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.
After winning six of their last seven games, the Franklin County Lady Seahawks softball team is now ranked eighth of the state, one slot behind arch-rival Liberty County in Class 1A.Sophomore Sarah Ham is leading Class 1A with 38 runs batted in, and with 118 strikeouts. Sophomore Ryan Brown is batting .604 for the third…
Franklin County commissioners on Tuesday morning put an emphatic kibosh, at least for the time being, to a nearly two-year long effort by St. George Island activists to incorporate as a town. By a unanimous vote, commissioners rejected a request from a member of the working group that advocates for incorporation to place a non-binding…
The Seahawks varsity baseball team have been handling the month of March like lions, with no intention of going out like lambs, as they raised their record to 7-1 with three straight wins, including
The state Judicial Qualifications Commission said earlier this month that a North Florida judge has resigned, ending a case about alleged misconduct. The commission, which investigates accusations against judges and makes disciplinary recommendations to the Florida Supreme Court, said in a filing that it was dismissing charges against Liberty County Judge Kenneth Hosford. “The basis…
TALLAHASSEE — After years of legal battling, the U.S. Supreme Court last week unanimously rejected a lawsuit in which Florida argued Georgia has used too much water in a river system shared by the states. The 12-page ruling dismissed the lawsuit that Florida filed in 2013 after the oyster fishery collapsed in Franklin Countys Apalachicola…
They dont usually make uniforms for the Franklin County Sheriffs Office in size 5s.
But Blauer did, and Blue Line outfitted it with all the patches and enhancements, including Deputy
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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.