Capt. James Hamm, left, and Major Brad Segree carve pumpkins at the sheriff’s office’s Fall-O-Ween. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]
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Happy hauntings

The Forgotten Coast did Halloween in style this year.

The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office started the celebration with its annual Fall-O-Ween on Oct. 22, as a throng of costumed kiddies flocked to the field adjacent to the Eastpoint headquarters.

Each received a hand carved pumpkin by law enforcement personnel, and got plenty of candy at any of several booths sponsored by businesses, churches and non-profit organizations. 

Then on Halloween it was time for Port St. Joe’s Ghosts on the Coast, as hundreds of families paraded down Reid Avenue to get candy and compete in the costume contest, sponsored by the Gulf County Chamber of Commerce.,



And of course there was plenty of trick-or-treating going on in neighborhoods throughout Gulf and Franklin Counties.



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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.

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