In speeches at Stanford University in the mid-1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr coined the term Two Americas. He described the then starkly different lives and opportunities of social classes in America. Like many cool things, that term was stolen from an African American and co-opted by white liberal Democrats. It was used as divisive…
It was about as complete a Halloween week as can be imagined, full of fall festivals, all wrapped up with weekend theatre and a ghost walk and finally Beggar’s Night on Sunday evening. The Live from Apalach production by the Panhandle Players Friday evening, directed by Natalie Parsley, was a lot of fun, with appearances…
If Jim Rudnick had wanted to keep the 2,300-square foot church building that served for nearly 50 years the local congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, as part of the 2.4-acre land deal he closed on in September, he would have had to agree to conditions he hadnt encountered in 30…
Franklin Countys middle school boys basketball coach has resigned his position, and been placed on administrative leave from his job as a fifth grade paraprofessional, after a relative of one of his players raised strong objections to a comment the coach made pertaining to the young mans sexuality. The incident in question arose following the…
Their legendary major league ballplayer father was a master storyteller, and now Jimmy Bloodworths two sons are following in his base path by putting their own stories down on paper. River Rats and Salty Dogs, a debut novel by Apalachicolas Leon Bloodworth, and We Who Remain by Orlando’s Darryl Bloodworth, a legal thriller, both appeared…
The Florida Division of Emergency Management has backed Apalachicolas appeal of a more than half-million-dollar claim that FEMA had rejected based on a recent rule change regarding roads submerged by flooding. If the Oct. 29 decision by Melissa Shirah, FDEMs recovery bureau chief stands, then Leo Bebeau. the citys s finance director, will succeed in…
Ottice Amison to reign as King Retsyo This past Sunday, country singer Drew Parker and his wife Mallory took their 19-month-old daughter out trick-or-treating back in Nashville. My wife got very creative, she got her little wagon and made it look like a bathtub, said Parker. She added bubbles and made it into a…
Franklin County commissioners on Tuesday morning put an emphatic kibosh, at least for the time being, to a nearly two-year long effort by St. George Island activists to incorporate as a town. By a unanimous vote, commissioners rejected a request from a member of the working group that advocates for incorporation to place a non-binding…
All eyes will soon be focused on a 26-acre tract of land north of the Franklin County Sheriffs Office on State Route 65. Thats because Franklin Countys Community Land Trust, a non-profit group working to expand the stock of housing that middle-income working people can afford, has approached the school board in hopes of securing…
Grand jury ups charge to first-degree murder The man accused of murdering an Apalachicola man in front of his 23rd Street home in Dec. 2019, and wounding the mans father, plans to mount an insanity defense. Joseph Bodiford, attorney for Michael C. Baucham, Jr., 35, of 122 Avenue M, last month filed a motion before…
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