ECCC’s to-go Christmas a huge hit
Elder Care Community Council of Franklin County is so incredibly grateful for the outreach and kindness from the community during this holiday season. We have received many generous donations …
Veterans Corner: Saying goodbye to 2020, finally
I once again address this keyboard in attempt to spread a bit of information for the veterans. To say this has been a bit of a weird year would be an understatement! Moving forward let us meet the …
Lanark News: Get ready to greet a great 2021
Hi Y'all,
Happy New Year!
I don't think that I have ever wanted a year to pass like I do 2020 and mine hasn't been near as bad as many people. To be a nonpolitical person I find …
Chasing Shadows: Carrabelle becomes a town on Christmas Eve
Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on the founding of Carrabelle.
In 1877, a real estate developer from Minnesota named Oliver Hudson Kelley set up a tent on the east side …
Lanark News: It is better to give, than to take
Hi Y'all,
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
I am not available right now, but wanted to pop in to say “Merry Christmas.” Of course, I have just a few things to say, as …
Lanark News: Whatever you celebrate, we are all loved
Hi Y'all
Eight more days till Christmas, one more day of Hanukkah and nine days before Kwanzaa! Whatever you celebrate, we are all loved, we are all different, created so that not one human …
Butts & Clucks to help greying hens, aging roosters
John Solomon, director of the Apalachicola Bay Chamber of Commerce, has announced a new twist to the fourth Butts & Clucks Cook-Off on the Bay at Battery Park in Apalachicola, to be held Jan. 21 …
Lanark News: Stop feeding bears, secure your cans
Hi Y'all
Well, I put away the Thanksgiving decorations and started in on the Christmas decorations. I don't put out near what I used to, but I have to do some. Even the little I put out …
The Poet’s Voice: Elegy for a Brown Pelican
Unnerving, to see a dead brown pelican,
A splatter of dark feathers on asphalt,
Waving in the wind from passing cars,
Wet red pigment drying on the tar
On the bridge from island to …
Chasing Shadows: Museum highlights Pearl Harbor, wartime Christmas
Camp Gordon Johnston World War II Museum in Carrabelle is presenting two special exhibits in December.
One exhibit at the museum will commemorate the 79th anniversary of the Japanese attack at …