Franklin County jobless picture brightens
Franklin Countys unemployment picture improved in November, as the jobless rate dropped by four-tenths of 1 percentage point to 3.3 percent.
According to preliminary numbers released Friday
Aunt Lillian’s timely grace
Seventeen years ago, I reprised a Christmas column I’d written in the 1990s for a Texas newspaper.
The original column and the 2004 interpretation celebrated a holiday prayer conceived by my
County nixes Eastpoint workforce housing proposal
Franklin County commissioners said no Tuesday morning to a plan to convert commercially zoned land in Eastpoint into a residential area that the owner intends for workforce housing.
By a 4-1 vote,
Counties back redistricting plan for House District 7
Commissioners in both Gulf and Franklin counties have backed a proposal for reshaping House District 7 that would extend its boundaries to the south and east.
By agreeing to write letters of
Property owners pained by blocked-off Leslie Street
People who live or work along Leslie Street, the small street alongside the county courthouse that has been blocked off since before Sept. 2020, are losing their patience.
Beth Embert, owner of the Blue
Apalach trash pick-up to move out of alleys
A proposal to move pickup of Apalachicola trash cans from alleys behind homes to the street in front drew a strong whiff of dissent at the city commission meeting last week.
After plenty of
Fight erupts after heated boys soccer game
A bench-clearing brawl after the final whistle sounded marred what had been a tightly-fought physical boys soccer game in Eastpoint Wednesday night.
Port St. Joe walked off the field with a 3-0
A Christmas parade floats by
The line of 17 watercraft floated slowly along the Carrabelle waterfront, their glowing lights reflected in the calm waters.
On the shore onlookers cheered and whistled, wishing them a Merry
The swarm war future?
Aggravated bees attack unfortunate honey seekers from all directions. The mad birds in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” mastered the tactic, attacking en masse residents of a small Northern California
Seahawks face showdown vs. St. Joe tonight
Franklin County hasnt seen soccer this good in a long time.
The Seahawks, under the direction of coach Bill McCullough, upped their record to 7-1 Tuesday night, with a 4-2 win at home