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Walker, Smith right choices for Alton Luther Simmons, Jr. FacebookTwitterEmail We, are a coalition of Black Alton natives who remain civically engaged in our hometown community, support Brant Walker for Mayor and Tammy Smith for Alderwoman. Under Walker’s leadership downtown Alton is no longer ravaged by 100 year floods, city streets are being paved, home ownership assistance programs have helped 200 Altonians achieve the dream of home ownership, Pre covid unemployment was at a very respectab...

Chasing Shadows: Carrabelle becomes a town on Christmas Eve By Tamara Allen Special to the Times Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on the founding of Carrabelle. In 1877, a real estate developer from Minnesota named Oliver Hudson Kelley set up a tent on the east side of the river where the Crooked and New Rivers joined and emptied into Apalachicola Sound. He moved in his wife and four daughters and declared himself the mayor. He began immediately to organize a community named...