Cook wins tax collector job
Croom retains commission seat
School levy approved
Brown wins Carrabelle mayor race
Amy Cook has defeated Teresa Martin for the job of Franklin County tax collector, and Anthony Croom has retained his seat on the county commission with a victory over Elinor Mount-Simmons.
In the non-partisan race for mayor of Carrabelle, Sebrina Brown defeated Danyell Robison.
Franklin County voters also approved a school referendum that will mean a half-mill increase in property taxes for operating revenue, mainly to go for staff raises, with a reduction by a half-mill in property taxes for capital outlay, so-called bricks and mortar expenditures.
Stay tuned for further details,
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.