Young harriers begin cross-country campaign

The Franklin County cross country team, youthful and determined, are putting their best feet forward as the season gets underway. Last Saturday, at Dueling Summits 2021 at Elinor Klapp-Phipps Park in Tallahassee, coach Kati-Morgan Hathcock brought eight runners to compete at the event, hosted by the Maclay School. All their times but one were season’s…

Newman remembered for her wildflower ways

Laurel Newman lived her life like a wildflower,  and yet could stand firm as an oak, and forever she will be memorialized with both.  In a ceremony Sunday afternoon at the Crooked River Lighthouse, where she served as a docent, the former reporter for the Apalachicola and Carrabelle Times was remembered by family and friends….

Museums to get help from new grant funding

The Raney House plans to apply for monies to fortify the deteriorated columns in the front. The Carrabelle History Museum would like an elevator, and the Camp Gordon Johnston World War II Museum wants to pave their driveway. The Crooked River and Cape St. George lighthouses, the Apalachicola Center for History, Culture and the Arts,…

COVID positives rise in Franklin, fall in Gulf

Gulf County is seeing continued improvement in its positivity rate for COVID-19, while Franklin County is going in the opposite direction According to a news release from the Florida Department of Health serving both counties, during the first week of August, nearly two out of every five people tested for the coronavirus in Franklin County,…