Forgotten Coast unites for fire safety
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Forgotten Coast unites for fire safety

On Saturday April 19, members of South Gulf Fire Rescue, Dalkeith Fire Department, St. George Island Volunteer Fire Department and Gulf County EMS joined together for fire operations training at the Port St. Joe Junior Senior High School football stadium.  The fire stations and emergency medical crews often draw help from one another in emergency…

Franklin foundation teams with schools for tech solutions
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Franklin foundation teams with schools for tech solutions

The Franklin Education Foundation Inc. last week presented to the Franklin County school testing and technology department a wealth of technology funded by a state grant along with local donations. The presentation on April 16 will enable the schools to fund 50 iPads and folio cases for grades pre-kindergarten and first for testing and classroom…

Quilt show, Carrabelle festival to highlight weekend
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Quilt show, Carrabelle festival to highlight weekend

Hi Y’all, Happy Easter Week If you want to know what is happening with the St. James/Lanark Volunteer Fire Department, attend one of the meetings on the third Monday of each month at 6 p.m. ET. Often, residents put out questions, but are not going to the source to get the correct answers. Get involved,…

Sunrise services happening in Franklin County
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Sunrise services happening in Franklin County

The following is a list of sunrise services happening on Easter Sunday in Franklin County. If you know of other services that are happening, please email to David Adlerstein at dadlerstein@nevespublishing.com or message the Apalachicola Times on Facebook. St. George Island to hold sunrise service The beach along St. George Island’s Lighthouse Park will be the site…

Apalachicola’s Chapman Home highlights May 3 tour
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Apalachicola’s Chapman Home highlights May 3 tour

The home of famed botanist Dr. Alvan W. Chapman highlights the Historic Apalachicola Home and Garden Tour on Saturday, May 3.  Now in its 31st year, the annual event hosted by Trinity Episcopal Church showcases some of the town’s most distinguished homes, both old and new, as well as the City Square Community Garden. “This…

Release celebrates rescue of rare turtle
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Release celebrates rescue of rare turtle

People who live along the Forgotten Coast, as well as those who visit, are accustomed to the sea turtle releases that regularly occur on the beach each year. During the winter, the releases often will be of cold-stunned sea turtles (a collection of turtles is referred to as a “bale” or a “flotilla”) that have…

Carrabelle Beach to hold Easter Sunrise service
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Carrabelle Beach to hold Easter Sunrise service

Hi Y’all, wishing you a Happy Easter. Lanark started their Easter celebrations with an annual Easter egg hunt on the Lanark Village Golf Course, sponsored by the LVGC and the Facebook group the Village Idiots. Once again, the course was filled with happy children searching for eggs the volunteers had hidden, and there were plenty…

Eastpoint egg hunt launches Easter season
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Eastpoint egg hunt launches Easter season

This Saturday will be Gulf County’s turn, and April 20 is Easter Sunday, but for Franklin County, the sheriff’s annual Easter egg hunt Saturday morning ushered in the spring holiday. A large gathering of children, carrying baskets,  were ready when the whistle blew to gather eggs, mostly plastic, from the grounds off of Highway 65….

Piano virtuoso to perform Sunday at Trinity
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Piano virtuoso to perform Sunday at Trinity

The Ilse Newell Fund for the Performing Arts will feature American Piano Awards finalist Sasha Kasman Laude at a concert this Sunday, April 13 at 4 p.m. ET at Trinity Episcopal Church in Apalachicola. Born in 1995 in Moscow to a pair of accomplished pianists, Sasha moved with her family to America after her father…

World War II museum remembers the Holocaust
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World War II museum remembers the Holocaust

The Camp Gordon Johnston World War II Museum in Carrabelle is presenting an exhibit in April to remember the Holocaust, Hitler’s program to commit genocide against Europe’s Jews and all those he deemed unworthy. This exhibit will be on display at the museum until Saturday, May 3. The museum is open every Tuesday through Saturday…