This article has been updated from an earlier version. A 14-month-old girl was run over and killed at about 1:45 p.n. at a private residence on Oyster Road near the intersection of Brownsville Road. Sheriff A.J. Smith confirmed the fatality on Facebook Live. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, which was dispatched to 545 Oyster…
Riverfront Park in downtown Apalachicola will be a busy place Saturday as the annual Oyster Cook-Off gets down to business in its mission to raise money for the volunteer fire department. More than 40 paintings were created at the annual pre-cookoff paint party last week at the Apalachicola Center for History, Culture and the Arts….
John Cooper, a 30-year-old offensive line coach from Wakulla County who was an assistant coach for the Seahawks five years ago, has accepted an offer to lead the Franklin County High School football program. Superintendent Steve Lanier said he plans to recommend Cooper’s name for school board approval this month, with the coach expected to…
Bickel journeys to remote Morocco In late November and December, while Morocco was becoming the first African and first Arab nation to reach the World Cup semi-finals, Richard Bickel was taking pictures. Not of the soccer matches, or of the large crowds gathering to watch the games on big screen televisions outdoors. Bickel, a well-seasoned…
It was a tearful goodbye for Pamela Brownell Tuesday morning, as she retired from Franklin County Emergency Management after 17 years, the last decade as its director. “Start enjoying your life,” said Commissioner Cheryl Sanders. “Know in your heart when you go to bed, you made the best decisions you could. We’re only as good…
With both Franklin County High School soccer teams defeating Munroe to close out 2022, they open up the new year at home Thursday, Jan. 5 against Noth Bay Haven. The Lady Seahawks soccer team, 2-7-1 heading into 2023. is young with a capital Y, and playing with heart, guided by Anna Bull, a knowledgeable, seasoned…
There is no question that the biggest story of 2022 was a lot of smaller stories that formed a constellation that twinkled in the skies above Franklin County. Call this celestial gathering of stars “Emptor,” Latin for buyer, or “Venditor,” meaning seller, or even “Marcator,” merchant. Whatever you call this constellation, that perceived arrangement of…
Rachel Crisp did the seventh annual Polar Plunge on the Cape Sunday morning, but not for long. “His goal was two minutes,” she said, pointing out the two others in her trio, Douglas Boyce and Amy Empric. “Hers is 10 seconds and mine is zero seconds,” said Crisp. “I am going to have everything set…
It was the closest Franklin County came to a white Christmas, with the whiteness of ice glistening throughout the land and sea. The temperatures dipped into the low 20s in the days leading up to Christmas, and began warming the day after, and continued all week. Here are some examples around the county of the…
In plotting a strategy to take on Bozeman last week, Seahawk coach Ray Bailey knew he had to neutralize the effect that the Bucks too-tall twosome in the paint would have on his team.
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