The Secret Lives of Words: Belfry bats, Bela, and Batman
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The Secret Lives of Words: Belfry bats, Bela, and Batman

When our beloved Apalachicola Times editor David Adlerstein confessed recently that he had bats in his belfry (the phrase dates to the late 19th century.), I was afraid his ultra-long workweeks had finally driven him batty. Then I realized he meant literally, not metaphorically. A “colony” of the flying mammals (sometimes also called a “camp,”…

Lady Seahawks blank Bucks, to face Liberty County for regional title Tuesday
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Lady Seahawks blank Bucks, to face Liberty County for regional title Tuesday

Between Sarah Ham on the mound and the infield doing their job all night long, the Bozeman Lady Bucks didn’t have a real good chance of putting runs on the board Thursday night in Eastpoint. The sophomore hurler allowed just a double and two singles, striking out nine and walking one and not allowing any…

At war and in peace, builders revel in memories
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At war and in peace, builders revel in memories

In 1942, not long after graduating high school in Donaldsonville, a small town in southeastern Louisiana along the Mississippi River where it winds south from Baton Rouge through the parishes towards New Orleans, Bertus Robert joined the Navy.For the next two years, “Bert,” the youngest of 11 brothers and sisters, would serve as a radio…

Christina Araujo [ FCSO }
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Araujo pleads guilty to Seiden murder

On the eve of their upcoming first degree murder trial for the bludgeoning death five years ago in an Eastpoint motel of a South Florida woman with whom they were traveling through Franklin County, one of the two defendants pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon to second degree murder. Accompanied in the Apalachicola courtroom by her attorney,…