Ashley Forehand, is the newly elected Gulf County tax collector [ Submitted by candidate ]
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Forehand wins tax collector post

Tourist tax, school board referendums both approved

Republican Ashley Forehand has defeated Democrat Candye Lewis for the job of Gulf County tax collector.

In addition, both the Tourist Development Council lodging tax, and the school board millage, referendum were approved by large margins.



Stay tuned for complete results.



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.

Wendy Weitzel The Star Digital Editor

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