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For the first time in more than 30 years, Florida fishing regulators are on the verge of allowing for a limited, highly regulated harvest of the goliath grouper. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will take up a staff recommendation to allow for the catch of juvenile-sized goliaths in all state waters except for…

Under sunny skies Saturday morning, Franklin County Youth Football  took two out of three contests on the field in Carrabelle against Port St. Joe at the season-opening Jamboree. In the opening Peewee game, coaches Darrian Turner, and assistants  Scott Kelly and Levi Odom engineered a 22-0 shutout of the Buccaneers. In the  Tiny division, the team…

Women have been associated with the U.S. Navy from as far back as 1776, and have served aboard ships for more than a century, first as nurses and now as admirals. But until now, Camp Gordon Johnston Post 82 of the American Legion has not had a woman command its ranks. On Saturday evening, at…

Against a backdrop of the setting sun dropping over the still waters of the Apalachicola River, Jadyn Luberto on Monday evening was named the 2021 Miss Florida Seafood at a brief ceremony at Riverfront Park. Luberto was selected from amongst three young women who competed, the others being Sydney Shuman, of Eastpoint, who finished as…

Franklin County school leaders are lending support to the governor’s proposal announced Tuesday to eliminate the annual spring Florida Standards Assessment test, and instead rely on less stressful progress monitoring tests administered in the fall, winter and spring. “I know kids who have test anxiety and when it’s a one-shot deal it’s very hard on…

It’s been two years since Franklin County’s elementary school kids played football competitively, with a cheer crew on the sidelines urging them on. That’s all going to come to an end this Saturday, as Franklin County Youth Football and Cheer takes the field in Carrabelle to take on Port St. Joe at the season-opening Jamboree….

There’s a lot of ways to pay for the shoreline at Alligator Point to be renourished, and the taxpayers there, and throughout the county, have at least until the 2023 Florida legislative session to figure it out. But that doesn’t mean it’s too soon to start building a consensus, or lack thereof, on a project…

Mike Youngblood could turn the air conditioning down in the new welding lab if he wanted to. But he doesn’t, because he wants his 32 students to sweat. “When they go out in the field welding, that’s how it’s going to be,” he said. “Like when they get a job.” And that’s what they’re going…

Where the parking lot used to be for the Hut Restaurant, which was hopping up until 2005 when Hurricane Dennis pushed a big chunk of it into the bay, nothing’s been there ever since, except junked cars that had to be cleared out, and an occasional food truck. But now giant piles of dirt and…