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…
You don’t have to leave Franklin County if you want to find the best beach in the United States. In fact, it’s just a short drive over the Bryant Patton Bridge, and then a left to the northeastern tip of St. George Island, in Dr. Julian Bruce St. George Island State Park. That’s because coastal…
Weems Memorial Hospital officials came before the county commission Tuesday morning with a financial report that showed some modest improvement over the past year. They left with the commissioners voicing emphatically that they had serious concerns about where things stood. The report came from Michael Kozar, the chief executive officer of Northwest Florida Community Hospital…
With the start of National Volunteer Appreciation Week April 16 to 22, Franklin County is recognizing and celebrating the invaluable contributions of volunteers in the community. For the past 13 years, Franklin County has been dedicated to honoring Volunteer Week with proclamations submitted to various local and state governments by John Solomon, director of the…
She posed with supermodels and she auditioned for a role as a museum. But last week, time and the river and a hurricane proved too much for Lady Louise, as a salvage operation commenced to pull her derelict wreckage out of the Mill Pond water. A crew from ACT Divecom went to work on bringing…
On what was once a barrow pit, an expanse of ditches dug to supply fill dirt for roadways, has sat the Franklin County High School for more than a dozen years, a fairly plain-looking set of brick buildings on a treeless landscape. Now, however, there are bright flowers and butterflies gracing the space between the…
It was a glorious day to take in some of Apalachicola’s most historic homes, and to enjoy the many enhancements that have been made by their newest owners. A large number of people took in the Historic Apalachicola Home and Garden Tour Saturday, the annual event for the past three decades sponsored by Trinity Episcopal…
In 1942, not long after graduating high school in Donaldsonville, a small town in southeastern Louisiana along the Mississippi River where it winds south from Baton Rouge through the parishes towards New Orleans, Bertus Robert joined the Navy.For the next two years, “Bert,” the youngest of 11 brothers and sisters, would serve as a radio…
On the eve of their upcoming first degree murder trial for the bludgeoning death five years ago in an Eastpoint motel of a South Florida woman with whom they were traveling through Franklin County, one of the two defendants pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon to second degree murder. Accompanied in the Apalachicola courtroom by her attorney,…
When the Apalachicola Bay Charter School’s pre-Kindergarten teacher Joy Floyd had a long-time dream, she did something about it. It was her hope to have the classes of these young ones create a sensory and food garden, all to be in keeping with the ideas found in the curriculum for these kids just embarking on…
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