Housed quietly at the Crooked River Lighthouse Keeper’s House Museum for two years, it sat stationery on display as it awaited the royal treatment that befits the nearly 130-year-old Fresnel lens whose beam once guided ships traveling along the Carrabelle shoreline. Now housed in a newly-created steel lighthouse tower-inspired case, the lens is glowing and…
I believe it is safe to say I am the first person in the 125-year history of the Apalachicola Public Library to wrap tefillin there. In English translation, this means I am the first to “don phylacteries” there. It is also probably only the second, maybe third time I have ever used the word phylacteries…
Testing to be conducted on shower curtain rod In a hearing Monday afternoon, Circuit Judge Jonathan Sjostrom postponed until the middle of June the murder trial of two defendants accused of bludgeoning to death a South Florida woman nearly five years ago at an Eastpoint motel. In granting a motion for a continuance filed by…
There are plenty of great vendors of quality jewelry, art, photography and handmade items at Apalachicola’s Farmers Market, held every second and fourth Saturday at the Mill Pond pavilion. But what further distinguishes the Apalach market from others around the county is that it is anchored by three purveyors of fresh edibles, including meat, eggs,…
Franklin County commissioners, upset at talk around the community that the Eastpoint dredge project would be further delayed, voiced their anger at a special meeting last week. The Jan. 26 meeting, called by Chairman Ricky Jones, focused on why it is that the dredge contractor has been slowed in its progress, apparently because the equipment…
In celebration of Florida’s Arbor Day, the city of Apalachicola’s Tree Committee gave away more than 70 live, young trees at the Mill Pond Pavilion Farmers Market on Saturday morning, Jan. 14. For those trees, though, that are dead and dying, the committee is asking the city to provide a safe and fitting end to…
At its Thursday afternoon meeting, the Franklin County School Board is expected to accept the resignation of Donna Barber, a teacher in the district for the past 30 years, after district officials learned that a video visitation with an inmate had been conducted from her office at the school. Barber’s Jan. 24 resignation letter to…
As the 30-person crew from the Simple Alien TV production crew were packing up their gear after a weekend of filming an episode for season two of BBQ USA set to appear this summer on the Food Network, they were asked a simple alienating question. Are any of you vegans? K.C. Napper sheepishly wafted up…
Winter is usually a time of hardship for birds that live here or migrate through, as food is less plentiful. The bait fish have gone offshore and they have to learn a new way of hunting. When the temperatures dip below freezing, the threat is even greater to the poorly nourished avians, as they have…
High Five Dive Bar is going into the craft beer business, partnering with an established Jackson County brewer with ties to Franklin County. On Friday night, bar owners Becky and Ronnie Jones announced that they had teamed up with Brian Walker, owner of Southern Fields Brewing in Campbellton, to produce their own local Coastal Soul…
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