Helping to keep the Cape safe
On Thursday morning, Aug. 29 at Fire Station 2 on Cape San Blas, Cindy and Brendan and Murphy, at right, presented a $5,000 check on behalf of The Murphy Family Foundation to the non-profit South Gulf County Volunteer Fire Department to help support South Gulf County Fire and Rescue’s beach safety and water rescue programs, first responders and beach warning flag program. On hand to receive the donation were Valerie Homan, SGCVFD 501(c)3 treasurer, at left, and George Bisoglio, newly elected board member and certified water rescue volunteer.
For more information about the non-profit and how to volunteer or donate to the work being done in the community, please visit www.sgcvfd501c3.com.
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.