As of 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, the county emergency management office has rescinded all evacuation orders, both mandatory and voluntary. Due to a combination of Hurricane Idalia and the rising tide, Bayfront Drive in Alligator Point and Patton Street on St. George Island are under water. Please use extreme caution when in this area. Because there…
With full enrollment of about 377 students, the Apalachicola Bay Charter School is opening the 2023-24 with two new leaders at the helm, and shifts to the classroom staff tailored for an ever-changing student population.Elizabeth Kirvin, who was among the local citizens who first envisioned the school around their kitchen tables nearly three decades ago,…
A portion of Carrabelle’s downtown is headed for the National Register of Historic Places, the federal government’s official listing of historically significant properties throughout the county.The district received the blessing Aug. 3 of the five-person Florida National Register Review Board, a body within the state’s Division of Historical Resources responsible for deciding whether to submit…
In a move to eliminate confusion, and to give code enforcement the tools needed to regulate the city’s growing number of short-term rentals, city commissioners have turned to a Virginia-based company that specializes in helping state and local governments navigate the issue. By a unanimous vote, with commissioner Adriane Elliott absent, the commission agreed to…
Nearly six years after Aileen Seiden’s life ended brutally in Eastpoint when she was just 31 years old, the trial of one of her alleged killers and the sentencing of another won’t happen until 2024. At an Aug. 8 case management hearing, Circuit Judge Frank Allman set Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024 as the first of…
The Franklin County Seahawks traveled to Gainesville Friday night to take on the St. Francis Catholic Wolves, and for the entire first half, it looked like they’d be fowl chewed up by a ravenous pack. But in a remarkable comeback, the Seahawks came out of the locker room at the half trailing 20-0, and then…
With the opening of school last week, the signs are that the teacher crisis shortage that has swept like a hurricane through Florida has largely missed Franklin County. It’s not perfect, there are still some gaps and shifts that have had to be made at Franklin County Schools, but for the most part the classrooms…
“I’m going to play golf next year,” said one Seahawk football player as he headed to the pavilion at the practice field where a giant cooling fan awaited him and where water girl Laelah Carranza offered plastic bottles of cool water to him and his fellow players. Now whether shooting nine holes at St. James…
Carlos Morris was one of the next basketball players to come out of the Franklin County Schools. After starring for the Seahawks while still in middle school, including helping lead them to a berth in the Final Four, Morris, long known by his nickname “Squirrel,” transferred to a private school in Jacksonville. From there he…
EDITOR’S NOTE — THIS REPORT HAS BEEN UPDATED FROM AN EARLIER VERSION TO REMOVE AN INACCURATE STATEMENT REFERENCING BUSINESS INVOLVEMENTS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY OF AN UNRELATED COMPANY, EDGEWATER GROUP LLC, A feasibility study for a waterfront resort development on St. George Island, complete with marina, has begun to attract attention around the county, although a…
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