At a community-wide prayer service Oct. 17 at Redemption Point – Eastpoint Church of God, the Franklin County Republican Party joined in praying for fair elections, for the county and for defeat of Issues 3 and 4, which call for placing in the Florida constitution the right to an abortion and for use of recreational…
With there remaining very few doubts that Donald Trump will carry both Franklin and Gulf counties in his bid for the presidency, due to the overwhelming number of voters registered with the GOP, the Democrats turned to a tri-county rally last week at the Fort Coombs Armory to gin up support for local candidates. Presented…
A misprint in a sample ballot set out to Franklin County voters has gotten a lot of folks scratching their heads. In a mailing sent out earlier this month to all of the county’s roughly 7,100 registered voters, the candidates for county tax collector were mistakenly listed as Republican Ashley Lister Forehand and Democrat Candye…
It isn’t often that Franklin County is a place where people come to when there is a hurricane. More often it is where they flee from. But in the case of last week’s Hurricane Milton, evacuees from central and south Florida flocked here to avoid the ravages of the pending hurricane, zeroing in on the…
Twelve kayaking volunteers of Apalachicola Riverkeeper are in the final stages of preparing for a 107-mile journey down the entire Apalachicola River, from Chattahoochee to Apalachicola, The annual Rivertrek launches in Chattahoochee on Wednesday, Oct. 23, and after camping along the way, they’ll arrive in Apalachicola five days later on Sunday, Oct. 27. Family, friends…
A trio of dedicated Franklin County restaurant people – Danny Itzkovitz, Patrick Kelly and Zack Craig – returned Monday to the devastation, wrought by Hurricane Helene in Horseshoe Beach, shown above. The three left Monday evening with a food truck and a camper as they set about serving first responders, work crews and the general…
Ten teams will compete for their share of a $100,000 purse when the 2024 Yamaha Bassmaster Redfish Cup Championship presented by Skeeter travels to Apalachicola Bay Friday through Sunday, Oct. 25-27. Tournament launches and weight reveal will be at Scipio Creek Marina, at 301 Market Street, in Apalachicola. “We are extremely excited to bring this…
The Florida Association of Chamber Professionals installed its 2024-25 board of directors during the board meeting at their annual conference Sept. 24-25 at the Marriott Boca Raton at the Boca Center, Boca Raton. John Solomon of the Apalachicola Bay Chamber of Commerce was selected to serve his second term on the board, which is the…
Volunteers across Franklin County removed over two tons of trash and debris from the shorelines and landscape on Saturday, Sept. 21. The 220 volunteers of the annual International Coastal Clean Up, fanned out across 14 sites from Bald Point State Park to Apalachicola’s Seafood Landing Park, removed litter and debris, including cigarette butts, cans, vape…
As of 11:30 p.m. ET, about 3,500 customers in Franklin County are without power. According to FindEnergy.com, an independent organization with no utility or consumer advocacy influence, 3,516 out of 22,756 tracked meters, or roughly 15.4%, were without power in Franklin County. The outages were for customers of Duke Energy, which serves 11,403 customers in…
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