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Franklin County commissioners said no Tuesday morning to a plan to convert commercially zoned land in Eastpoint into a residential area that the owner intends for workforce housing.

By a 4-1 vote, …

The Ilse Newell Fund for the Performing Arts opens its 2022 concert series with  “Christmas! Classical to Jazz,” this Friday and Sunday, Dec. 10 and 12.

The holiday concert …

By summer of 2023, Apalachicola could have a museum devoted to African-American history and culture, provided a state grant for funding come through. At a special meeting Monday evening, city commissioners voted unanimously to devote $250,000 in matching monies to the project, which is seeking a $1 million African-American Cultural and Historical grant from the…

I am perplexed as to how I found a plastic menorah at a garage sale in Eastpoint. How had it found its way there? It was likely not from a Jewish home. This I based not on any official U.S. Census calculation, but entirely on supposition. Trust me here, Jews have a way of knowing…

When Santa Claus sailed into Apalachicola Friday afternoon, he surely knew he would be getting a grand reception. But just how large, that may have come as a surprise to the Jolly Old Elf and his wife. With crisp sunny skies, Riverfront Park was the gathering place for what was no doubt Apalachicola’s largest ever…

Delays in state agencies placing a 16-year-old Franklin County youth into a situation where he’ll stay out of trouble has prompted Sheriff A.J. Smith to go right to the top of the Department of …

A little more than two years after former Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer made a surprise visit to Apalachicola’s annual Independence Eve Celebration, to announce that a Navy ship would be named after the city, the USNS has been christened. In a Nov. 13 ceremony at the shipyard in Mobile, Alabama where it was…