Exuberant dancing, and rousing drumming highlighted the finale Friday evening of the Community Moving Education’s five-week summer camp. Held at the Armory, the choreography and its costuming punctuated a camp season for about 15 young people, now in its third year. Founded by French Haynes, who worked as a dancer, English and special needs teacher,…
Forgotten Coast celebrates nation’s independence With government offices closed both Thursday and Friday, last week turned into a sprawling six-day party in Gulf and Franklin counties for America’s 248th birthday. From Carrabelle to Wewahitchka, most every night featured fireworks, beginning on July 1 in Eastpoint, with its third annual Freedom Festival. The Eastpoint Civic Association…
Eastpoint, Apalachicola, St. George Island and Carrabelle each marked the Fourth in style
Throughout the Forgotten Coast, families gathered to celebrate the spirit of independence that is woven into the fabric of America. They ate, they played, they listened to music and they enjoyed fireworks, all part of a celebration of the nation’s 248th birthday. Essential to the holiday is the play of children, and in both Franklin…
All middle and high school girls are invited to attend a special Glow event on Saturday afternoon, July 20 at the St. George Island Methodist Church. The SGI Women of Faith group is providing a host of complementary services, including manicures, hairstyling, make your own stretch bracelets, free shopping at the Glow Boutique, and home-cooked…
Carrabelle will wrap up a week’s worth of fireworks along the Forgotten Coast Saturday night, with a display of pyrotechnics set to go off at dark-thirty on July 6. The show had been originally scheduled for Friday, July 5 but had to be postponed after a glitch developed with the display. City officials said the…
Sunday’s eighth annual Forgotten Coast Sea Turtle Festival at George Core Park in Port St. Joe was a perfect day for turtles. For humans, it had its pluses and minuses. A sunny morning began the day, and the turnout was strong as locals and visitors took in over 70 arts and crafts vendor booths, 12…
With the exception of Tuesday July 2, every evening during next week’s honoring of 248 years of America’s Independence will have fireworks along the Forgotten Coast. On Monday, July 1, the action gets underway in Eastpoint, with the Freedom Festival in Patton Drive Park starting at 5 p.m. sponsored by the Eastpoint Civic Association. There’ll…
The Franklin County Public Library’s Summer Reading Program continues its series of fun events with the highly anticipated Animal Tales Zoofari Earth on Friday, June 28. The program features animal ambassadors from around the globe with six different exotic animals from six different continents. Children and adults alike have the opportunity to get up close…
In the ninth year of its local observance in Port St. Joe, and the fourth year since it was designated a federal holiday, and the 159th year since it marked that day in Texas, June 19, when a Union general delivered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas, Gulf County marked Juneteenth in…
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