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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 nations survival. That frightful events only bright spot was that it brought our nation together for a short while. Twenty years have…
The Gulf County Sheriff’s Office has identified and obtained warrants for a man suspected in six residential burglaries on Cape San Blas. According to a statement released in the late afternoon on Sept. 2, investigators first began looking for the man, Kevin Schoelles, 36, of Apalachicola, in mid-August after a cooler was reported stolen from underneath a resident’s…
Mike Youngblood could turn the air conditioning down in the new welding lab if he wanted to. But he doesnt, because he wants his 32 students to sweat. When they go out in the field welding, thats how its going to be, he said. Like when they get a job. And thats what theyre going…
The Sumatra Volunteer Fire Department is growing, and continues to seek local residents for help. A recent raffle of a 50-quart Pelican ice cooler, donated by Taylors Building Supply, raised more than $500 for the department. Apalachicolas Joe Gander was the winner The new fire chief, Dakota Boone, was on hand for the presentation. We…
Where the parking lot used to be for the Hut Restaurant, which was hopping up until 2005 when Hurricane Dennis pushed a big chunk of it into the bay, nothings been there ever since, except junked cars that had to be cleared out, and an occasional food truck. But now giant piles of dirt and…
People see my Hunker Down byline and ask if Im 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…
Large families are always an interesting collection of individuals with curious, and occasionally unique characteristics, but still have a common connection running through all the relations. Getting members together reveals both the similarities and the differences. Holiday get-togethers frequently highlight the vast variations. There is always the uncle with the tacky jokes, the quiet cousin…
The Carrabelle city commissioners plan to adopt the rollback rate, ensuring the city will receive the same amount of ad valorem revenues for the upcoming fiscal year it received during the current year. At the August 25 budget workshop for the general fund and water and sewer budget, commissioners agreed in principle to adopt the…
Apalachicola City Commission Anita Grove swept into her second term of office Tuesday night, capturing two-thirds of the citywide vote. Grove, 61, of 174 Avenue C., tallied 443 votes, or 65.9 percent of the total, to 229 votes for challenger Amy Hersey, 40, of 451 25th Street. Grove won in all three voting categories …
One of two escaped inmates from the Gulf County Detention Facility has been apprehended, the other remains at large. The search for Chad Edward Johnson, 43, expanded outside of Gulf County on Wednesday after he escaped with his cellmate, Rex Aaron Veasey, Jr., 29, some time before 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. The two inmates, both last…
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