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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…
The magical season of the Franklin County Darlings team, which took them all the way to representing Florida at the World Series in Prince George, Virginia last weekend, has ended. After losing 20-9 to South Carolina on Sunday afternoon, the team of 7 and 8 year old girls bounced back that afternoon to down North Carolina…
TALLAHASSEE Bobby Bowden, the former head football coach of the Florida State Seminoles, announced that he has a terminal illness. The Tallahassee Democrat is reporting that Bowden released a statement about the situation Wednesday. Ive always tried to serve Gods purpose for my life, on and off the field, and I am prepared for…
When America entered into World War II, Willie McNair Sr. was a man of 22. He would go on to serve overseas in the Pacific, as part of the forces of the U.S. Army that would vanquish and occupy Japan. That was more than 75 years ago, and last Friday evening, on the occasion of…
We left the house and drove up to North Carolina. The mountains were spectacular, the cooler temperatures refreshing and the folks we met along the way were most friendly. Next time Im going in a U-Haul truck. I saw a washing machine sitting out by the road just south of Clyde that looked better than…
Franklin Countys 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…
The low frequency droning is unmistakable. The casual flight pattern belies the potential agony of an encounter and the real possibility of a painful attack from multiple directions. Wasps in Franklin and Gulf counties, and most other locales, are known for their dyspeptic nature and vile retaliation if provoked. They are the grumps of mini…
When my parents started handing me a weekly allowance, it was just a quarter. Even though RC (Royal Crown) Colas and my favorite snack, Big Fig bars, cost only a nickel each, it seemed to me 25 cents didnt go very far. At 12 or so I got to be a bit of an entrepreneur…
I was recently invited to moderate a ladies high tea for Gospel Express Ministries. I searched until I found the perfect dress. It fit perfectly if I didnt mind giving up breathing for the day. Needless to say, I had to search for a different dress a larger-sized dress. In the middle of…
A month ahead of budget time, Sheriff AJ Smith is pushing strongly for raises for the people in his department. And now that the county commissioners have the results of a study they commissioned on pay rates and job classifications, it looks like sheriffs office employees, as well as those who work for other county…
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