Topping the charts at Carrabelle’s Boat Parade of Lights Dec. 14 were for boats 24-feet and under 1st) Mutiny, Steve Cowles 2) Sweet Caroline, Chris Holley and 3) Porter Girl, Johnnie Porter 25 to 34 feet 1) Electric Ray, Cypress Rudloe 2) Dandy, Lake Etheridge and 3) Emily Decessre; 35 to 44 feet 1) Docks 4 Less, David Keith 2) Brickbat, Eric Phfeifer and 3) Twisted Shrimp, Jesse Carroll; 45 feet and over 1) Dream On, Will M. Morris and 2) Ginger, Capt. Ron; kayak Annie Ross and overall Best of Show 5 Knots, Mike Scaringe.
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…
By Ron Hart In speeches at Stanford University in the mid-1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr coined the term “Two Americas.” He described the then starkly different lives and opportunities of social classes in America. Like many cool things, that term was stolen from an African American and co-opted by white liberal Democrats. It was…
Vice President Kamala Harris wants Americans to believe that she is not a progressive. Now that she’s heading the Democratic ticket, she’s all for securing the border, after all. For many of us who’ve known her since the days she served as San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general, that’s a tall order. Harris…
Between 1884 and 1947, from the year that Moses Fleetwood Walker played for the American Association’s Toledo Mud Hens until the Brooklyn Dodgers inserted Jackie Robinson into the lineup, the most prominent minority in baseball was American Indians. One of the most insightful chapters in Larry Ritter’s classic, “The Glory of Their Times,” is based…
The Camp Gordon Johnston World War II Museum in Carrabelle is presenting a special exhibit exploring the wartime bravery and sacrifice of the 8th Air Force, known as The Mighty Eighth, on display throughout August. Admission free. The museum is open every Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET. For more info,…
It’s not a done deal yet, but with the county commission’s go-ahead last week to get appraisals on acreage next to the Tourist Development Office on US 98, the next step could be to relocate the supervisor of elections office there. By a unanimous vote Feb. 7, the county commissioner approved a motion by Commissioner…
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.