Adlerstein named editor of The Star
Special to the Star
A veteran reporter who has steered the Apalachicola Times for the past two decades will be expanding those duties to take the helm at The Star.
David M. Adlerstein, reporter and editor since Jan. 2002 of the weekly newspaper serving Franklin County, is adding Gulf County to his assignment, and will serve as editor overseeing both the Star and the Times.
These two longstanding weekly newspapers, together with the Holmes County Times-Advertiser and Washington County News, were recently purchased by Neves Media Publishing, based out of Bay County, from Gannett Media Corp.
The Secret Lives of Words: A wonderful bird is the pelican
By Rick LaFleur Columnist
A young grandson proclaimed to us one afternoon, out of the blue, “dogs don’t have souls.” My ever-wise soulmate Alice replied kindly, “But, I think they do : by soul (Latin
anima) Alice had in mind what ANIMates and makes our pets the endearing ANIMals they are. And that was that. I expect the lad, now a teen who’s lived with some deeply loved and loving pups (and studied Latin!) over the intervening years, has likely reconsidered.
I was reminded of that brief exchange when reading my friend James Hargrove’s poem, “Elegy for a Brown Pelican,” in a recent issue of the