Blessed with a significant growth in its tax base, Apalachicola city commissioners have decided to keep the millage rate unchanged at 8.3457 mills. Because the tax base has grown from $204.9 million this year to about $236.5 million in the upcoming 2023-24 fiscal year, the city will have about $1.92 million in ad valorem tax…
Apalachicola-born Betty J.C. Wright, who rose to the highest ranks among Oklahoma educators, died at age 81 on Sept. 7 in Oklahoma City. A graduate of Quinn High School, the former Betty Croom married Robert L. Wright, Jr., the day after Christmas, in 1941. She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Florida A&M…
Seems like the flies were more annoying than ever this summer, and still are as fall approaches. As soon as you want to step outside, those critters turn on their buzzsaws and start bugging you. Insects of the order Diptera, there are about a million fly species worldwide, upwards of 3,000 right here in Florida,…
Here’s a look at what’s happening this weekend in Gulf and Franklin counties. Carrabelle’s Country Market Saturday The Crooked River Lighthouse continues its Country Farmer’s Market this Saturday, July 29 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Lighthouse Park, 1975 Hwy 98 West, Carrabelle. The market is recruiting new and returning vendors, at a cost…
Apalachicola’s historic Middlebrook building, located at the corner of Water Street and Avenue E, is currently undergoing extensive repair and restoration to preserve and protect this historic landmark damaged during the 2018 Hurricane Michael. To commemorate the work and the history of this iconic landmark, the city is putting together a time capsule that will…
It’s a Florida county with a rich military tradition, dating back to the men who served in both the Union and Confederate armies buried in its cemeteries. From the heroes of World War I and II, to those trained in the 1940s at Camp Gordon Johnston for landings in the Pacific, to the groundbreaking U-2…
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has released the names of the two men involved in a single vessel boating accident on the Apalachicola River Saturday afternoon. The FWC said the vessel, with two adult males on board, collided with a tree leaning over the river, sometime before 4 p.m. Gary R. Tibbetts, 64,…
Here’s a look at some of the events happening in Gulf and Franklin Counties this weekend. WindMark Beach Music Festival The second annual WindMark Beach Music Festival will be held this Saturday, Sept. 9, from 2 to 7 p.m. EDT. This event will take place at different locations in the WindMark Beach Village Center. Attendees…
A 58-year-old Carrabelle man riding a bicycle out of his driveway on County Road 67 was struck and killed by a pickup truck Wednesday afternoon. According to a news release from the Florida Highway Patrol, at about 5:35 p.m. the bicyclist was traveling east out of a driveway in the 1600 block of CR 67…
The action at the new Alligator Point – St. Teresa Volunteer Fire Department’s new fire station Saturday afternoon was not about firefighters suiting up on a moment’s notice to rush off to a blaze, or first responders hurrying off to handle an urgent medical call. At least not yet. Rather, it was a giant party…
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