Jennifer Stradtman has a dream, to create the Sandy Boots Songwriters Festival of St. George Island in the spring. To help awaken it, she hosted a launch party at her West Gorrie Drive home Saturday, featuring two of the best songwriters in Nashville, to help generate interest and whet the appetite for the spring festival….
It probably won’t be completed before fall 2025 at the earliest, but planning for a proposed Apalachicola Museum of African American Culture and History is now well underway. The two architects at work on the project – Bret D. Hammond of the Tallahassee-based Hammond Design Group, LLC, and Ruffin Rhodes, with the Orlando-based Rhodes+Brito Architects…
The Franklin County Lady Seahawks varsity basketball team has opened strong, going 4-1 to start the 2023-24 season. After an opening 48-26 road loss Nov. 21 to Arnold, Jordan McNair’s squad has reeled off four straight wins on the road. On Nov. 27, it was a 44-28 victory at Wakulla over the Lady War Eagles,…
Forget your fruit cake and your figgy pudding. If there’s one sweet delight that best symbolizes Christmas, it’s a cookie, and area school kids, from Wewahitchka to Apalachicola and parts in between, got in the spirit of cookie decorating last week. In Apalachicola, it was a chance for Head Start kids and pre-kindergarteners from the…
There soon will be car rentals at the Apalachicola Regional Airport, after Franklin County commissioners unanimously approved a request from the airport’s fixed base operator Tara Blauth, who along with Andrew Hartman are principals for Centric Aviation LLC, which runs the airport, appeared at the Nov. 21 meeting to ask for permission to offer the…
When the national college football pundits and prognosticators zero in on the squads in this Saturday evening’s Atlantic Coast Conference championship, they may overlook the outsized role that the streets of Apalachicola have on the game. But it’s certainly not being lost on the locals. Two of the key defensive players for both teams, Florida…
Due to unanticipated problems with the delivery of the print edition of the Times and Star, expect a delay in receiving your newspaper either in the mail or the machines. We are at work sorting out the problem and ask for your patience as we work to secure delivery as soon as possible. In the…
Franklin County varsity boys basketball coach Ray Bailey knows he has his work cut out for his team this season.His Seahawks, who made it to Lakeland last season before bowing out against eventual Class 1A champion Williston, have lost three critically important starters from that team to graduation, senior Owen Poloronis, who led the team…
The county on Saturday celebrated the life of the late Noah Lockley, Jr. in a ceremony at the Matchbox gym that recalled the kindness and good cheer the longtime county commissioner displayed over the course of his career. And as a politician who served his community for nearly two decades, it is now a matter…
Jerry Hurley has been a local playwright for a long enough time that audiences have come to expect that he’ll come up with something worthy of a night out. He’s mastered cornball, he revels in raunch, and he’s skillful at bringing out just enough poignancy to not strain the heart muscles. He keeps ‘em laughing,…
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