Franklin County Tax Collector Richard Watson has announced the 2024 Kids Tag Art winners All fifth graders in Franklin County were invited to compete for small cash prizes by drawing a specialty license tag with a theme of Historical Franklin County. Leeah Ward from the Franklin County School took first place. Second place went to…
Everything was coming up roses last Friday at the opening reception of the Art in Bloom Exhibition at The Joe Center for the Arts. Over $500 in prize money was awarded to artists whose entries were chosen by juror Cindy Thau. “I was wowed by the creativity and quality I saw in the entries overall,”…
The local chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma International Society of Key Women Educators held a Franklin County Superintendent Candidates Forum Tuesday, April 16 at ED Corps High School. Both candidates, incumbent Steve Lanier and opponent Jill Rudd, participated, shared their platforms, and answered questions from the almost three dozen people who attended. Delta Kappa’s president…
The Carrabelle Chamber of Commerce will host the 2024 Carrabelle Riverfront Festival this Saturday, April 27 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. along the harbor. This free, family- and pet-friendly event will feature the Adventure Family Circus, with three exhilarating aerial and acrobatic shows, a spectacle the whole family will enjoy. Also joining the festival…
After several residents questioned the plan, and several came forward to defend it, a divided Apalachicola city commission earlier this month approved of a plan by the Florida State Parks to add bathrooms and a permanent covered pavilion to the Chapman Botanical Gardens adjacent to the Orman House Historic State Park. At the April 2…
Nearly a year after their boats collided in the Apalachicola River on April 29, 2023, two Apalachicola boat captains have been charged with vessel homicide stemming from the collision. On April 20, Austin Jarrett Finch, 24, and James Ellis Maxwell, 60, both of Apalachicola, were charged with vessel homicide, a second degree felony, following an…
Organizers of the annual SGI Brewfest on St. George Island reported a record turnout for Saturday’s competition that saw 60 breweries compete for best-of-show prizes. More than 1,200 tickets were sold out three weeks before the single-day event opened, which was the seventh in the series. Independent brewmasters from around the country – plus several…
In tribute to the memory of Carol Guild, who was instrumental in the growth of the Ilse Newell Fund for the Performing Arts, this year’s final concert will feature mezzo soprano Jessica Ann Best, accompanied on the piano by Guild’s brother Rob Goodling. The show this Sunday, April 28 at Trinity Church in Apalachicola begins…
The Porter House, a Queen Anne-style home built around 1901, highlights the Historic Apalachicola Home and Garden Tour Saturday, May 4, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Now in its 30th year, the annual event hosted by Trinity Episcopal Church, 76 Sixth Street, showcases some of the town’s most distinguished homes, both old and new….
Almost exactly six years since the evening he pummeled to death a woman he claimed he asked to marry him just weeks earlier, Zachary Abell will spend the rest of his life in a state prison for the crime. Dressed in the county jail’s orange jumpsuit, a sharp contrast to the three-piece suit he wore…
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