• Vrooman park repairs complete

    Repairs to Vrooman Park are now complete and the park officially opened to the public Monday. Nikki Millender, director of parks and recreation, said total cost for repairs to the park was ...

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  • Old Glory at the Boat Club

    The Lanark Boat Club proudly raised a larger new American flag on April 18 that can be seen on the premises. Officers pictured, from right to left, are Commodore Norm Gempel, Dockmaster...

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  • News Briefs May 23, 2013

    Senior Center offers hearing help today The Franklin County Senior Citizens Center will have a group of health care professionals in the Center on Thursday, May 23 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to tes... READ MORE

  • A live oak growing

    Members of the Apalachicola Tree Committee this month planted a live oak in Battery Park, one of the first new plantings of a tree in the park in many a year. Pictured from left are city staffer ... READ MORE

  • County jobless rate down to 5%

    Franklin County saw another drop in its unemployment rate for April, as it declined to the 5.0 percent level, fifth lowest in the state. According to preliminary numbers released Friday by the ... READ MORE

  • Water wars victory for Georgia

    The US Senate passed a bill last week that could be a death warrant for Apalachicola Bay and the local seafood industry. The bill now heads to the House. The Water Resources Development Act... READ MORE

  • Past present: Civil War relived, reexamined

    The Civil War took Apalachicola by quiet, pensive storm last weekend. It came by boat as Union soldiers and shackled slaves, and it came across Battery Park as bonneted ladies firing cannons. ... READ MORE

  • Bank decries Key House sale

    At a foreclosure sale on the Franklin County courthouse steps last week, a Port St. Joe man may have scooped up one of Apalachicola’s most famous historic homes for a song.

    A very sweet song,...

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  • Eastpoint gets golf cart zone

    Golf carts are now legal on most streets north of US 98 in Eastpoint.

    At Tuesday’s county meeting, commissioners voted unanimously to allow the use of golf carts on streets north of US 98 ...

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  • Chapman listed as ‘endangered’ site

    Apalachicola’s Chapman School and Auditorium is now considered one of Florida’s most endangered historic sites, according to the Florida Trust For Historic Preservation. The Trust announced its... READ MORE

  • Franklin, Massey visit World War II Memorial

      Special to the Times Mr. Robert “Bob” Franklin of Lanark Village, along with 80 other World War II vets, made a one day round trip visit last weekend to the World War WII Memorial in... READ MORE

  • News Briefs May 16, 2013

      Register your child for The Nest summer program The Nest summer program will be hosting two upcoming registration nights. If your child plans to attend the summer program at either t... READ MORE

  • Bobby Howell’s legacy honored

      When retired Army National Guard Gen. Bobby Howell passed away, the Apalachicola native left a legacy that is still honored in Franklin County. On May 8, the National Guard Foundation in... READ MORE

  • UF scholars: Chapman Auditorium in good shape

      Two University of Florida restoration experts are probing the condition of Chapman Auditorium and its role in the community. Morris “Marty” Hylton, assistant professor, in UF’s Colle... READ MORE

  • County seeks $12 million in NRDA projects

      Franklin County officials are hoping to get a chunk of $58 million in early restoration projects for Florida that have been proposed by the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Asse... READ MORE

  • Case worker charged with sexual misconduct

    A Carrabelle man who works as a case manager for the Apalachee Center stands accused of having sexual relations with a female client with a history of mental health issues. Jim McLeod Mitchell,... READ MORE

  • Only A Mother’s Love

    We have all heard it said that a mother’s love lasts forever and a mother will stand by and defend her child no matter what. And we all know not to get between a mama bear and her cubs. I have ... READ MORE

  • No place like homes: More than 700 join in annual tour

    The rains came softly Saturday to Apalachicola, and did not deter a steady flow of visitors who took in Trinity Episcopal Church’s 21st annual Home and Garden Tour.

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  • News Briefs May 9, 2013

    Muffins for Moms this Friday at FCS School moms of students in the Franklin County School’s grades kindergarten through eighth are invited to stop by the media center this Friday, May 10 from 7... READ MORE

  • Carrabelle passes on Water Management Services

    At the Thursday, May 2 regular meeting, Carrabelle city commissioners voted unanimously not to purchase Water Management Services Inc. of St. George Island (WMSI).

    Company owner Eugene Brown ...

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