The search for a Franklin Correctional Institution inmate who escaped Monday from a work crew site in Apalachicola has ended. At about 6:30 p.m., Franklin County Sheriff A.J. Smith posted a video on Facebook of a handcuffed Robert Rutherford, 37, of Pasco County, in Eastpoint. Authorities have captured Franklin County escaped inmate 37-year-old Robert Rutherford….
As the search for an escaped inmate from the Franklin Correctional Institution entered its third day, a reward of up to $5,000 is now being offered to anyone who can provide information that leads to his arrest. Sheriff A.J. Smith said Wednesday morning that 37-year-old Robert Rutherford was last seen between 8th Street and Avenue…
The sister of a Franklin County Institution inmate, who walked away Monday morning from a work crew site at the 10 Foot Hole in Apalachicola, is pleading for his safe return. In an email to the Apalachicola Times, Christina Rutherford, sister of escaped inmate Robert Rutherford., wrote that her brother is not a violent man….
On Tuesday, Oct. 3, Apalachicola Mayor Brenda Ash, and city commissioners Adriane Elliott and Despina George were all sworn in to office. All three were re-elected to their non-partisan posts without opposition. Because of the recently enacted ordinance to hold elections on even-numbered years, in concert with state and federal elections, their terms will run…
There’s a new bar in town, operated by a man who knows a lot about brewing.On Thursday, Oct. 12 a soft opening was set for the new Apalachicola Yacht Company, at the corner of Water Street and Avenue D, at the site of the former Tin Shed.For eight years, Clayton Mathis worked at the Oyster…
It started out with a series of cabarets, and then blossomed into the Calendar Girls, with prominent women from around the county adorning the months is not much more than their birthday suits. In 2007, Franklin Needs Inc. was established to strengthen the effort to fight breast cancer in Franklin County, and a festive evening…
No one was hurt Thursday afternoon after a fire broke out in a two-story commercial building at 165 Water Street, just to the southeast of the former Taranto and Sons seafood. With the use of foam and of water, the fire, which began sometime around 3 p.m. was extinguished within about two hours by crews…
The annual legislative delegation hearing in Apalachicola’s county commission chambers is usually filled with polite praise for the state senator and state representative working on Franklin County’s issues before the state. After all, they’re bringing home the berries for lots of hungry constituents, and there was no shortage of pointed requests for fiscal acorns that…
Panhandle Players open transformative season The Panhandle Players may produce plays but they are not playing around, with last week’s four-day run of “Rivers Edge” vivid proof of that. I’ll get to the play in a few paragraphs, but first, picture the whole of the Chapman Auditorium space transformed, both permanently with the recent removal…
There’s a surprise in store for those lucky enough to catch this weekend’s performance of the Panhandle Players’ production at the Chapman Theatre in Apalachicola. That’s because there won’t be the old school auditorium seats. They’re gone. What there is instead is the surprise, along the lines of dinner theater seating and homemade desserts by…
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