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.
When the Arctic Council was formed in 1996, its member nations regarded the Arctic as a “low tension” area — what a NATO study called a “zone of depoliticized cooperation.”
The Santa who swooped down along Seventh Street two Saturday mornings ago, from atop a fire truck gleaming in the bright winter sun, had more to say than just “Ho Ho and Ho” and merry …
One of two escaped inmates from the Gulf County Detention Facility has been apprehended, the other remains at large. The search for Chad Edward Johnson, 43, expanded outside of Gulf County on Wednesday after he escaped with his cellmate, Rex Aaron Veasey, Jr., 29, some time before 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. The two inmates, both last…
Three big ticket items, including a proposed $7 million for George E. Weems Memorial Hospital, failed to make it into the 2022-23 state budget, but Franklin Countys representatives in
Both the Franklin County High School varsity baseball and softball teams opened the post-season Tuesday night with big wins. After sustaining two regular season losses to the Port St. Joe Tiger Sharks, the Seahawks triumphed at home 9-1, in a must-win game for keeping their tournament hopes alive. In Blountstown, the :Lady Seahawks downed the…
There were goats and glucose meters, ice cream and blood pressure tests, as Franklin County’s array of health services, both for the mind and for the body, were put on full display May 18 in front of Weems Memorial Hospital. The hospital’s foundation, using the theme “Catch The Wellness Wave,” held its second annual Community…
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.