At a small dinner party Dec. 28 at the Red Pirate Family Grill & Oyster Bar in Eastpoint, the family of Apalachicola’s Buddy Wayne Butler celebrated his 80th birthday.
Atop the cake was emblazoned a photo of Buddy Wayne and his late wife Carolyn, working together in Apalachicola Bay on the oyster boat that they shared.
Afterwards, the kids and the grandkids enjoyed miniature golf.
In a welcome respite from the flurry of this week’s hurricane preparations, the Tate’s Hell 5K and Bay Fest is alive and well and on schedule, as it provides a full day of outdoor adventure this
A divided Franklin County commission has approved a development to construct nine single family homes on 11 platted lots between West Gulf Beach Drive and West Pine Avenue
The plan by developer
Finding life on other planets has long been a goal for scientists around the globe. One UF/IFAS researcher will look to icy ocean worlds as possibly possessing evidence of life in their frozen waters. With a recent $6.4 million grant from NASA, the project team will simulate the vacuum, temperature, and radiation conditions on ocean…
Here is a rolling list of holiday happenings taking place in Franklin County this year.
Know of an event that should be added to this list? Email details to news@franklincounty.news.
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Porch Fest, Apalachicola’s grassroots roaming music festival, is now in its third year, and this Saturday, Oct. 22, it will be the biggest ever.
With 25 bands, 13 porches, plus three stages, all
More than a year after completing renovations at its new office location, the Franklin County Extension staff welcomed the community to celebrate the new digs, The road to completion for the project was long and winding with some unexpected turns but in the end we have a beautiful facility in which to serve the public…
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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.