Eastpoint News

Hank Garrett, of Eastpoint, has announced plans to seek election to the post of county commissioner from District 5. Garrett faces incumbent Bevin Putnal, of Carrabelle, in the Aug.

The Franklin County Public Library's Summer Reading Program will travel to Antarctica and Australia this week.

Punctuated by the roar of fighter jets, the rumble of helicopters and the wail of bagpipes, Apalachicola christened its Veterans Memorial Plaza on Saturday morning before a large, flag-waving assembly.

The Deliverance Tabernacle Church, 535 Avenue A, in Eastpoint, will host a car wash on Saturday, July 12 starting at 9 a.m. All proceeds are going to the youth group to help fund an Aug.

A determined group of Franklin County women will take it off, but not all the way, every day of the year in 2009.

The Franklin County Public Libraries Eastpoint and Carrabelle branches will be closed Friday, July 4 and Saturday, July 5 in observance of Independence Day.

For the first time in at least three decades, Franklin County's property values have dropped, bringing into concrete focus the tight budget year that looms for Apalachicola, Carrabelle and the entire county.

Ida Cooper Elliott, 1600 Bluff Road, Apalachicola, has qualified for the ballot to run for the office of county Supervisor of Elections.

Franklin County Clerks of Courts Marcia Johnson, Tax Collector Jimmy Harris, County Commission Noah Lockley, Jr.

The contractor on the U.S. 98 project will continue to have multiple lane closures throughout the project next week, according to a news release from the Florida Department of Transportation.

Less than two months after the county commission amended the comprehensive plan to give it a crucial go-ahead, the Porthaven project, a multi-million dollar mixed-use project slated to radically transform the ...

A group of investors, most from Fayetteville, has sued Chambers Bank of North Arkansas and several developers, claiming they were misled about a Florida waterfront development and that their investments were ...

A group of investors filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Chambers Bank of North Arkansas, a loan officer and local developers Mitchell Massey, Edward Davis, Morgan Hooker and Rick Hancock.

Franklin County High School made first use of the brand-new cafetorium on its new consolidated campus in Eastpoint Friday night, as 56 members of the first Seahawks class graduated from the new consolidated ...

By a nearly two-to-one margin, Franklin County voters on Tuesday passed a four-year school tax referendum that will earmark a half-mill in property taxes each year towards employee wages and benefits.

Joseph Rickards, of Eastpoint, has announced his plans to seek the post of county commissioner from District 1. Rickards is running as a Democrat and would face incumbent Russell Crofton, of St.

On August 29, 2005, a cataclysmic natural event changed forever the way the United States viewed storms.

Summer Reading will begin in mid June. This popular six-week program helps students in Kindergarten through sixth grade maintain and improve their reading skills during the summer with brand new books and lots ...

It isn't yet written in concrete, but the upcoming county ballot is beginning to be set in stone.

This report represents some events the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission handled over the past week; however, it does not include all actions taken by the Division of Law Enforcement.