As of 11:30 p.m. ET, about 3,500 customers in Franklin County are without power.
According to FindEnergy.com, an independent organization with no utility or consumer advocacy influence, 3,516 out of 22,756 tracked meters, or roughly 15.4%, were without power in Franklin County.
The outages were for customers of Duke Energy, which serves 11,403 customers in the county.
It will cost considerably more than 50 cents a night, and it won’t come complete with “genuine liquors of the choicest quality” or “delicacies of the market served up in the best style.” But the three newly-opened short-term rentals at the corner of Fourth Street and Avenue C in Apalachicola, known as the Apalachicola Exchange,…
A month ahead of budget time, Sheriff AJ Smith is pushing strongly for raises for the people in his department. And now that the county commissioners have the results of a study they commissioned on pay rates and job classifications, it looks like sheriffs office employees, as well as those who work for other county…
During the week of April 26 through May 2, Officers Nelson, Hartzog, L. McLeod, Johnson II, and Allen observed a commercial vessel trawling while they were on night patrol on Apalachicola Bay in Franklin County. The officers stopped the vessel to conduct a resource and turtle excluder device (TED) inspection, during which the commercial anglers…
A large raise for the school district’s director of finance is stirring up some passions at the school board.
A sizeable boost to the annual salary of Shannon Venable, to $97,185, effective …
The Bay Area Choral Society closed out their 2023-24 season with a giant crescendo that reverberated in the ears and smiles of school. Ed Hogan, a Carrollton, Georgia composer who wrote a commissioned piece for the society about the Forgotten Coast called The Maker’s Song, and Dr. Ian Heming, the society’s pianist, joined Dana Langford,…
Dark sky and cold temperatures didn’t put a damper on Apalachicola’s Arbor Day event at the Jan. 22 Farmers Market.
The city-appointed Tree Committee gave away 84 trees, 36 live oaks, 28
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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.