A fresh revival of Apalachicola history

If you haven’t visited the Orman House, and the adjacent Chapman Botanical Gardens, you are missing the blossoming back into life of what has become a sprawling portrait of Apalachicola’s history. With the early 19th-century house, administered under the auspices of the Florida Park Service, shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Chapman Gardens becoming…

Labor force grows, jobless rate rises

Franklin County’s unemployment picture dimmed in June, as the size of the labor force grew According to preliminary numbers released Friday by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, the preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in June was at 4.5 percent, eight-tenths of 1 percentage point higher than the May rate of 3.7 percent. This snapshot…