Painting to help fight fires
Apalachicola Bay Charter School fifth grader Cornelia Jansen picked out her colors carefully from the large selection of paints arrayed on a table on the second floor of the Apalachicola Center for
Capsized duck hunters rescued from bay
Three foundering duck hunters were plucked from the chilly waters of Apalachicola Bay Saturday morning, following a a quick response by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office’s water rescue
Seahawks sink St. Joe 66-32
EASTPOINT – When Port St. Joe and Franklin County meet on the basketball court,. it isn’t often you get a running clock.
But that’s what happened about midway through the third quarter Friday
As cases rise, so does testing
With case numbers of COVID-19 rising in both Gulf and Franklin counties, health department officials are stepping up testing options throughout the Forgotten Coast.
We did expect to see a
Sheriff meets with new DJJ secretary
Sheriff A.J. Smith’s push for a stepped-up response by state agencies towards juvenile crime bore high-level fruit last month for the second time in recent weeks. Eric Hall, the newly appointed secretary of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, traveled down for a Dec. 17 meeting with the sheriff. It was the second such meeting…
Talk face-to-face with climate scientists
A group of climate scientists are swinging through the Forgotten Coast this week, offering local residents a chance to talk with them face-to face. On Friday, Jan. 7, they’ll be in Port St. Joe at the Corinne Costin Gibson Memorial Public Library at 10:30 a.m., and then later that day, at 1:30 p.m. they’ll be…
Winter break chilly for Seahawk hoops
The Franklin County Seahawks varsity boys basketball team was busy over the Christmas break, practicing regularly and playing a triad of away games. Unfortunately, they didn’t come home with any wins. Taking part in the Mosley Christmas tournament, Ray Bailey’s Seahawks opened play Dec. 27 against the Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences, out…
Learning to do for others
Learning at Franklin County Schools is about a lot more than just the Rs.
Theres a fourth R, and it stands for Responsibility, the civic and moral obligation to do for others in your
Gulf backs dialysis center subsidy, seeks Franklin help
Gulf County could soon see the return of a full-service kidney dialysis center, thanks largely to a generous five-year subsidy from the county to cover start-up costs.
Whether Franklin County is
Georgia wins Water Wars case
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Early in the year, the nine justices of the US Supreme Court probed counsel for Florida and Georgia Monday regarding the facts and nuances in the epic