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Wewahitchka sets 2023 election dates
The City of Wewahitchka’s Municipal Election will be held Tuesday, August 15
Polls will open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. CDT.
Registration books are now open at the office of John Hanlon, Gulf County supervisor of elections, and will remain open through Monday, July 17 at midnight.
Only voters registered in the city will be eligible to vote in the election.
Candidate qualifying begins Monday, June 5 at noon CDT and ends on Monday, June 12 at noon.
The office of mayor will be up for election.
This seat is currently held by Mayor Philip Gaskin.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.