One of our local fishermen, David Mason, had a great trip with red snapper last weekend. He had several keepers with a nine-pounder topping the limit. He reports several vermillion being caught on live bait and cut bait. Inshore, trout and redfish are being caught just about anywhere there is water. White trout are under…
On the upcoming busy Florida Seafood Festival weekend, be sure to carve out time for a special author event at Apalachicola’s Downtown Books. Axel Blackwell will be there at 11 a.m. ET on Saturday, Nov. 2, to sign copies of the books he co-wrote with the late Dawn Lee McKenna. He and Dawn’s daughter Kat…
The mental calculation of when to stay/when to go required a different formula than it did on Day 1, but Michael Frenette and Mark Robinson made the numbers work. In so doing, they tallied a two-day total of 23 pounds, 6 ounces and took over the Day 2 lead at the Yamaha Bassmaster Redfish Cup…
Ryan Rickard knew that a second title would not be spoon-fed to him, so he and partner Patrick Marsonek played a savvy game and positioned themselves well with a two-fish limit of 11 pounds, 4 ounces that leads Day 1 of the Yamaha Bassmaster Redfish Cup Championship presented by Skeeter at Apalachicola Bay. Qualifying through…
At a community-wide prayer service Oct. 17 at Redemption Point – Eastpoint Church of God, the Franklin County Republican Party joined in praying for fair elections, for the county and for defeat of Issues 3 and 4, which call for placing in the Florida constitution the right to an abortion and for use of recreational…
As anyone familiar with Franklin and Gulf counties well knows, stealing political signs around election time is a time-dishonored tradition, affecting local, state and national candidates. But one Seattle, Washington man decided earlier this month to pump things up a bit. On Oct. 16, Michael Todd Castle, 53, of Seattle, Washington, in Carrabelle aboard a…
Unemployment along the Forgotten Coast showed little change last month. According to preliminary data released Friday by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, Gulf County’s jobless rate remained at 3.2 percent in September, while in Franklin, it ticked upward a tiny bit, from 3.6 to 3.7 percent. In Gulf County, four people left the jobless…
With there remaining very few doubts that Donald Trump will carry both Franklin and Gulf counties in his bid for the presidency, due to the overwhelming number of voters registered with the GOP, the Democrats turned to a tri-county rally last week at the Fort Coombs Armory to gin up support for local candidates. Presented…
Students at the Apalachicola Bay Charter School are glowing eerily in the dark, but it’s not from the drinking water or from getting too close to radioactive plutonium. It’s actually being infused by their teachers, as part of a schoolwide effort that stems from ideas that about two dozen members of the faculty gleaned from…
Hi Y’all, I want to refresh you on the up-and-coming events in Lanark. I have been traveling but I will be home for all these great events. On Monday, Oct. 21 at Chillas Hall starting at 6:30 p.m. ET there will be a civic meeting with local leaders to discuss matters that concern our Lanark…
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