Daddy woke me up at first light the morning after I graduated from college with a 28-inch McCulloch 142 chainsaw in his hand, Son, get up! Mothers got breakfast on the table. Weve got work to do. He was excited about the day. About life. About cutting whatever it was we were about to cut!…
For the first time probably ever, but certainly since Franklin Delano Roosevelts New Deal in the 1940s attracted a strong following in the rural South, Franklin County is now more red than blue. As of Tuesday, among the countys 8,150 registered voters, Republicans outnumbered Democrats 3,418 to 3,408, with 1,324 voters preferring to remain without…
Fire struck Port Carrabelle last week, but fortunately no one was hurt and there was little damage except for two sheds. If you are wondering where Port Carrabelle is, its the name given a stretch of homes under the Carrabelle bridge, on the west side, by the late Ben Watkins, a longtime attorney and landholder…
Franklin Countys tax base has fattened up considerably over the past year, growing in the neighborhood of 8 percent, based on the property appraisers initial good faith estimates. According to numbers provided the county commission at its June 1 meeting. Property Appraiser Rhonda Skipper estimated the combined taxable value for use in the 2021-22 budget…
A new interim manager, a good year for airplane traffic and a plan to bring in someone with an eye towards attracting business, are whats going on at the Apalachicola Regional Airport. Ted Mosteller, selected as interim manager June 1 after the resignation of Airport Manager Jason Puckett, offered a detailed report on what was…
COVID-19 vaccination rates lag in vast swaths of rural Florida compared to the rest of the state — a pattern that also has been seen in other areas of the country, a new report shows. Neither Franklin nor Gulf counties are immune. The report, released Friday by the state Department of Health, said 55 percent…
As far as business goes this summer, the Blue Parrot Ocean Front Café, and all the rest of the restaurants and vacation rentals on St. George Island, have the wind at the backs. But when it comes to throwing mullet on the beach outside the back door, everyone had the wind in their faces Saturday….
By the time I was 12, I was hooked on horror. First it was
grisly pulps like Tales from the Crypt and Vault of Horror, published from
1950-55 by EC/Entertaining Comics (though there
Its been a long time coming, more than six years, through expensive court fights, and heated city commission and school board meetings. And now, with that contentious fight now in the past, Apalachicola is about to give birth to the first large-scale affordable housing project in many years. A little more than a month ago,…
Today so many homes are connected to the internet. Whether you have internet connected light switches, a doorbell camera or maybe a Samsung refrigerator many of us have some connection to the
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