Melanie Collins graduates from Florida State
Melanie Collins received her bachelor’s degree in psychology on Friday evening, Aug. 2 from Florida State University at the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center in Tallahassee.
A 2019 graduate of Franklin County High School, Collins is the daughter of Scott Collins and Deborah Collins.
She played college softball at Chipola College in Marianna, and golf at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama before completing her undergraduate education at FSU.
Collins, 23, will be teaching English at Wakulla High School for the 2024-5 school year.
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.