Agency partnership monitors invasive animals Last week was National Invasive Species Awareness Week and while most of us probably slept right through it, there’s a group of experts from various agencies who keep a watchful eye on the plants and animals that are on the rise but that don’t belong here. It’s called the Apalachicola…
The Franklin County Lady Seahawks softball team took a first step in establishing their dominance over Gulf County last week by shutting out Wewahitchka and then edging Port St. Joe. In the Feb. 29 game at Wewa, junior Sarah Ham twirled a two-hit 5-0 shutout, striking out 12 Lady Gators and walking none over the…
The Franklin County Seahawks lost 9-6 to Taylor County Friday night. The Seahawks struck first with a run in the second, but the Bulldogs came back with three in the bottom of that inning. Franklin County tied it up with two more in the top of the third, and both teams scored two in the…
Victory arrives for Firefighter Forever team Fourteen years after Davie firefighter Brian Nolte passed away from brain cancer, the competitive chili cooking team that he founded punched their golden ticket to the world championships. After a knife blade-thin first round that saw a five-way tie, Tallahassee’s Firefighter Forever team, led by Nolte’s friend Neal Trafford…
It took over a year to get to the bottom of who was responsible for a derelict vessel that was impeding boat traffic around Pinhook in the Apalachicola River. How long before that it had languished in the water is anybody’s guess. But based on the fact the chains intended to drag it up on…
During the 2019-20 varsity softball season, the record books show that then seventh-grade pitcher Sarah Ham pitched a single inning. At the end of the season her stats, if they can be trusted, showed that she had given up two hits, one of them a double, and nine runs, walked three and struck out just…
For 41 years, the St. George Island Regional Charity Cook-off and Auction has been among Franklin County’s biggest events, with the first weekend of March featuring dozens of “professional” International Chili Society chili cooks vying for a shot at the world championships. But a lot has changed in recent years, so that this Saturday, there…
‘Magnificent’ handmade catamaran to soon set sail Two decades ago, Mike Holcombe and his wife Glynis built a home in the Jones Homestead area east of Port St. Joe. At about the same time, Mike paid $2,000 to purchase a set of plans from famed New Zealand boat designer and builder Ian Farrier, known for…
Canines ride the range at Barkus Parade The little doggies git along Saturday afternoon in downtown Apalachicola, as thousands of people and hundreds of dogs stampeded to the Apalachicola Mardi Gras Barkus Parade. An annual event put on for 13 years by the Mystic Krewe of Salty Barkers, the parade picks a theme each year,…
Apalachicola’s famed Owl Cafe, which dates back to around 1914 with its founding by a pair of Greek immigrant brothers, has gotten a facelift. After closing for remodeling Jan. 1, the restaurant had a soft reopening Monday, after completing in fewer than two months a whirlwind set of renovations by owner Forgotten Coast Hospitality Group,…
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