Franklin Countys lodging tax posted its first half-million-dollar month in July, more than double the monthly total of one year ago. The more than $551,000 total represented a nearly $300,000 increase over the roughly $253,000 showing in July 2020. The large increase was due in large part to the fact that July 2021 was the…
Youre never too old to be young. Three Franklin County residents came home with the gold in their respective sports and age brackets, at The Huntsman World Senior Games held in St. George, Utah. The Huntsman Games, which include more than 30 sports, is the largest annual multi-sport event in the world for athletes age…
Friday night’s Seahawk home game against the Bronson Eagles didn’t start out pretty and it didn’t end on a good note, either. The Eagles amassed a 26-0 lead after the first quarter, tacked on 22 more for a 48-0 bulge at halftime, and after a scoreless third stanza, scored a touchdown late in the game,…
For the first time in Franklin County High Schools history, the school is taking part in the Navy Junior ROTC program. Still a fledgling group, the 15 or so members, largely underclassmen, are part of detachment Eastpoint, a satellite of the existing unit at Wakulla County High School. Superintendent Steve Lanier, himself a retired Navy…
Its not a first for our country or our state, but it is for Franklin County, and an uncommon picture for the state of Florida. Apalachicola now has an all-female city commission, with the swearing in Oct. 5 of Mayor Brenda Ash to complete the last two years of the four-year term of the late…
It will likely not be until the spring when the two defendants charged with the murder of 31-year-old Aileen Seiden will get their day in court. And when they do, about four years after the April 2018 killing, one of them., Christina Araujo, 41, of Loxahatchee, will be represented by one of the most high-profile criminal defense…
In a concert sure to electrify the faithful, the Florida Seafood Festival has turned to one of the most promising young artists making a name for himself in Christian music. Dante Bowe, worship pastor at Addereth Church in Columbus, Georgia, will bring the sound of the Bethel Music and Maverick City Music collectives, and Elevation Worship,…
River Banks and his dad Ricky both say if the enormous bull gator they caught in the Apalachicola River a month ago had had all 21 of its scutes, instead of half that many on its bitten-off tail, it would have been a state record. The Thomasville, Georgia man who carried the permit for that…
The Franklin County Seahawks continue to search for their first win, after traveling to Cottondale Friday night and sustaining a 52-6 loss to the Hornets. After trailing 30-0 at the half, the Seahawks got on the board in the third quarter, as sophomore Brayden McCall caught a seven-yard pass from junior Evan Stanley. It was…
If the Apalachicola Center for History, Culture and the Arts wanted to boost the numbers of who comes to view its latest exhibit, they probably couldnt have better ramped up interest if they tried. Following the reception a week earlier at the HCA for the new exhibit Journey to Freedom: The Odyssey of Abolitionist Moses…
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