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TDC mobile app scores a ‘Henry’

Franklin County has received the state’s highest tourism marketing award for the Florida’s Forgotten Coast mobile app. Visit Florida, the state’s marketing entity, presented the prestigious first place “Henry” award in the rural marketing category to the Franklin County TDC. Receiving the award at the annual Governor’s Conference in Hollywood. on Sept. 8, were Franklin…

Sedge a notorious family of pests

Large families are always an interesting collection of individuals with curious, and occasionally unique characteristics, but still have a common connection running through all the relations. Getting members together reveals both the similarities and the differences. Holiday get-togethers frequently highlight the vast variations. There is always the uncle with the tacky jokes, the quiet cousin…

The art of hunkering

People see my “Hunker Down” byline and ask if I’m a Georgia Bulldog fan. Well, no. That is actually a whole ’nother way of hunkering. And I am certainly not entrenching myself into some kind of super defensive position in readiness to take on a mad neighbor or an insistent door to door life insurance…

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Suspect nabbed in Cape San Blas burglaries

The Gulf County Sheriff’s Office has identified and obtained warrants for a man suspected in six residential burglaries on Cape San Blas. According to a statement released in the late afternoon on Sept. 2, investigators first began looking for the man, Kevin Schoelles, 36, of Apalachicola, in mid-August after a cooler was reported stolen from underneath a resident’s…

Will America survive?

Is America imploding? Is there any hope for our divided nation? Immediately following 9/11, I cringed every time I heard a plane fly overhead. Like so many others, I prayed for our nation’s survival. That frightful event’s only bright spot was that it brought our nation together – for a short while. Twenty years have…