It featured more than 3,500 plastic eggs, with goodies inside, and 500 real eggs, and the children made sure they hunted all of them down at the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office’s annual Easter egg hunt. Held on a field adjacent to the sheriff’s office on Highway 65, the Saturday hunt began at 11 a.m. Members…
A five-game winning streak, and wins in eight of their last nine games, has lifted the Lady Seahawks varsity softball team to a sixth-place ranking in Florida Class 1A. Franklin County improved to 13-5 last week, with victories at North Florida Christian April 4, and at home against Blountstown April 6. In the 7-1 win…
Most everyone who takes to the Apalachicola Bay waters knows boating under the influence can be a serious problem. But how many have stopped to think that the fish themselves might have a substance abuse issue as well? A study released last week by Florida International University’s Coastal Fisheries Research Lab found that among the…
Both members of Franklin County’s legislative delegation supported the legislation, signed Monday by Gov. Ron DeSantis, that will allow Floridians to carry guns without concealed-weapons licenses. State Sen. Corey Simon (R-Tallahassee) was among the 27 yeas, to 13 Democratic nays, that gave final approval to House Bill 543, about a week after State Rep. Jason…
For the time being, it’s 5,500 square feet of space so new and unused you can smell the fresh paint and freshly laid carpet inside, and eye the brownish squares of sod and spotless asphalt parking spaces outside. The toys and books in what will be a supervised visitation area are intact and unstained, an…
An English professor at the University of South Florida has shed fresh light on the history of Apalachicola’s African American women’s clubs in the early 20th century. At a well-attended talk March 16 at the Apalachicola Margaret Key Library, presented by the PALS friends of the library group, Dr. Cynthia Patterson drew on a 2019…
On the weekend that ushers in Holy Week, the Bay Area Choral Society blended a repertoire of Christian hymns and upbeat, joyous songs from theater and film to create a pair of “Sounds of the Season’ concerts last weekend. On Friday evening, the concert was at First United Methodist Church of Port St. Joe, and…
At a fun-filled Palm Sunday spring festival, Hope Park in Eastpoint treated kids and parents alike to a taste of a summer camp program to come. The park, which has developed into a full fledged ecumenical children’s ministry, offered everything from a hamburger and hot dog meal, to a cake walk, to dyeing of Easter…
There were few if any pictures of working oystermen in the collection this year, as Apalachicola Bay remains closed. But that certainly didn’t mean that the vibrancy of the county’s people, young and old, and its rich legacy and future promise were captured in oil paints, watercolor and pastels. The 18th annual Forgotten Coast en…
Pysanka, the Ukrainian tradition of egg decorating, will enliven the Easter holiday in the Panhandle with a special exhibit in Panama City throughout April of the works of an Eastpoint artist. Gary Carroll, a master of the art of using the wax-resistant method to inscribe folk designs on eggshells, has modernized and expanded his repertoire…
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