Franklin County commissioners, upset at talk around the community that the Eastpoint dredge project would be further delayed, voiced their anger at a special meeting last week. The Jan. 26 meeting, called by Chairman Ricky Jones, focused on why it is that the dredge contractor has been slowed in its progress, apparently because the equipment…
In celebration of Florida’s Arbor Day, the city of Apalachicola’s Tree Committee gave away more than 70 live, young trees at the Mill Pond Pavilion Farmers Market on Saturday morning, Jan. 14. For those trees, though, that are dead and dying, the committee is asking the city to provide a safe and fitting end to…
Four Oysters in Search of a Pearl, a barbershop quartet with roots in Apalachicola, returns to the Forgotten Coast area to deliver personal Valentine serenades to waiting sweethearts. The serenades are often delivered as a complete surprise, whether at home, a place of work, while dining at a restaurant, at a private party, or wherever…
At its Thursday afternoon meeting, the Franklin County School Board is expected to accept the resignation of Donna Barber, a teacher in the district for the past 30 years, after district officials learned that a video visitation with an inmate had been conducted from her office at the school. Barber’s Jan. 24 resignation letter to…
As the 30-person crew from the Simple Alien TV production crew were packing up their gear after a weekend of filming an episode for season two of BBQ USA set to appear this summer on the Food Network, they were asked a simple alienating question. Are any of you vegans? K.C. Napper sheepishly wafted up…
Winter is usually a time of hardship for birds that live here or migrate through, as food is less plentiful. The bait fish have gone offshore and they have to learn a new way of hunting. When the temperatures dip below freezing, the threat is even greater to the poorly nourished avians, as they have…
High Five Dive Bar is going into the craft beer business, partnering with an established Jackson County brewer with ties to Franklin County. On Friday night, bar owners Becky and Ronnie Jones announced that they had teamed up with Brian Walker, owner of Southern Fields Brewing in Campbellton, to produce their own local Coastal Soul…
Franklin County High School has its first female athletic director Principal Danielle Rossen said elementary school teacher Anna Bull has been selected to fill the athletic director post, which has an annual stipend of $4,614. “I’m really excited about this opportunity,” said Bull. “I feel like there is so much we can do to grow…
Schoolteacher suspended after he names her In a Facebook Live post last week, Sheriff A.J. Smith ignited a firestorm when he called out, by name, four women he said were abusing the video communication system in their conversations with inmates at the jail, mainly through sexual improprieties on their end of the telephone. Among the…
It was sunny and cold, just the way runners like it, and Saturday morning’s 5K Half Shell Hustle went off without a hitch or a cramp. Master race organizer Shelley Shepard attracted a field of 100 – 57 females and 43 males – as they took off at 8 a.m. and ran throughout the city….
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