Red wave sweeps over Forgotten Coast
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Red wave sweeps over Forgotten Coast

Forehand, Cook elected tax collectors If there was any question that Democrats still held a seat at the elected officials’ tables in Franklin and Gulf counties, it was answered last week at the ballot box. Republicans took both of the countywide tax collector spots up for grabs in the two counties, as well as the…

School levies triumph in both counties
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School levies triumph in both counties

Voters in both Gulf and Franklin counties gave an overwhelming endorsement of the school tax measures that were on last week’s ballot. In Gulf County, more than 80 percent of voters, or 6,865, gave a thumbs-up to renewing for another four years the one-mill levy for operational costs, just as they have consistently since 2008….

Carrabelle elects young mayor
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Carrabelle elects young mayor

In a landslide win last week, Carrabelle voters elected city commissioner Sebrina Brown as their new mayor, to succeed Brenda La Paz, who stepped down earlier this year. Shown above dressed for the occasion at Saturday evening’s Lantern Fest at the Crooked River Lighthouse, Brown collected 529 votes, or 72.7 percent, to Danyell Robison’s 199,…

Record turnout expected for election
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Record turnout expected for election

Tuesday’s Nov. 5 general election is already breaking records. As of Monday in Franklin County, more than 37.5 percent of the county’s 7,240 active eligible voters had cast ballots, with 1,538 casting them at early voting locations at the supervisor of elections office in Apalachicola and at the Carrabelle annex. Another 1,174 had voted by…