Franklin County High School junior Josiah Friddle and freshman Addyson Paul will be advancing to regionals, after their strong performances at the Oct. 30 cross country district meet at Port St. Joe. Friddle finished sixth, with a time of 17:52.58 to advance. He was the top runner from the area, finishing behind the first five…
As the Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige used to say “Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.” Russ Cumbie, of Carrabelle, and Michaelin Watts, of Apalachicola, are living proof of that. The mixed doubles tennis duo last month took a bronze medal in the Huntsman World…
The Bay County Sheriff’s Office has arrested former Apalachicola resident Joseph Chad Zingarelli, 50, a transient, after warrants were issued for him for sexual battery, robbery by sudden snatching, and battery, his second offense. On Oct. 22, Bay County deputies met with the victim who reported a sexual battery to the BCSO. The victim said…
Get ready for the biggest weekend of the year, as thousands of visitors will flock to Franklin County for the 60th annual Florida Seafood Festival. The weather is expected to be in the mid to high 70s, with no rain in sight, just plates full of oysters and shrimp and fair food. The festival, organized…
Friday night festivities kicked off a vivid Halloween 2023, with lots more on Tuesday night, when the ghosts and goblins came out to haunt the county. In the afternoon, it was time for the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office’s Fall-O-Ween event, where kids got a chance to carve their own pumpkins, play games and of course…
Ever the adventurer, Ethan Way has “walked up a couple hills in North Carolina” and “was on a snowmobile in Colorado a couple times.” So naturally it made sense to climb the highest mountain in Africa and the highest single free-standing mountain above sea level in the world. Last month, the 51-year-old criminal defense attorney…
It opened with the feel-good sound of the local ukulele band The Ukulillies, and it ended with the auctioning off of Dave Daley’s poster for the fourth annual Porch Fest, signed by each of the two dozen musical groups that played the three main stages and the 13 porches scattered throughout the neighborhoods of Apalachicola….
When a Florida Department of Corrections officer spotted a man on a bicycle in Eastpoint Thursday morning, law enforcement officials thought he might be Robert Rutherford, the Franklin Correctional Institution inmate who escaped from a work camp detail in Apalachicola Monday morning. When they looked over the contents of a backpack the man left behind…
From the very last pew of the overflowing sanctuary, Dot Hill raised her hand softly when the question was asked if any congregants had been present the last time Apalachicola’s Trinity Episcopal Church ordained a priest. That ordination, in the 1838 sanctuary of what is now the second oldest continuously serving church in Florida, had…
The upcoming Florida Seafood Festival, Nov. 3 through 5 at Apalachicola’s Battery Park, will have an array of bounce houses to keep kids from bouncing off the walls at home. In a news release Thursday afternoon from the Florida Seafood Festival volunteer board, the festival reported that a year-long effort to secure kids’ entertainment for…
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