Brenda Ash as mayor, Donna Duncan as commissioner, both unopposed Apalachicola City Commissioner Anita Grove will face Amy Hersey in the Sept. 7 Apalachicola municipal elections, while interim Mayor Brenda Ash and newcomer Donna Duncan will be unopposed. Supervisor of Elections Heather Riley said no opponents had filed by the noon deadline Friday to oppose…
The Apalachicola community turned out Sunday evening to the Chapman Auditorium to honor the memory of Mayor Kevin Begos, Jr., who passed away June 19 at the age of 63. Remembering Begos as a son, brother, friend and neighbor, three speakers Karen Cox-Dennis, Chuck Lombardo and Rose Griffin – offered remarks that touched on…
Making an entire elegant meal from scratch isnt easy, neither is serving it up, but thats what the students taking part in the Summer Arts
Institute did last month.
And the critical
Hi Y’all, Happy Fourth of July! Have a fun, safe holiday. Carrabelle will light up with fireworks on Friday, July 2 for the holiday. Be careful out there and enjoy the fun. There will be a small parade at 5 p.m. with bikes and scooters. The road could be blocked at that time. Apalachicola’s fireworks…
TALLAHASSEE — Florida is about to find out how much a week of sales-tax freedom translates into capitalism.
Starting Thursday, in what lawmakers dubbed Freedom Week, people will receive sales-tax breaks when they make a wide range of purchases that could help spur them to be more active after being limited by the coronavirus pandemic.
Shoppers from Thursday through July 7 will be able to avoid paying all or part of sales taxes on purchases such as grills; bicycles; fishing and camping gear; kayaks and canoes; tickets for concerts, movies and ball games; gym memberships; boxes of softballs and sleeves of tennis balls; and even sunscreen.
Frederick S. Humphries, Sr., Ph.D., under whose leadership Florida A&M University was named College of the Year, and who was a lifelong cheerleader and advocate for his alma mater, died Thursday, June 24 in Orlando. He was 85. The Apalachicola-born Humphries, a renowned scholar, charismatic, visionary, and innovative administrator and admired public servant, left a…
Tami-Ray Hutchinson is named as interim commissioner In a show of unanimity, five days after the death of Mayor Kevin Begos, Apalachicola city commissioners voted Thursday evening, June 24 to name Mayor Pro Tem Brenda Ash as interim mayor. Im humbled, said Ash, following the 3-0 approval of a motion by Commissioner Despina George, and…
More people are paying off their real estate taxes, and as a result, fewer people are buying up their delinquent taxes. County Tax Collector Rick Watson said last months sale of delinquent taxes yielded about $876,410 in sales, with 711 individual certificates. This represents fewer total certificates, but a slightly higher total value, than last…
The negative effect of the coronavirus pandemic on language arts scores among Franklin County third graders this past spring appears to have hit the Franklin County Schools much harder than it did the Apalachicola Bay Charter School. The Florida Department of Education reported that 54 percent of third-grade students statewide this year scored a satisfactory…
Franklin Countys unemployment numbers improved slightly in May, even as the size of the labor force grew According to preliminary numbers released Friday by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, the preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in May was at 3.8 percent, two-tenths of 1 percentage point better than the April rate of 4.0 percent….
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