Ozone heads to state tourney Saturday
The county’s Ozone team, for boys ages 11 and 12, will be headed to the state tournament Saturday in Avon Park, near Sebring.
The team, under the direction of Coach Matthew Roberts and assistants Miles King and Jonathan Brown. The team defeated Wewa at districts, but fell 7-6 in extra innings to Port St. Joe. Eventual champ Blountstown decided not to head to state, so Franklin County earned the vacant berth to represent the district.
Pictured in photo are #00 Lake Shiver #3 Easton Raker #6 Jasiah Fleming #7 Brian Lee Taylor #9 Kyler Gilbert #10 Kacen Taylor #11 Micah King #12 Caden Cruse #21 Camden Roberts #22 Bryson Brown #23 Blanton Adair and #38 Trenton Shaw. [ Dixie Youth League | Contributed ]
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.