Getting your penny’s worth
The Penny’s Worth thrift shop at 195 Avenue E in Apalachicola, an outreach of Trinity Episcopal Church, is getting ready for the Christmas holiday with a complete assortment of festive gifts for family and friends to go along with its usual offerings of gently used clothing, and lots of items for home and kitchen. In photo above, volunteers Connie Finneran, left, and Marlene Seaborn sort out donated items for sale. Penny’s Worth is usually open Tuesdays and Saturdays, although it will be closed Nov. 30, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. It will then be open on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 10 and 17, and Saturday, Dec. 7 and 14. Closed for Christmas Dec. 21, 24, 28 and 30, and reopening on Saturday, Jan. 4.
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.