The jury is still out on whether divine intervention somehow draped an invisible bandanna across my face so that I could witness a shift in the landscape, or whether it was just an embarrassing blunder on my part. Whatever the verdict turns out to be, the evidence shows I was a willing, some might say…
On what was once a barrow pit, an expanse of ditches dug to supply fill dirt for roadways, has sat the Franklin County High School for more than a dozen years, a fairly plain-looking set of brick buildings on a treeless landscape. Now, however, there are bright flowers and butterflies gracing the space between the…
Between Sarah Ham on the mound and the infield doing their job all night long, the Bozeman Lady Bucks didn’t have a real good chance of putting runs on the board Thursday night in Eastpoint. The sophomore hurler allowed just a double and two singles, striking out nine and walking one and not allowing any…
It was a glorious day to take in some of Apalachicola’s most historic homes, and to enjoy the many enhancements that have been made by their newest owners. A large number of people took in the Historic Apalachicola Home and Garden Tour Saturday, the annual event for the past three decades sponsored by Trinity Episcopal…
They’re little but they’re mighty, as Apalachicola’s eight-and-under team, the Diamond Dolls, won a Round Robin tournament last month in Wewahitchka. The team, coached by Mercury Wynn, Victoria Severns, Carl Ard, and Zac Craig went undefeated, besting Port St Joe, Blountstown and Wewa. “My main goal is to make sure the kids are having fun…
It went back and forth all night long, but when the dust under their cleats settled, the Bozeman Bucks had secured an 8-6 win Wednesday night over the Franklin County Seahawks. The Bucks, the top seed in the region and playing on their home field, secured two runs in the bottom of the first to…
In 1942, not long after graduating high school in Donaldsonville, a small town in southeastern Louisiana along the Mississippi River where it winds south from Baton Rouge through the parishes towards New Orleans, Bertus Robert joined the Navy.For the next two years, “Bert,” the youngest of 11 brothers and sisters, would serve as a radio…
On the eve of their upcoming first degree murder trial for the bludgeoning death five years ago in an Eastpoint motel of a South Florida woman with whom they were traveling through Franklin County, one of the two defendants pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon to second degree murder. Accompanied in the Apalachicola courtroom by her attorney,…
When the Apalachicola Bay Charter School’s pre-Kindergarten teacher Joy Floyd had a long-time dream, she did something about it. It was her hope to have the classes of these young ones create a sensory and food garden, all to be in keeping with the ideas found in the curriculum for these kids just embarking on…
Following a 5-3 loss Tuesday night in the district tournament, the Franklin County Lady Seahawks will host Bozeman this Thursday in the Class 1A Region 2 semifinals. The Lady Seahawks enter the regionals as the second-seed, with Bozeman the third seed. The top-seeded Liberty County Lady Bulldogs are seeded first, and take on fourth-seed Sneads….
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