Mardi Gras parade fills downtown Port St. Joe
The good times rolled down Reid Avenue on Tuesday evening as the Forgotten Krewe hosted their annual Mardi Gras parade.
Hundreds of people participated in the event, and the sidewalks on both sides of downtown Port St. Joe were lined with spectators.
Following the parade, the Haughty Heron held a party with free food and live music by JB’z Zydecozoo.
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Prior to then, she interned for Oklahoma-based news wire service Gaylord News and for Oklahoma City-based online newspaper NonDoc.com during her four years at the University of Oklahoma, from which she graduated in May with degrees in online journalism and political science.
While at OU, Weitzel was selected as Carnegie-Knight News21 Investigative Fellow among 30 top journalism students from around the country. She also was senior editor managing a 12-person newsroom in coordination with Oklahoma Watch, a non-profit news organization in eastern Oklahoma.