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The fact that the 2021 Seahawk football season is a rebuilding year was in evidence Friday night,  as Franklin County fell 35-7 at home to the Rocky Bayou Christian Knights. A promising opening drive by the Seahawks was stymied by penalties, and after Franklin County turned it over on down at midfield, and contained the…

On Saturday morning, Franklin County Youth Football  again took two out of three from their visitors, as they defeated Liberty County on the field in Carrabelle. In the opening Peewee game, coaches Darrian Turner, and assistants  Scott Kelly and Levi Odom engineered their second straight shutout, this time a 30-0 blanking of the Bulldogs. In the …

The Seahawk cross country team ran at the Port St. Joe Home Meet and did pretty well for themselves. While the girls were no match for a dominant Port St. Joe squad, all set a personal record, which is what a team wants to do at this point, continue to post their best times. “Everyone…

It’s called “Devious Licks,” and it’s a destructive game of theft and vandalism among kids across the country. And it’s landed in Franklin County. It’s a viral 2021 TikTok trend in which American students post videos of themselves stealing, vandalizing, or showing off items they stole primarily from their schools, typically from bathrooms. Allen Ham, a school…

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…

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…

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…

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…