In a landslide win last week, Carrabelle voters elected city commissioner Sebrina Brown as their new mayor, to succeed Brenda La Paz, who stepped down earlier this year. Shown above dressed for the occasion at Saturday evening’s Lantern Fest at the Crooked River Lighthouse, Brown collected 529 votes, or 72.7 percent, to Danyell Robison’s 199, or 27.3 percent, in the non-partisan race.
You thought gambling was fun until the day you couldn’t stop. Or, you know it’s wrong to cheat on your schoolwork, but you tell yourself you don’t have a choice. Or every day, you beg God to give you the strength not to sleep with your boyfriend – again. Or, you struggle with your temper…
Allan Feifer, the face of the Concerned Citizens of Franklin County ever since its founding 22 years ago, is stepping down, making way for new leadership under the direction of local realtor Mason Bean. The CCFC, founded in 2001 to encourage “better and more fiscally responsive government in Franklin County,” plans to continue its mission…
At a fun-filled Palm Sunday spring festival, Hope Park in Eastpoint treated kids and parents alike to a taste of a summer camp program to come. The park, which has developed into a full fledged ecumenical children’s ministry, offered everything from a hamburger and hot dog meal, to a cake walk, to dyeing of Easter…
Under sunny skies Saturday morning, Franklin County Youth Football took two out of three contests on the field in Carrabelle against Port St. Joe at the season-opening Jamboree. In the opening Peewee game, coaches Darrian Turner, and assistants Scott Kelly and Levi Odom engineered a 22-0 shutout of the Buccaneers. In the Tiny division, the team…
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…
Joblessness in the Forgotten Coast continued to be under control in May, as Franklin County saw a drop and Gulf stayed steady in their unemployment numbers. According to preliminary data released Friday by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, Franklin County joblessness improved by four-tenths of 1 percentage point, from 3.1 down to 2.7 percent….
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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.