Seafood Festival has visitors ‘feelin’ alright’
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Seafood Festival has visitors ‘feelin’ alright’

The 60th annual Florida Seafood Festival last weekend is in the record books, and while it didn’t break any attendance records, the turnout was pretty respectable. “Attendance was up from last year,” said John Solomon, president of the all-volunteer board of directors. “Many vendors I spoke to said they had a very awesome year.” At…

Chasing Shadows: The Forgotten Coast, birthplace of Florida
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Chasing Shadows: The Forgotten Coast, birthplace of Florida

Sandra Cole Guest Columnist Let’s talk about some history of the area. You might remember in a previous article I mentioned Old Shell Road and part of Treasure Road in the St. Joseph Bay State Buffer Preserve. We will talk about it some more in this article.This week will feature pictures of Henry Drake, family…

Apalachicola homes get their fright on
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Apalachicola homes get their fright on

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…

Get ready for the Florida Seafood Festival!
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Get ready for the Florida Seafood Festival!

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…

Workshop to explore Nature Journaling
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Workshop to explore Nature Journaling

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…

Eastpoint, island open Halloween season
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Eastpoint, island open Halloween season

Friday night festivities kicked off a vivid Halloween 2023, with lots more on Tuesday night, when the ghosts and goblins came out to haunt the county. In the afternoon, it was time for the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office’s Fall-O-Ween event, where kids got a chance to carve their own pumpkins, play games and of course…

Porch Fest fills the streets
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Porch Fest fills the streets

It opened with the feel-good sound of the local ukulele band The Ukulillies, and it ended with the auctioning off of Dave Daley’s poster for the fourth annual Porch Fest, signed by each of the two dozen musical groups that played the three main stages and the 13 porches scattered throughout the neighborhoods of Apalachicola….

Trinity ordains its new priest
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Trinity ordains its new priest

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…

Seafood festival to offer array of bounce houses
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Seafood festival to offer array of bounce houses

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…