It was sunny and cold, just the way runners like it, and Saturday morning’s 5K Half Shell Hustle went off without a hitch or a cramp. Master race organizer Shelley Shepard attracted a field of 100 – 57 females and 43 males – as they took off at 8 a.m. and ran throughout the city….
The Batty Sisters have been at it for six years, and up until last Saturday, they had two third places and a second place to show for it. But at Saturday’s annual Apalachicola Oyster Cookoff, it was their chance to win the big one. This wacky, enthusiastic band took home the top prize for their…
The Chapman High School Class of 1959 held their 63rd class reunion at the lakeside home of Jerry and Cece Paulk of Panama City, and of Opp, Alabama on Nov. 9, 2022. Those in attendance were Tommy Huckabe, Sandy Howze, Penny Hicks Worden, Jerry Paulk, Lucretia Kirvin Biddle, Wilma Wright Reed, Gynelle Barber Bush, Rosemary…
How will you be observing the long weekend for Martin Luther King Jr. Day? Here’s what’s going on in Gulf and Franklin Counties. Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade will be held in downtown Port St. Joe on Monday, Jan. 16 starting at 10 a.m. EST. Click here…
The city of Apalachicola has agreed to serve as a liaison between Main Street and a future party, presumably a non-profit, in transitioning running of the city’s annual Independence Day Eve Celebration. The hammering out of the city’s role in assisting the transition came about following a lengthy back-and-forth between members of the Apalachicola city…
Riverfront Park in downtown Apalachicola will be a busy place Saturday as the annual Oyster Cook-Off gets down to business in its mission to raise money for the volunteer fire department. More than 40 paintings were created at the annual pre-cookoff paint party last week at the Apalachicola Center for History, Culture and the Arts….
This Sunday, Jan. 15, Venezuelan violinist Alphonso Lopez, and Venezuelan-born pianist Michelle Tabor will present a concert at Trinity Episcopal Church, 79 6th Street, in Apalachicola. Lopez, one of the most prominent musicians of his generation in Venezuela, is concertmaster of the Venezuela National Symphony Orchestra and was twice nominated for a Latin Grammy award….
Bickel journeys to remote Morocco In late November and December, while Morocco was becoming the first African and first Arab nation to reach the World Cup semi-finals, Richard Bickel was taking pictures. Not of the soccer matches, or of the large crowds gathering to watch the games on big screen televisions outdoors. Bickel, a well-seasoned…
When I was 12 or so… Seems like most movie and TV cowboys have issues nowadays. They abuse their families (think 2021’s “Power of the Dog”); murder unforgivingly (as in Eastwood’s 1992 film “Unforgiven”); or end up being crazed androids (in “Westworld,” the franchise begun in 1973, now an HBO series). Things were different when…
More than a decade after the last Bay Point Billfish Tournament, a new Blue Marlin tournament is coming back to the newly rebuilt docks at Point South Marina at Bay Point. A local group of four is spearheading the charge to put together The Bay Point Billfish Open, a weeklong dock party and fishing tournament…
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