoolers learning life skills at St. Elizabeth Seton Published 09/07/2010 at 12:49 p.m.

    A stitch in time saves nine, or at least a button or two. Eighth graders at St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic School are in stitches over their new Life Skills course. “Last week, the button fell off my uniform shirt. This ...

  • Golden Gate Fire district board - three or five? Voters to decide Published 02/24/2010 at 5:26 p.m.

    Would you campaign for a political office that may not exist? That will be the reality for some Golden Gate Fire Commission candidates as the district attempts to expand from three to five members this fall.

  • KAYDEE TUFF: Scratch Paper - Mama Hokie’s good advice Published 02/24/2010 at 4:40 p.m.

    BEER WORMS If you drove the Tamiami Trail from Naples to Ochopee in the late 1980s, you couldn’t miss the hand-painted sign out front of a run-down shack across the trail from the National Park Service offices, formerly the infamous ...

  • He’s got the right frame of mind and business - Art & Frame Depot Published 02/24/2010 at 3:33 p.m.

    Jim Davenport gets the big picture. Of course he gets some small ones as well as a few photos, jerseys and even instruments at his frame shop, Art & Frame Depot on Shirley Street in Naples.

  • VIDEO: North Naples' first Bald Eagle Scout Published 02/10/2010 at 5:43 p.m.

    North Naples Boy Scout Tyler Paine is not only an Eagle Scout, he has the unique distinction of being a bald Eagle Scout. The 18-year-old recently celebrated his Eagle Award among family and friends of Troop 2001 during a Court ...

  • Collier County puts government pork on dinner tables Published 01/13/2010 at 7:09 p.m.

    Collier County Commissioners want to get rid of some government pork and put it on people’s dinner tables. On Tuesday, commissioners unanimously voted to allow area youth to hunt wild hogs on the county-owned Pepper Ranch property, rather than hire ...

  • Collier commissioner: Let hunters kill, use meat from wild hogs in Pepper Ranch Updated 01/11/2010 at 5:14 a.m.

    Collier County Commissioner Jim Coletta wants to get rid of some government pork and put it on people’s dinner tables. After reading about Conservation Collier’s plan to pay the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) $16,000 a year to catch, kill ...

  • Golden Gate-North Naples fire merger talk turns to tax discussion Published 01/08/2010 at 7:42 p.m.

    For the second time in nearly five years, Golden Gate and North Naples fire board members sat down to discuss a possible merger, this time at the North Naples administration headquarters. The recent meeting fell far short of the attendance ...

  • VIDEO: All entries in the Collier Citizen Photo Contest, "Inspiration" Published 01/04/2010 at 2:37 p.m.

    All entries in the Collier Citizen Photo Contest, "Inspiration"

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