Under sunny skies Saturday morning, Franklin County Youth Football took two out of three contests on the field in Carrabelle against Port St. Joe at the season-opening Jamboree. In the opening Peewee game, coaches Darrian Turner, and assistants Scott Kelly and Levi Odom engineered a 22-0 shutout of the Buccaneers. In the Tiny division, the team…
Women have been associated with the U.S. Navy from as far back as 1776, and have served aboard ships for more than a century, first as nurses and now as admirals. But until now, Camp Gordon Johnston Post 82 of the American Legion has not had a woman command its ranks. On Saturday evening, at…
Like a child first encountering an array of gifts beneath the tree on Christmas morning, it is a challenge to know where to start when it comes to unwrapping the latest tourism numbers. That is because so many are in record-breaking territory. based on a report shared by Tourism Development Council Director John Solomon at…
Against a backdrop of the setting sun dropping over the still waters of the Apalachicola River, Jadyn Luberto on Monday evening was named the 2021 Miss Florida Seafood at a brief ceremony at Riverfront Park. Luberto was selected from amongst three young women who competed, the others being Sydney Shuman, of Eastpoint, who finished as…
It took but a single morning before one of the two inmates who fled last week from the Gulf County Detention Facility was captured in Franklin County. It took most all of three days before they caught the other one, also in a neighboring county, at the southern edge of Calhoun County. The search for…
I stood at a busy lunch counter in Little Havana as I watched the Twin Towers topple. Gawking at an overhead TV wedged atop the well-worn appliances, it was a good thing I was speechless. When people are angry, their blood starts pumping faster, and they draw on their deepest, untranslatable feelings, which are housed…
Franklin County school leaders are lending support to the governorÂ’s proposal announced Tuesday to eliminate the annual spring Florida Standards Assessment test, and instead rely on less stressful progress monitoring tests administered in the fall, winter and spring. “I know kids who have test anxiety and when itÂ’s a one-shot deal itÂ’s very hard on…
ItÂ’s been two years since Franklin CountyÂ’s elementary school kids played football competitively, with a cheer crew on the sidelines urging them on. ThatÂ’s all going to come to an end this Saturday, as Franklin County Youth Football and Cheer takes the field in Carrabelle to take on Port St. Joe at the season-opening Jamboree….
ThereÂ’s a lot of ways to pay for the shoreline at Alligator Point to be renourished, and the taxpayers there, and throughout the county, have at least until the 2023 Florida legislative session to figure it out. But that doesnÂ’t mean itÂ’s too soon to start building a consensus, or lack thereof, on a project…
Nearly 40 years ago, the Army Corps of Engineers dredged the
Eastpoint Channel.
Since then, the county, together with its congressmen and
congresswoman, have worked to secure the money from Â…
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