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Crooked River hosts market Saturday

The Crooked River Lighthouse is hosting an outdoor Country Market this Saturday, Sept. 18 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Lighthouse Park, 1975 Hwy 98 West, Carrabelle. The open-air market, at the foot of the lighthouse, now features fresh herbs and veggies from the Lighthouse’s own garden! In addition, local vendors from the community…

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TDC mobile app scores a ‘Henry’

Franklin County has received the state’s highest tourism marketing award for the Florida’s Forgotten Coast mobile app. Visit Florida, the state’s marketing entity, presented the prestigious first place “Henry” award in the rural marketing category to the Franklin County TDC. Receiving the award at the annual Governor’s Conference in Hollywood. on Sept. 8, were Franklin…

The art of hunkering

People see my “Hunker Down” byline and ask if I’m a Georgia Bulldog fan. Well, no. That is actually a whole ’nother way of hunkering. And I am certainly not entrenching myself into some kind of super defensive position in readiness to take on a mad neighbor or an insistent door to door life insurance…

Will America survive?

Is America imploding? Is there any hope for our divided nation? Immediately following 9/11, I cringed every time I heard a plane fly overhead. Like so many others, I prayed for our nation’s survival. That frightful event’s only bright spot was that it brought our nation together – for a short while. Twenty years have…

Afghanistan: Don’t blame the soldiers, blame entrenched D.C. elites

America cowers and runs from yet another country in which we should never have had a military presence. What is it going to take for us to limit the power of Washington in all matters of importance? The chaotic images of our botched evacuation of Afghanistan should further enforce what we all should know by…