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…
Three traffic accidents in the last week in the county took the lives of two people, seriously injured two others, and killed a bear. On Monday, at about 6:05 p.m., a sedan was traveling east on US 98 approximately two miles west of Jule Road, which is just west of the Apalachicola wastewater department site,…
Two people are dead following a collision early Saturday afternoon between two charter boats in Scipio Creek. According to a report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the accident took place Saturday just minutes before noon, between a 23-foot Parker vessel piloted by Austin Finch, 23, of Apalachicola, and a 21-foot K2 Marine,…
It’s going to be a busy weekend in Gulf and Franklin Counties. Which one of these local events will you be attending? Cinco de Mayo celebrations Celebrate Cinco de Mayo at several local venues this Friday: Quatro Locos Tacos and Cantina in Port St. Joe will have live music and dancing performances from 11 p.m….
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