“We just closed on our million-dollar home. Our children will be going to the best schools in the country, of course …” I’ve never heard anyone say these exact words, but we’ve all heard similar remarks, especially at family or class reunions. It’s no fun being around a boastful person. I don’t even like being…
The St. George Island United Methodist Church’s winter GLOW (Go Light Our World) event on Jan. 13 in the church’s fellowship hall offered 26 middle and high school girls an environment to boost self-esteem, to learn and grow as well as simply be giggly girls for the afternoon. GLOW is based upon Ephesians 5:8, “for…
At a small dinner party Dec. 28 at the Red Pirate Family Grill & Oyster Bar in Eastpoint, the family of Apalachicola’s Buddy Wayne Butler celebrated his 80th birthday. Atop the cake was emblazoned a photo of Buddy Wayne and his late wife Carolyn, working together in Apalachicola Bay on the oyster boat that they…
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…
For many years, the Times and the Star have run Letters to Santa from school children, affording readers an opportunity to peer into the hearts of the minds of youngsters during the Christmas season. This year, we are again offering them to readers, but with a twist on the tradition. The idea comes from a…
Forget your fruit cake and your figgy pudding. If there’s one sweet delight that best symbolizes Christmas, it’s a cookie, and area school kids, from Wewahitchka to Apalachicola and parts in between, got in the spirit of cookie decorating last week. In Apalachicola, it was a chance for Head Start kids and pre-kindergarteners from the…
In three separate ceremonies over two days, the county paid tribute to its veterans. The first Veterans Day program was at the First Baptist Christian School on Friday morning, in the church sanctuary where the students there presented a traditional program of songs and readings, blending historical passages like the Gettysburg Address, the preamble to…
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….
From the very last pew of the overflowing sanctuary, Dot Hill raised her hand softly when the question was asked if any congregants had been present the last time Apalachicola’s Trinity Episcopal Church ordained a priest. That ordination, in the 1838 sanctuary of what is now the second oldest continuously serving church in Florida, had…
Apalachicola-born Betty J.C. Wright, who rose to the highest ranks among Oklahoma educators, died at age 81 on Sept. 7 in Oklahoma City. A graduate of Quinn High School, the former Betty Croom married Robert L. Wright, Jr., the day after Christmas, in 1941. She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Florida A&M…
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