ABC students get their glow on
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ABC students get their glow on

Students at the Apalachicola Bay Charter School are glowing eerily in the dark, but it’s not from the drinking water or from getting too close to radioactive plutonium. It’s actually being infused by their teachers, as part of a schoolwide effort that stems from ideas that about two dozen members of the faculty gleaned from…

Sample ballot error confuses Franklin voters
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Sample ballot error confuses Franklin voters

A misprint in a sample ballot set out to Franklin County voters has gotten a lot of folks scratching their heads. In a mailing sent out earlier this month to all of the county’s roughly 7,100 registered voters, the candidates for county tax collector were mistakenly listed as Republican Ashley Lister Forehand and Democrat Candye…

Local property appraisers honored at annual conference
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Local property appraisers honored at annual conference

The Forgotten Coast had an outsized role at the 121st annual conference earlier this month in Jacksonville of the oldest and largest professional association of property appraisers in the state. Gulf County Property Appraiser Mitch Burke was elected to serve as president of the Property Appraisers’ Association of Florida, Inc. After serving a term as…

‘48 Hours’ to feature local case Saturday
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‘48 Hours’ to feature local case Saturday

For six years, readers in Franklin and Gulf counties could follow, if so inclined, the tragic tale of a young woman bludgeoned to death in 2018 in an Eastpoint motel, and the lengthy court proceedings that were ultimately resolved earlier this year. On Saturday night, about two million television viewers, in the United States and…

Franklin County welcomes Milton evacuees
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Franklin County welcomes Milton evacuees

It isn’t often that Franklin County is a place where people come to when there is a hurricane. More often it is where they flee from. But in the case of last week’s Hurricane Milton, evacuees from central and south Florida flocked here to avoid the ravages of the pending hurricane, zeroing in on the…

Friddle, Gortemoller top Tate’s Hell 5K
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Friddle, Gortemoller top Tate’s Hell 5K

A pair of runners from the Forgotten Coast topped the Tate’s Hell 5K field of 73 racers last Saturday in Carrabelle. Franklin County High School senior Josiah Friddle topped the field by running an 18:44, nearly two minutes faster than runner-up Michael Martinez.  The top female was Port St. Joe High School graduate Madelyn Gortemoller,…

Cat drama sheds light on rescue policies
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Cat drama sheds light on rescue policies

A pre-hurricane drama over a motel-visiting cat in Carrabelle has brought into sharper focus the role played by officials responsible for compassion over, and control of, the Forgotten Coast’s feline population. It all started in the days before Hurricane Helene was set to pounce on Gulf and Franklin counties, when Amelia Steenmeyer, an information technology…

Community-built skiff topic of Oct. 17 meeting
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Community-built skiff topic of Oct. 17 meeting

An Apalachicola man has a novel idea for bringing people together to build a boat, and he’s organizing an open meeting to introduce it. Duncan Blair, a researcher, educator and photographer of traditional sailing, is inviting the community to an open meeting at Belle’s Winery and Saloon, at 252 Water St across from the Apalachicola…