The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council presented the 2023 Law Enforcement Officer/Team of the Year award to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Northwest Offshore Patrol Vessel team. The team consists of Lt. Scott Smith, Senior Officers Matt Cushing and Pete Rockwell, Officer Specialists Tom Nelson, Matt Land, Greg Matechik, and Officer Tristan…
We haven’t had a lot of offshore reports this week, it’s been pretty bumpy. Shallow water wrecks and reefs have been paying off with a snapper bite. The water temperature has been running in the mid 70s. Black drum, especially the big uglys, are on the move; cut bait and dead shrimp should do the…
The Crooked River Lighthouse will host a Full Moon Lighthouse Event on Friday, Nov. 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. ET in Carrabelle. For more info call (850) 697-2732 or email carrabellelighthouse@gmail.com. The climb at the Cape St. George Lighthouse on St. George Island will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Evening tower climbs cost…
Lighthouse glows with Lantern Fest Seventeen years after it first started in 2007, Lantern Fest, an outdoor festival known for its display of colorful, hanging lanterns, once again illuminated the night surrounding the Crooked River Lighthouse outside Carrabelle. The brainchild of Carrabelle artist Joan Matey, with contributions by local artists, the festival on Saturday night, Nov….
Forehand, Cook elected tax collectors If there was any question that Democrats still held a seat at the elected officials’ tables in Franklin and Gulf counties, it was answered last week at the ballot box. Republicans took both of the countywide tax collector spots up for grabs in the two counties, as well as the…
Voters in both Gulf and Franklin counties gave an overwhelming endorsement of the school tax measures that were on last week’s ballot. In Gulf County, more than 80 percent of voters, or 6,865, gave a thumbs-up to renewing for another four years the one-mill levy for operational costs, just as they have consistently since 2008….
In a landslide win last week, Carrabelle voters elected city commissioner Sebrina Brown as their new mayor, to succeed Brenda La Paz, who stepped down earlier this year. Shown above dressed for the occasion at Saturday evening’s Lantern Fest at the Crooked River Lighthouse, Brown collected 529 votes, or 72.7 percent, to Danyell Robison’s 199,…
As part of the annual Veteran’s Day program Monday morning at the First Baptist Christian School in Apalachicola, these four students offer a song of thanks, and recite Psalm 34:8-13 before the congregation. Pictured from left are second graders Shiloh Harrison and Ava Moore, first grader Kevin Heath and second grader Mason Crosby. Later that…
Nowadays, when the Florida Seafood Festival holds its oyster shucking contest, it is invariably all men, almost always from area raw bars, who compete. But six decades ago, when the festival was first resurrected in the early 1960s from its turn-of-the-century origins, it was an Eastpoint woman who swept the competition. Helen Hicks, now in…
The Apalachicola Regional Airport will offer a salute to veterans as part of a day long Forgotten Cost Freedom Festival this Saturday, Nov. 16. Beginning at 10 a.m. ET and ending at 4 p.m.,, the festival will provide free admission and free parking as families are welcome to stop by and enjoy live music, a…
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