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Forehand, Cook elected tax collectors If there was any question that Democrats still held a seat at the elected officials’ tables in Franklin and Gulf counties, it was answered last week at the ballot box. Republicans took both of the countywide tax collector spots up for grabs in the two counties, as well as the…
Voters in both Gulf and Franklin counties gave an overwhelming endorsement of the school tax measures that were on last week’s ballot. In Gulf County, more than 80 percent of voters, or 6,865, gave a thumbs-up to renewing for another four years the one-mill levy for operational costs, just as they have consistently since 2008….
In a landslide win last week, Carrabelle voters elected city commissioner Sebrina Brown as their new mayor, to succeed Brenda La Paz, who stepped down earlier this year. Shown above dressed for the occasion at Saturday evening’s Lantern Fest at the Crooked River Lighthouse, Brown collected 529 votes, or 72.7 percent, to Danyell Robison’s 199,…
As part of the annual Veteran’s Day program Monday morning at the First Baptist Christian School in Apalachicola, these four students offer a song of thanks, and recite Psalm 34:8-13 before the congregation. Pictured from left are second graders Shiloh Harrison and Ava Moore, first grader Kevin Heath and second grader Mason Crosby. Later that…
Nowadays, when the Florida Seafood Festival holds its oyster shucking contest, it is invariably all men, almost always from area raw bars, who compete. But six decades ago, when the festival was first resurrected in the early 1960s from its turn-of-the-century origins, it was an Eastpoint woman who swept the competition. Helen Hicks, now in…
The Apalachicola Regional Airport will offer a salute to veterans as part of a day long Forgotten Cost Freedom Festival this Saturday, Nov. 16. Beginning at 10 a.m. ET and ending at 4 p.m.,, the festival will provide free admission and free parking as families are welcome to stop by and enjoy live music, a…
Hi Y’all, Happy Veterans Day week. The elections are over, it is time to settle down and be kind to your neighbors. Even in a small area like Lanark we have disputes. Being ugly to your neighbors is not the way that you solve who is going to be president of the United States. You…
Undergraduate and graduate students studying music can now apply for the DAR Marian Anderson Legacy Scholarship. Sponsored by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, the scholarship provides a one-time $5,000 award to one student annually who is pursuing undergraduate or graduate study in music. Marian Anderson (1897-1993) was a groundbreaking African American contralto…
Over the past week, the red tide organism Karenia brevis was detected in 51 samples collected from Florida’s Gulf Coast, and in northwest Florida, it was observed at background and very low concentrations in Franklin County. Bloom concentrations (>100,000 cells/liter) were not observed. Satellite imagery from Nov. 4 continues to show a large offshore patch…
Local fisherman Dave Mason says the big red snapper have been cooperating, and he has been limiting out. The bigger ones have been caught free lining whole, dead cigar minnows, with some nice ones caught off the bottom over structure with cut bait. The beeliners have been good also between 10 and 20 miles offshore. …
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