Prescribed Burns planned on Big Pine Key Next Week (October 28 – November 1)
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to conduct prescribed burns on one or more locations within the National Key Deer Refuge on Big Pine Key next...
FORMER SHERIFF RICK ROTH LEAVES LASTING LEGACY
He was kind. He was fair. Over and over, the people who knew former Monroe County Sheriff Rick Roth repeated those two facts about the top man...
Oxitec reveals new technology up for EPA consideration
In 2018, Oxitec’s proposal to test the release of biologically modified mosquitoes to combat biting invasive populations was bandied back and forth between the Environmental Protection Agency...
Keys residents gathering supplies, funds for Bahamas
“As soon as the seas calm down.” Keys locals who are collecting emergency supplies for the citizens of the Bahamas plan to make the crossing just as...
Actions by local coastie during shooting goes recognized
Just this month, Coast Guard Bosun Tracy Mannes, 31, was awarded the service’s Coast Guard Medal for her actions in 2017, during the shooting of concert goers...
Female Entrepreneurs, Part I
The utility of Angela Carnoske’s cheekily-named KINK(Y) Wine Rubber is evidenced in the first two minutes that we meet. We are at Wine-O on Duval Street, the...
Got Insurance? Some locals talk about going naked (self-insuring)
The popular complaint after Hurricane Irma went something like this: “Those so-and-so insurance companies have been collecting my premiums for years and ONLY gave me (insert number...
Familiar Faces of Fathers from Key West, Marathon, and the Upper Keys
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.” — Jim Valvano
You Screen, I Screen: Sunscreen “Ban” Makes Waves
On Jan. 15, demonstrators filled the sidewalks outside of Key West City Hall, brandishing signs with message like “Have Morals, Save the Corals.” Reef Relief, a nonprofit...
Marathon woman trades her kidney to help local boy
Two things happened simultaneously. First, Colleen Norman, 53, got the “five years, all clear” notice after her tangle with breast cancer. Then she saw an episode of...
