Apalachicola News

This undated file photo provided by Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa shows Duke Kahanamoku Beach in Waikiki, Hawaii.

T he following report is provided by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office. Arrests in this week's report were made by officers from the Apalachicola Police Department , Carrabelle Police Department , Florida Highway Patrol and Franklin County Sheriff's Office .

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 test for possible hearing problems and to pass out free telephones for the hearing-impaired. The Center, at the corner of NW Avenue "F" and NW Ist Street in Carrabelle, can be reached by calling ... (more)

Healthy Start's fifth annual Baby Shower will be at 4 p.m. ET Thursday, May 23 in the Centennial Building, 300 Allen Memorial Way in Port St.

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.

Work on the Chapman Auditorium Building was commenced in 1931. The cast stone structure was designed by E. R. James to contain eight classrooms and an auditorium.

It came by boat as Union soldiers and shackled slaves, and it came across Battery Park as bonneted ladies firing cannons.

The Nest summer program will be hosting two upcoming registration nights. If your child plans to attend the summer program at either the Eastpoint or Carrabelle sites, you must attend one of these events with the child you plan to enroll.

Healthy Start's fifth annual Baby Shower will be at 4 p.m. ET May 23 in the Centennial Building, 300 Allen Memorial Way in Port St.

When retired Army National Guard Gen. Bobby Howell passed away, the Apalachicola native left a legacy that is still honored in .

Apalachicola's Joseph Taranto, a sergeant with the Florida National Guard's 870th Engineer Company out of Crestview, came home this week after nearly a year of service in Afghanistan, surprising his sons and their classmates at school.

The Apalachicola Municipal Library is very excited about the Civil War weekend, scheduled for May 17-19, hosted by the Apalachicola Maritime Museum.

The following report is provided by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office. Arrests in this week's report were made by officers from the Apalachicola Police Department , Carrabelle Police Department , Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Franklin County Sheriff's Office .

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.

Artist-in-residence Dolores Lowery has spent the last four weeks teaching Gulf and Franklin County students different school subjects through the creativity of art.

We call it "Apalach." Natives, transplants and frequent visitors, alike, have affectionately adopted this abbreviated form for Apalachicola.

Negro Fort , African Fort , and Fort Apalachicola . Listed in the National Register of Historic Places , the Fort Gadsden Historic Site is managed by the U.S. Forest Service .

Healthy Start's fifth annual Baby Shower will be held Thursday, May 23 at 4 p.m. EST in the Centennial Building, 300 Allen Memorial Way, in Port St.

Four people were arrested in three separate drug busts handled by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office during the last week of April.

The Florida Highway Patrol says 25 year old Jessica Lee Davis was backing her pick up truck out of the driveway when the toddler walked behind the right front tire.