It’s a big week for what they call the “Kill the Drill Coalition,” a push by a diverse coalition of environmental groups, the seafood industry, boat captains, beekeepers, community residents, businesses and other interested parties to rally against a Florida Department of Environmental Protection plan to grant a permit for test drilling for oil in…
The weather is getting colder, and that means it’s time to file into the warm confines of the high school gyms, because…..it’s time for basketball. December will be a busy time for boys basketball, as November was mostly spent with assembling teams and getting pre-season action underway. Wewahitchka was the first out of the gate,…
Members of the Porch Fest Apalach committee, from left, Heidi Nippe, Mick Barlament, Bonnie Kellogg, Cameron Baxley, and Marti Hoffman present Bring Me A Book Forgotten Coast’s Karen Kessel, second from right, with a check for $14,691 to support children’s literacy in Franklin and Gulf counties. (Not pictured is Liz Perkins). This money was raised…
From one corner of the Forgotten Coast to the other, Franklin and Gulf counties took time out on Veterans Day to honor the service of their many veterans of military service. Franklin County Schools held their program at the high school Nov. 9, and the First Baptist Christian Schools held their on Monday morning, Nov….
Unemployment along the Forgotten Coast showed little change last month. According to preliminary data released Friday by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, Gulf County’s jobless rate remained at 3.1 percent in September, while in Franklin, it dropped a tiny bit, from 3.6 to 3.5 percent. In Gulf County, four people left the jobless rolls,…
We haven’t had a lot of offshore reports this week, it’s been pretty bumpy. Shallow water wrecks and reefs have been paying off with a snapper bite. The water temperature has been running in the mid 70s. Black drum, especially the big uglys, are on the move; cut bait and dead shrimp should do the…
Over the past week, the red tide organism Karenia brevis was detected in 51 samples collected from Florida’s Gulf Coast, and in northwest Florida, it was observed at background and very low concentrations in Franklin County. Bloom concentrations (>100,000 cells/liter) were not observed. Satellite imagery from Nov. 4 continues to show a large offshore patch…
Local fisherman Dave Mason says the big red snapper have been cooperating, and he has been limiting out. The bigger ones have been caught free lining whole, dead cigar minnows, with some nice ones caught off the bottom over structure with cut bait. The beeliners have been good also between 10 and 20 miles offshore. …
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…
One of our local fishermen, David Mason, had a great trip with red snapper last weekend. He had several keepers with a nine-pounder topping the limit. He reports several vermillion being caught on live bait and cut bait. Inshore, trout and redfish are being caught just about anywhere there is water. White trout are under…
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