John Hurayt, a visitor from New Port Richey to Apalachicola’s Chapman Botanical Gardens last weekend, was delighted to discover that one of the century plants is about to bloom, since the central stalk was rising as high as 25 feet or so, indicating that the yellow blossoms should appear within several weeks. Native to Texas and Mexico, the agave americana flowers just once in its 10 to 30 year life span, after which it dies. It will, however, produce adventitious shoots from the base, which will allow its growth.
Featured last weekend in downtown Apalachicola was a two-day “Game of Bones” as the canines ruled the continent of Westeros and its Seven Kingdoms, the lands featured in the hit series “Game of Thrones.” The 14th annual Apalachicola Mardi Gras Barkus Parade and Street Festival, for the first time stretched over two days, was just…
The Apalachicola Farmers Market is Saturday, June 28 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET at the Mill Pond Pavilion at the end of Market Street. For more info email [email protected].
Franklin County played host this week, from April 30 through May 2, to the District 4 tournament in Class 1A FHSAA girls softball. Liberty County (16-6) is the op seed, with Franklin County (15-10) as the #2 seed, Wewahitchka (12-11) #3, Blountstown (17-7) #4, Port St. Joe 97-15) #5 and Bozeman (9-11) #6. On Monday…
My dad was a blue-collar good guy, a bit rough and gruff, but that’s how he’d grown up, up north. He was Richard LaFleur, so he and my mom Maggie renamed me Richard (I’d been Raymond Franklin Veilleux until they adopted me in 1945 as a war-baby infant, maybe illegit). Dad fought in World War…
The Camp Gordon Johnston World War II Museum will celebrate the 29th annual Camp Gordon Johnston Day Veterans Parade on Saturday, March 9, starting at 10:45 a.m. ET in Carrabelle. The parade is planned especially to honor the nation’s remaining World War II veterans as well as to salute all veterans from that war to…
Over the past week, the red tide organism Karenia brevis was detected in 85 samples collected from Florida’s Gulf Coast. In Northwest Florida over the past week, K. brevis was observed at background concentrations in Franklin County. Bloom concentrations (>100,000 cells/liter) were present in 21 samples, offshore of Pinellas, Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee and Collier…
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.
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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.