Franklin County Sheriff A.J. Smith has released the name of the man whose body was found floating Monday afternoon by law enforcement officials in Apalachicola’s Mill Pond, just off Scipio Creek. In a Facebook post, the sheriff said the body has been identified at that of Derwin Black, 22. He said Black had lived in…
A longtime Franklin County school bus driver will face a hearing before a Tallahassee administrative law judge, and possible termination by the school board, after an investigation by school officials found multiple instances of her using her cell phone while driving a bus. At the March 28 school board meeting, the board voted 3-2 to…
After several residents questioned the plan, and several came forward to defend it, a divided Apalachicola city commission earlier this month approved of a plan by the Florida State Parks to add bathrooms and a permanent covered pavilion to the Chapman Botanical Gardens adjacent to the Orman House Historic State Park. At the April 2…
Almost exactly six years since the evening he pummeled to death a woman he claimed he asked to marry him just weeks earlier, Zachary Abell will spend the rest of his life in a state prison for the crime. Dressed in the county jail’s orange jumpsuit, a sharp contrast to the three-piece suit he wore…
A vacation home on St. George Island with a commanding view of the Gulf of Mexico was devastated by fire Wednesday night that saw firefighters battling the blaze during the torrential wind and rain. According to Jason Timbert, a firefighter with the St. George Island Volunteer Fire Department, the blaze erupted at just before 11…
There is such a long list of what the Panhandle Players did not do last weekend in performing the final show of their 2023-24 season, that I feel compelled to share these pronounced omissions so obvious throughout the staging of the Tony Award-winning farce “Lend Me A Tenor” at the Chapman Theatre. For example, the…
Registration is about to open for the next Susan McClendon Art Workshop, to be held next week, which will focus on photography. Highly regarded local photographer Charlie Sawyer will teach the workshop “Taking Better Photos with Charlie Sawyer” on Wednesday, April 17 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Franklin County Extension Office, 261 Dr….
After announcing in a March 25 letter she would not seek re-election, Carrabelle Mayor Brenda La Paz stepped down from office on Sunday. In a letter to City Administrator Courtney Dempsey, La Paz said “the reasons for my resignation range from personal, health, family, and financial. “I will not get into specifics as these matters…
A group of physicians, headed by Port St. Joe resident Dr. Huy Nguyen, have recommended to Franklin County Commissioners a plan to convert the small critical access hospital in Apalachicola into the newly created Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) designation, and to enter into talks to have them purchase Weems from the county. Nguyen, an emergency…
Diver explores history of Empire Mica A week shy of seven months after the day that will live in infamy marked the United States’ formal entry into World War II, an infamous night brought the war home to the Forgotten Coast. Beginning just after midnight on Monday, June 29, 1942, about 21 miles due south…
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