The Lady Seahawk volleyball team spoiled Port St. Joe’s home opener last Thursday, as they emerged victorious before a large and enthusiastic crowd. The Seahawks prevailed over the locals in three sets, winning 25-18, 25-17 and 25-21. In the middle school game, the Seahawks lost the first set 22-25 and then won 26-24 and 15-7 to…
All the non-profits that applied for grants from the Tourist Development Council for the 2021-22 fiscal year received them. But with $228,000 budgeted, and only $188,000 claimed so far, $40,000 will remain in that line item in the budget to be rolled over for the next year. The applications were opened Aug. 4, and after…
All eyes are on the city of Apalachicola, as voters get ready to flock to the National Guard Armory this Tuesday to decide on the lone city commission race. Incumbent Anita Grove, 61, of 174 Avenue C., will face challenger Amy Hersey, 40, of 451 25th Street, in the Sept. 7 balloting. With only two…
Chapman gets a puppy for his birthday Something unusual happened to Patty Matuszewski’s party of four while they were vacationing on St. George Island about a month ago. It had not been the easiest of two years since a nightmarish day, July 6, 2019, when her 42-year-old son Jereme Ryan Anselm was driving his girlfriend…
A Franklin Correctional Institution inmate has been charged in the death of another. On Feb. 6, 2020, James Knudsen was sentenced in Okaloosa County for one year, seven months and 18 days in the state penitentiary for possession of a controlled substance, and battery. About five months short of when he expected to go home,…
A skinny dipping incident on St. George Island two summers ago figures into a multi-state, multi-jurisdictional case being made against a former FBI supervisory special agent on charges of indecent exposure in front of juveniles. In an Aug. 22 news release, Sheriff AJ Smith said a warrant for the arrest of David Lee Harris, 51,…
Apalachicolas Chestnut Cemetery has a collection of some of the finest hand-carved headstones in the state, worthy of preservation and presentation. In an April talk as part of the Apalachicola Area Historical Societys speaker series, Margo Stringfield, an expert from Pensacolas University of West Florida on the states historic cemeteries, engaged the audience at the…
It was a case that began two years ago, in Sept. 2019, when Ashley Grieg and her Bacon Me Crazy food truck went to court to allege that the city had wronged her as to how it processed her application to be permitted to operate. It ended up being settled in February by the citys…
Like the shrill blast of a foghorn, Ascension Sacred Heart sounded a piercing alarm last week about the effect COVID-19 is having on its hospitalizations. And the Florida Department of Health that serves Gulf and Franklin counties sent out one that for the most part echoed the blast. On Aug. 19, Ascension sent a release…
With a handful of new teachers, maximum enrollment and standardized test results that stayed largely steady during what was a down year throughout the state, the Apalachicola Bay Charter School opened the school year with the wind at its back. Now if it can just keep COVID-19 from wafting into nostrils. Quarantine requirements have sidelined…
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