The Franklin County cross country team, youthful and determined, are putting their best feet forward as the season gets underway. Last Saturday, at Dueling Summits 2021 at Elinor Klapp-Phipps Park in Tallahassee, coach Kati-Morgan Hathcock brought eight runners to compete at the event, hosted by the Maclay School. All their times but one were seasons…
The Raney House plans to apply for monies to fortify the deteriorated columns in the front. The Carrabelle History Museum would like an elevator, and the Camp Gordon Johnston World War II Museum wants to pave their driveway. The Crooked River and Cape St. George lighthouses, the Apalachicola Center for History, Culture and the Arts,…
Laurel Newman lived her life like a wildflower, and yet could stand firm as an oak, and forever she will be memorialized with both. In a ceremony Sunday afternoon at the Crooked River Lighthouse, where she served as a docent, the former reporter for the Apalachicola and Carrabelle Times was remembered by family and friends….
With the COVID-19 pandemic still with us, it would be helpful to contrast it with an epidemic that all but wiped the city of St. Joseph off the map. Off Garrison Avenue in Port St. Joe can be found all that remains of the lost city of St. Joseph, where the Old St. Joseph Cemetery…
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…
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