Lighthouse glows with Lantern Fest Seventeen years after it first started in 2007, Lantern Fest, an outdoor festival known for its display of colorful, hanging lanterns, once again illuminated the night surrounding the Crooked River Lighthouse outside Carrabelle. The brainchild of Carrabelle artist Joan Matey, with contributions by local artists, the festival on Saturday night, Nov….
As part of the annual Veteran’s Day program Monday morning at the First Baptist Christian School in Apalachicola, these four students offer a song of thanks, and recite Psalm 34:8-13 before the congregation. Pictured from left are second graders Shiloh Harrison and Ava Moore, first grader Kevin Heath and second grader Mason Crosby. Later that…
Nowadays, when the Florida Seafood Festival holds its oyster shucking contest, it is invariably all men, almost always from area raw bars, who compete. But six decades ago, when the festival was first resurrected in the early 1960s from its turn-of-the-century origins, it was an Eastpoint woman who swept the competition. Helen Hicks, now in…
The Apalachicola Regional Airport will offer a salute to veterans as part of a day long Forgotten Cost Freedom Festival this Saturday, Nov. 16. Beginning at 10 a.m. ET and ending at 4 p.m.,, the festival will provide free admission and free parking as families are welcome to stop by and enjoy live music, a…
Hi Y’all, Happy Veterans Day week. The elections are over, it is time to settle down and be kind to your neighbors. Even in a small area like Lanark we have disputes. Being ugly to your neighbors is not the way that you solve who is going to be president of the United States. You…
The Apalachicola Farmers Market is this Saturday, Nov. 9 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET at the Mill Pond Pavilion at the end of Market Street. For more info email farmersmarket@cityofapalachicola.com.
Lantern Fest will be celebrated this Saturday, Nov. 9, from 6 to 10 p.m. ET at Crooked River Lighthouse, 1975 Highway 98 West, in Carrabelle. For more info, email carrabellelighthouse@gmail.com or call (850) 697-2732.
The St. George Lighthouse Association, in partnership with SGI Veterans Reveille Group and the 106th American Legion in Apalachicola, invites everyone to attend the Veterans Day ceremony in Lighthouse Park on Monday, Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. ET.
On Monday Nov. 11 at 9 a.m. ET, the First Baptist Christian School of Apalachicola, at 46 Ninth Street, will present a Veterans Day program in honor of all veterans, in all branches of service, those still serving and those who gave their lives, and the POW/MIA soldiers. In their honor, names of those from…
The Franklin County Schools annual Veterans Day program, presented by the school’s National Honor Society, will be in the high school gym on Friday, Nov. 8 beginning at 9 a.m. ET.
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