An announcement by Gov. Ron DeSantis last week that more than $58 million had been awarded to 18 communities in seven counties impacted by Hurricane Michael was well-received in Apalachicola. About $5.3 million worth of well-received. Apalachicola’s chunk of the Rebuild Florida Hometown Revitalization Program was fourth, trailing only Panama City’s $19 million, Marianna’s $7.3 million …
They bounced back after a hurricane but couldnt avoid the sucker punch of the coronavirus pandemic. But in 2021, one year after the Florida Seafood Festival was shut down for the first time in its nearly 60-year history, it will be back again, alive and well in Apalachicola, Nov. 5, 6 and 7, for the…
Because of a nearly 8 percent expansion of the tax base, county commissioners plan to lower the millage rate, but not quite to the rollback rate. At a budget workshop on July 29, the commissioners reviewed a report from Erin Griffith, the countys finance director, that indicated one mill would generate about $2.33 million for…
With Franklin and Gulf county residents getting vaccinated at about two-thirds the rate of entire state, and a dramatic increase in COVID-19 cases in both counties during the month of July, the Florida Department of Health that serves the population is pressing its message. Its not about masks, its not about handwashing, its not about…
When Franklin County schoolkids return to their campuses Tuesday, they wont have to be wearing masks, unless they want to, nor will they have to be vaccinated against COVID-19, if thats what they and their family prefers. However, students at the Franklin County School will have to pass through a full body scan metal detector….
A Carrabelle man arrested for abandoning seven mixed-breed pit bull terriers in the county said he dropped them off because he knew they would likely be picked up and later adopted. Following the discovery of six puppies dropped off in a cardboard box July 21 at 300 Ocean Mile on St. George Island, and a…
A review of boating accident statistics for 2020, issued earlier this summer by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, shows that both Franklin and Gulf counties had a pretty safe, but by no means, perfect year. The Boating Accident Statistical Report report by the Division of Law Enforcement showed each county had five reportable…
The USNS Apalachicola, its name announced to great fanfare two years ago at the Independence Eve celebration, is expected to be launched this November, and be in service by this time next year. The EPF 13, newest of the Navys Expeditionary Fast Transport ships, is now about three-quarters complete as it is being built in…
With a new police chief, Carrabelle is now setting about replenishing its ranks, and has had to alter its rules to do so. Kevin Shuman, 50, was hired in the spring to replace former Chief Gary Hunnings. After starting his law enforcement career in 2006 as an auxiliary officer, Shuman worked full time with the…
If you haven’t visited the Orman House, and the adjacent Chapman Botanical Gardens, you are missing the blossoming back into life of what has become a sprawling portrait of Apalachicola’s history. With the early 19th-century house, administered under the auspices of the Florida Park Service, shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Chapman Gardens becoming…
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