Crooked River ‘pirate ship’ readies for maiden voyage Nine years ago, after the Carrabella “pirate ship” playground burned to the ground at the Crooked River Lighthouse on Mother’s Day 2015, Steve Allen was determined to build it back better. As an architect by profession and president of the Carrabelle Lighthouse Association, Allen set to work…
When Kenny Nadeau woke up at 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning, he was surprised to learn that the temperature in the smoker that was cooking his barbecue had dropped 100 degrees, from the optimal 240 degrees, a change that could impact his entry in the day’s Butts and Clucks competition. Whatever effect it may have had…
In her will Lois Swoboda wrote that she did not want an obituary. To honor her wish, the Times had none. She did love Letters to Santa, though. Each of the several years we worked together at the Times, she typed her share and more in the week leading up to Christmas, grabbing amply from…
Carrabelle celebrated the Christmas season under the glow of harbor lights and the dazzle of laser beams Saturday with the Holiday on the Harbor Street Festival and Boat Parade of Lights. “The festival was a great success and we could not have asked for more perfect weather,” said Lori Dougherty, director of the Carrabelle Chamber…
During the height of the COVID epidemic, Apalachicola hosted trick-or-treat with costumed kids making the rounds in the center of the downtown.. This year, though, the city got back to one of its most cherished traditions, a Beggar’s Night in which little ghosts and goblins, and Snow Whites and Sleeping Beauties, went from door-to-door and…
It’s going to be two nights of some of the finest gospel music anywhere, on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 10 and 11 at First Baptist Church of Apalachicola. Pastor Jeff Strickland and the church are introducing the first, and to be annual, Gospel Music Showcase which they are calling the “Singing in the Sand” concert….
Get ready for the biggest weekend of the year, as thousands of visitors will flock to Franklin County for the 60th annual Florida Seafood Festival. The weather is expected to be in the mid to high 70s, with no rain in sight, just plates full of oysters and shrimp and fair food. The festival, organized…
The second in a series of Susan McClendon art workshops later this month will focus on Nature Journaling, taught by a master of the art form. The workshop will be instructed by Melanie Humble, an education specialist at the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, on Saturday, Nov. 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at…
The upcoming Florida Seafood Festival, Nov. 3 through 5 at Apalachicola’s Battery Park, will have an array of bounce houses to keep kids from bouncing off the walls at home. In a news release Thursday afternoon from the Florida Seafood Festival volunteer board, the festival reported that a year-long effort to secure kids’ entertainment for…
There’s a surprise in store for those lucky enough to catch this weekend’s performance of the Panhandle Players’ production at the Chapman Theatre in Apalachicola. That’s because there won’t be the old school auditorium seats. They’re gone. What there is instead is the surprise, along the lines of dinner theater seating and homemade desserts by…
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