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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

Let’s hear it for ‘The Mommies’ – Special pack of friends makes motherhood better

This Mother’s Day, I need to thank a special bunch of women. I call them The Mommies, although that’s nowhere cool enough a name for our little troop of ladies. We met 13 years ago when our kids were not even old enough to roll over, when some of us still carried the poor babies

Monday, May 6th, 2013

Undersheriff quietly assumes new role in office 


Monroe County Undersheriff Bill Cameron slipped quietly into the No. 2 spot with little fanfare at the end of January. Most recently the elected Sheriff in Charlotte County, he was set to retire when he got a...

Monday, May 6th, 2013

Sombrero Country Club hires new golf pro for the links

Sombrero County Club has hired a new golf pro, and she’s an expert. Diane McHeffey’s credentials include professional play on the Women’s Future Golf Tour and Women’s Professional Golf Tour; owning her own 26-acre golf and game...

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

Cheerleaders celebrate end of season – Women of the Moose host the banquet

Lisa Kendrick began a new competitive cheerleading team in Marathon this year. The team’s name? “Keys Madness”! The team consists of nine girls who attend different Keys schools: Stacie Colon, Zamaira Ricart, Kacie Butler, Delaney Collins, Liz...

Saturday, April 27th, 2013

Marathon High earns high ranking. Middle Keys school recognized for hard course work, hard tests.

All three Keys high schools were ranked in the recent Washington Post’s challenge report. Created by journalist Jay Matthews, the paper ranks the schools according to the difficulty of the classes offered divided by the number of...

Saturday, April 27th, 2013

Key West runner returns safely from Boston

Key West runner Roy Coley had already finished the Boston Marathon and was two blocks away when two blasts rocked the finish line. “The surreal part for me was that my daughter, Amy, had been standing in...

Monday, April 22nd, 2013

Hogfish is the perfect target for beginning spearfishermen

(Editor’s Note: James Simsic, a homegrown Marathon conch, is The Weekly’s newest fishing columnist. Below, he introduces readers to the sport of spearfishing and gives them a few starting points — a fish to target, qualities to...

Friday, April 19th, 2013

Seventh Marathon triathlon set for May

The seventh triathlon and biathlon — hosted by MaraTri — has been scheduled for Saturday, May 25. The family friendly event is a fundraiser for Marathon High School athletic teams. “MaraTri is dedicated to bringing back the...

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