Carrabelle will wrap up a week’s worth of fireworks along the Forgotten Coast Saturday night, with a display of pyrotechnics set to go off at dark-thirty on July 6.
The show had been originally scheduled for Friday, July 5 but had to be postponed after a glitch developed with the display.
City officials said the fireworks company learned earlier in the evening on Friday that there was a problem with the equipment that was to be used to ignite the fireworks. An attempt was made to find the needed equipment prior to the start of the show, but the company was forced to postpone the show after logistics could not be worked out.
The fireworks will be set off at dark-thirty Saturday night, and can be viewed from all along the waterfront.
Members of the Bay Area Choral Society will travel on Friday, Nov. 29, to New York City to perform at Carnegie Hall. The group will participate in two half-days of rehearsals and clinics on Saturday and Sunday with the performance on Monday, Dec. 2. The society will be part of a 200-member choir and will…
By Gill Autrey Guest Columnist When I was growing up, a condition I never quite attained, we lived in the country between a cow pasture and a pecan grove. We didn’t have many neighbors, so I talked to cows a lot. That’s how I obtained most of my common sense. On the corner of our…
Apalachicola will be getting a historical marker to honor the legacy of Moses Roper, a leading 19th century abolitionist and former fugitive slave who authored a best-selling narrative that included description of his experiences while serving as a steward on a steamboat plying the Apalachicola River. The 4-1 vote by city commissioners, with Despina George…
In 1980, because I was an idealistic conservative eager to do my bit for democracy, I volunteered for my local Republican Party as a poll watcher. When polls closed, election officials asked us to
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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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.