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.
You don’t get more of a deep lineage in Franklin County’s seafood industry than the royal family that will reign over the 61st annual Florida Seafood Festival this weekend in Apalachicola. The newly crowned Miss Florida Seafood, Franklin County High School senior Olivia Poloronis, has roots in the industry that extend back more than a…
The family of Crystal and Thomas Cooper have released a letter to the community in response to the outpuring of support from the community following the loss of two daughters, and the family’s entire
Bickel journeys to remote Morocco In late November and December, while Morocco was becoming the first African and first Arab nation to reach the World Cup semi-finals, Richard Bickel was taking pictures. Not of the soccer matches, or of the large crowds gathering to watch the games on big screen televisions outdoors. Bickel, a well-seasoned…
People see my Hunker Down byline and ask if Im a Georgia Bulldog fan. Well, no. That is actually a whole nother way of hunkering. And I am certainly not entrenching myself into some kind of super defensive position in readiness to take on a mad neighbor or an insistent door to door life insurance…
China’s communist leaders have clamped down on coverage and commentary of the Winter Olympic games. Ask Dutch correspondent Sjoerd den Daas, who was manhandled by a security guard during a live
The rain held off and a huge crowd filled up Apalachicola Saturday evening, as the annual Independence Eve celebration got back on track. The parade from Lafayette Park, hosted by Franklins Promise Coalition and the Conservation Corps of the Forgotten Coast, was back from 2019 in fine fashion, with lots of golf carts and cyclists,…
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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.