Scores of hanging lanterns cast a colorful glow over the Crooked River Lighthouse Nov. 11 for Lantern Fest, held each year in honor of the lighthouse’s birthday, now over 127 years old. None more impressive in that mystic light was the enormous wooden boat that will serve as the new sound stage and playground. The…
Former Seahawks’ football coach Dirk Strunk, who has returned to Franklin County High School to oversee its alternative learning center, secured a big win last week, but it wasn’t on the gridiron. Rather, he got it on the home soccer field, as the Seahawks, propelled by the leg of senior Gideon Dively, downed Port St….
A large two-story home just west of Carrabelle went up in flames early Sunday morning, leaving no one hurt and only the carport and garage still standing. According to Carl Whaley, the chief of the Carrabelle Volunteer Fire Department, the department received a call at 2:48 a.m. Sunday that a fire was raging at 193…
He’s held a holster full of law enforcement positions, but right before Halloween, Joel Norred was promoted to one he considers his greatest honor. At a surprise breakfast at the sheriff’s office Oct. 27, Sheriff A.J. Smith presented Norred a sheriff’s badge, albeit honorary, in a board room full of the many people with whom…
The stricter enforcement of Apalachicola’s rules against posting signs outside of the premises of a business or facility has angered some within the city. And one of the most prominent of those who are upset are people in the physical condition to wrestle with the issue. Stephen Dykes, who manages the Forgotten Coast Fitness &…
In three separate ceremonies over two days, the county paid tribute to its veterans. The first Veterans Day program was at the First Baptist Christian School on Friday morning, in the church sanctuary where the students there presented a traditional program of songs and readings, blending historical passages like the Gettysburg Address, the preamble to…
Noah Lockley, Jr., who served for nearly two decades as county commissioner, passed away Tuesday afternoon at about 2 p.m. at his home in Apalachicola, surrounded by family, at the age of 72 A steady stream of friends, from the Hill neighborhood where he grew up, and from throughout the country, made visits over the…
The new emergency operations center won’t be going up on the outskirts of the Apalachicola Regional Airport as originally planned. Instead, county commissioners last month gave the go-ahead to build the replacement facility off Highway 65 in Eastpoint. The site, now in the hands of the Eastpoint Water and Sewer District, consists of a little…
The 60th annual Florida Seafood Festival last weekend is in the record books, and while it didn’t break any attendance records, the turnout was pretty respectable. “Attendance was up from last year,” said John Solomon, president of the all-volunteer board of directors. “Many vendors I spoke to said they had a very awesome year.” At…
During the height of the COVID epidemic, Apalachicola hosted trick-or-treat with costumed kids making the rounds in the center of the downtown.. This year, though, the city got back to one of its most cherished traditions, a Beggar’s Night in which little ghosts and goblins, and Snow Whites and Sleeping Beauties, went from door-to-door and…
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