It started out with a series of cabarets, and then blossomed into the Calendar Girls, with prominent women from around the county adorning the months is not much more than their birthday suits. In 2007, Franklin Needs Inc. was established to strengthen the effort to fight breast cancer in Franklin County, and a festive evening…
No one was hurt Thursday afternoon after a fire broke out in a two-story commercial building at 165 Water Street, just to the southeast of the former Taranto and Sons seafood. With the use of foam and of water, the fire, which began sometime around 3 p.m. was extinguished within about two hours by crews…
The annual legislative delegation hearing in Apalachicola’s county commission chambers is usually filled with polite praise for the state senator and state representative working on Franklin County’s issues before the state. After all, they’re bringing home the berries for lots of hungry constituents, and there was no shortage of pointed requests for fiscal acorns that…
Panhandle Players open transformative season The Panhandle Players may produce plays but they are not playing around, with last week’s four-day run of “Rivers Edge” vivid proof of that. I’ll get to the play in a few paragraphs, but first, picture the whole of the Chapman Auditorium space transformed, both permanently with the recent removal…
There’s a surprise in store for those lucky enough to catch this weekend’s performance of the Panhandle Players’ production at the Chapman Theatre in Apalachicola. That’s because there won’t be the old school auditorium seats. They’re gone. What there is instead is the surprise, along the lines of dinner theater seating and homemade desserts by…
The proposed expansion of Weems Memorial Hospital, now expected to cost anywhere from $16 million to $23 million, was center stage at last week’s county commission meeting. Weems CEO David Walker, with representatives of Birmingham, Alabama-based healthcare architects TRO Jung | Brannen attending online, presented details of a pair of design options to the county…
Sheriff A. J. Smith, who over the past week has called into question how well FWC is managing the problem of bears in the county, has reached out to the governor for help, and it has had an effect. Smith said he received a call from Roger Young, executive director of the Florida Fish and…
Blessed with a significant growth in its tax base, Apalachicola city commissioners have decided to keep the millage rate unchanged at 8.3457 mills. Because the tax base has grown from $204.9 million this year to about $236.5 million in the upcoming 2023-24 fiscal year, the city will have about $1.92 million in ad valorem tax…
The passing five years ago of a beloved member of the St. George Island artistic community is breathing new life into the arts at the Holy Family Center. On Sept. 5, the Elder Care Community Council of Franklin County hosted the first of a series of Susan McClendon Art Workshops, sponsored by the St. George…
Apalachicola’s historic Middlebrook building, located at the corner of Water Street and Avenue E, is currently undergoing extensive repair and restoration to preserve and protect this historic landmark damaged during the 2018 Hurricane Michael. To commemorate the work and the history of this iconic landmark, the city is putting together a time capsule that will…
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