UPDATE: FCI kitchen worker charged with smuggling in cocaine
A 33-year-old food service employee at Franklin Correctional Institution has been arrested for smuggling into the prison carefully-packaged cocaine in what authorities say was intended for
Weather forecast prompts Thursday school closure
Both the Franklin County Schools and the Apalachicola Bay Charter School will be closed on Thursday, March 31 due to a possible thunderstorm.
“Out of an abundance of caution, Superintendent
Gulf, Franklin open Friday to gag grouper harvest
State waters off the coast of Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson and Taylor counties will open to recreational harvest of gag grouper starting Friday. April 1.
This regional season, which will
Seahawk Shocker: Softball team shuts out #9 Wakulla
Backed up by power from her teammates at the plate, Franklin County freshman pitcher Sarah Ham hurled a three-hit shutout in Crawfordville Tuesday night, as the Seahawk softball team surprised
Holmes County native blazes newspaper career
When Sue Riddle Cronkite was a young girl growing up in Holmes County, and tried out for the Ponce De Leon girls basketball team, she got a rude awakening into the rough-and-tumble of the contact
Money for Weems, Apalach infrastructure, miss state budget
Three big ticket items, including a proposed $7 million for George E. Weems Memorial Hospital, failed to make it into the 2022-23 state budget, but Franklin Countys representatives in
Sharing the joy of reading
The Franklin County Schools youngest students celebrated the wonderfulness of reading last week by coming in out of the rain.
The annual Literacy on the Lawn event was moved inside Thursday
SGI fire chief suspended following racial remark
Following a racially charged encounter Saturday evening on St. George Island, the chief of the St. George Island Volunteer Fire Department has been suspended by the departments board of
Boones three-hitter quiets St. Joe 4-1
Seahawk senior Gage Boone twirled a three-hitter as the Franklin County Seahawks varsity baseball team downed Port St. Joe 4-1 March 22.
Boone lasted six innings, allowing three hits and one run
Florida Department of Law Enforcement commissioner stepping down
The head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is stepping down after 38 years with the agency.
Commissioner Rick Swearingen advised members of the agency on Friday he will leave the post