Nearly five years after it was closed in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, the Gulfside IGA has been sold to the investors who own the Gibson Inn, the Best Western Apalach Inn and other hospitality-related properties. The deal closed June 13, with the property at 425 Highway 98 in Apalachicola being sold by Gibbs &…
There’s going to be a lot of workshops next week for the Apalachicola city commission, and chief among them will be the review of an encroachment matter affecting the construction of the Gibson Inn expansion on Market Street and U.S. 98. The matter surfaced at the June 6 meeting, when it came time for the…
It’s been vacant for more than a year, a long-standing church in Carrabelle with a once vibrant congregation, and the denomination hated to part with it. But last month, the state organization decided it was time to sell the Carrabelle Church of God and its 2.5-acre site. On May 22, the sale of the church…
Following a whirlwind soft opening last month, the new Izzy’s Cafe, owned by Isabel Pateritsas, marked a grand opening June 5 with a ribbon cutting by the Apalachicola Bay Chamber of Commerce. A descendent of the Nichols’ family, known for their stewardship of the Owl Cafe in its early years, Pateritsas, shown snipping the ribbon…
A workshop last week to address the growing presence of travel trailers, RVs and mobile homes – amidst neighborhoods where homes are growing in price and shrinking in availability – brought into sharp focus one of the thorniest issues county commissioners now have to face. How do you preserve safe neighborhoods, where people adhere to…
In 1942, not long after graduating high school in Donaldsonville, a small town in southeastern Louisiana along the Mississippi River where it winds south from Baton Rouge through the parishes towards New Orleans, Bertus Robert joined the Navy.For the next two years, “Bert,” the youngest of 11 brothers and sisters, would serve as a radio…
The Apalachicola Regional Airport has about as strong, and unified, support as it has had in years, with the county commission solidly behind a newly created advisory board empowered to weigh in on the airport’s future. The commissioners each chose a representative, not necessarily from their district, to sit on the Airport Operation and Economic…
It’s been two years since the DaVita Kidney Care shuttered its Port St. Joe facility, leaving local patients without nearby options. Many drove to Tallahassee or Panama City to receive their kidney dialysis treatment three times a week. Others went more frequently than that. But on Thursday, March 23, at the ribbon cutting for the…
The end of an era for movie rentals in Franklin County will come to an end next month when the county’s nearly four-decade-old video store will shut its doors. So, if you want to beef up your collection of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, now is the time to do it. Terry Towe, who has owned…
A high-profile mixed-use development in Eastpoint, approved by the county in July 2019, has met with a wrinkle. The hitch came at the county commission’s Feb. 21 meeting when commissioners were asked to reckon with changes to the terms of the planned unit development that will govern the proposed 56-acre Serenity Seaside Resort. The resort…
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