Wewa beekeeper ventures into legal hemp
There are multiple required steps to enter the bunker on the Rish family’s property in Wewahitchka.
Shoes and socks must be removed outside. Then hands and feet are misted with …
Ausley sponsors bill clarifying rights of foster youths
Florida Senate subcommittee unanimously passed Sen. Loranne Ausley’s bipartisan bill, which aims to codify a de facto bill of rights for children and young adults under the state’s …
County’s airports to get millions for infrastructure
Franklin County’s airports are set to receive more than $11 million from the Florida Department of Transportation over the next five years. According to a draft of the DOT’s Tentative Five-Year Work Program for District 3, which was opened for public comment at public hearings Oct. 5, $4.2 million will be allocated for improvements at the Apalachicola…
Suspect nabbed in Cape San Blas burglaries
The Gulf County Sheriff’s Office has identified and obtained warrants for a man suspected in six residential burglaries on Cape San Blas. According to a statement released in the late afternoon on Sept. 2, investigators first began looking for the man, Kevin Schoelles, 36, of Apalachicola, in mid-August after a cooler was reported stolen from underneath a resident’s…
Escapee remains at large
One of two escaped inmates from the Gulf County Detention Facility has been apprehended, the other remains at large. The search for Chad Edward Johnson, 43, expanded outside of Gulf County on Wednesday after he escaped with his cellmate, Rex Aaron Veasey, Jr., 29, some time before 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. The two inmates, both last…
Grand Jury ups indictment in Seiden murder case
A 21-person Grand Jury upped the inditement of two South-Floridians to first degree homicide Thursday morning, opening the case for the possibility of capital punishment.
Scalloper liberates tangled nurse shark
David Torres of Shalimar said he was not fazed by the approaching boat’s warning – “Shark!” His family has seen many sharks in the waters of Gulf County, where they have been coming to scallop for more than a decade, and he had never heard of any shark attacks in the area. But the next sentence…