An eel in the ace parking lot of Apalachicola’s Ace Hardware. [ Cecilia Carter | Contributed ]
Helpers work on Thursday morning to prepare Rose’s Botanicals in downtown Apalachicola for the storm. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]
Trinity Episcopal Church’s Rev. Stephen Pecot appears on the Weather Channel, as seen from a TV in an evacuee’s hotel room in Dothan, Alabama. [ Elizabeth Perkins | Contributed ]
The Eastpoint shoreline, just before the storm. [ Angela Parks | Contributed ]
A look at flooding on St. George Island. [ Teresa Bartlett | Contributed ]
A washed-up fish under a house on St. George Island. [ Martha Cox | Contributed ]
A boardwalk on the bay side in The Plantation on St. George Island. [ Myles Cadwallader | Contributed ]
Damage to Cape San Blas Road, not far from the Stumphole. [ GCSO | Contributed ]
Flooding on Cape San Blas [ Christina and Callie Clayton | Contributed ]
Gulf County residents fill sandbags on Knowles Avenue in advance of the pending storm. [ Mary Akin | The Star ]
Storm clouds loom Wednesday before the hurricane. [ Mary Akin | The Star ]
The CVS in Port St. Joe is all boarded up on Wednesday. [ Mary Akin | The Star ]
For the most part, Hurricane Helene’s winds spared the Forgotten Coast, but her rains were not so forgiving.
People heeded the warnings, and boarded up their homes and buildings, and mainly got the heck out of Dodge.
But the aftermath was a lot of soggy ground, and flooded first floors.
Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc, has announced a strategic partnership with Royal IHC to design and construct a highly automated medium-class hopper dredge for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This state-of-the-art vessel, contracted for the Department of Defense, is slated for delivery in 2027, and will be constructed at Eastern’s Allanton and Port St. Joe…
Today is the day after Veterans Day. I sure hope that you took some time out of your day to think what that day means. For those men and women who served our county and made …
Triggerfish are being caught in 80 to 100 feet of water with a double drop rig using squid. Bonita are also being caught pulling a Rapala X-Rap 12 and Rapala Husky Magnum 15 . Red grouper are being caught on bonita strips also using a double drop rig made with 60-pound mono and a 6/0…
The red grouper and triggerfish have been doing really good in 90 to 180 feet of water over high relief wrecks. With amberjack season open, reports have been coming in as well. Live hardtails are the baits to use, look for them around wrecks as well. Just a reminder, red snapper season opens June 1….
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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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.