It looked pretty darn good for Bennett Rash going into the toss-off round of the 31st annual Mullet Toss on St. George Island Saturday. The Franklin County native had thrown for 121 feet in the adult round, five feet better than the two other qualifiers, Florida State University student Julian Guerra and Kolton Lawson. So…
The Apalachicola High School Class of 1973, the first class to graduate from the “new” school, will host its 50th class reunion on Saturday, June 17. The reunion will be from 5 to 10 p.m. at Apalachicola Masonic Lodge #76 F & AM, at 3 Chestnut Street in Apalachicola. BYOB, but bottled water and sodas…
In the three years since it began during the Covid crisis, the Forgotten Coast Performing Arts studio in Apalachicola has been a worthy successor to the decades-long dance program started and sustained by the late Pam Nobles. Last month, the dancers showed how they have come into their own, bringing to life a technically sound…
The Franklin County Schools have a vaping problem and it’s costing them money, as well as harming the health of students. At a lengthy discussion at the May 24 board meeting, school board members listened as school officials outlined a situation in which students as young as those in elementary grades are being found using…
They’re not made in China and they’re not made by a machine. Rather, the calloused hands of a longtime oysterman detail the vivid images on oyster shells, using just pens of different colors and an appreciative eye for the fine details of the shrimp boats and oyster boats that once flourished in Franklin County. Most…
In an exuberant ceremony Friday night, May 26 at Franklin County High School, 60 graduates of the Class of 2023 received their diplomas and stepped out to take on the world. The gymnasium was filled to capacity, and all went smoothly throughout the ceremony, with some humor as well, as Principal Danielle Rosson was treated…
The meaning of Memorial Day is most often absorbed through the head, but sometimes it trickles into the heart. In moving remarks Monday morning before a large gathering in Apalachicola’s Veterans Memorial Plaza, standing before the Three Servicemen Statue Detail, County Commissioner Ottice Amison shared insight into what flows from the heart. After thanking Al…
More than five years after she was killed in an Eastpoint motel, Aileen Seiden is on the verge of having justice meted out to the two people charged in her death. One of them, Christina Marie Araujo, 43, of Palm Beach, decided earlier this month to plead guilty to a lesser charge of second-degree murder,…
It’s a small, tightly-knit graduating class, getting their educations at the Island Drive headquarters of the Franklin’s Promise Coalition in Eastpoint.On Friday night, at a ceremony at the amphitheater of the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, they were presented their sheepskins. While not formally under the auspices of the Franklin County School District, the school…
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…
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