SEX, DRUGS & PALM TREES: LOCAL COLLECTS STORIES FROM GOOD OLD DAYS
I’m not exactly a green plantain, but as someone who landed in Key West a little over eight years ago, I also don’t yet have much Conch...
Swings turn to sails, and a little coaching, for former MLB player
Former major league first baseman, Islamorada resident and captain, Doug Mientkiewicz remembers the days riding with his dad to his office next to the Tom Thumb in...
FOX NATION’S BRIAN KILMEADE SPENDS TIME IN KEY WEST — AND WITH KEYS WEEKLY
Most know Brian Kilmeade as the charismatic personality that drives Fox News’ morning show, “Fox and Friends.” And while political undercurrents and public opinion tend to enunciate...
5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT MONARCH BUTTERFLIES (AND HOW TO HELP THEM)
Five Things to Know About Monarch Butterflies
1 Monarch butterflies have been rapidly declining in numbers, nearing endangered species status. In the past 15 years, the migratory population...
A dead whale washed up in the Everglades. Turns out, it’s a new species...
In January 2019, a 38-foot, 30-ton whale washed up on Sandy Key in the Everglades. I happened to be camping at Flamingo, by chance, and ran over...
KEYS COUPLE PUBLISHES A LOVE LETTER TO LIFE & EACH OTHER
“I always wish to be meeting you somewhere,” poet Greg Cantrell writes to his wife, the artist Marlene Koenig. Evidence of that wish and those meetings is...
KEY WEST TO START REDESIGNING ICONIC DUVAL STREET
Consensus. Common ground. Compromise. Community input.
The company leading the Duval Street revitalization project expects to begin gathering public input about priorities and ideas in the next six...
KEYS DATING SUCCESSES AND CAR CRASHES AS TOLD BY LOCALS
Angela is a 50-year-old divorcee in Key West who hasn’t been on a date in two years. And she’s just fine with that, thank you very much.
“I...
KEYS SCHOONER TOOK FREED SLAVES TO WEST AFRICA; BUT HUNDREDS DIED BEFORE THE TRIP
President James Monroe, on March 3, 1819, signed “An Act to Protect the Commerce of the United States, and Crimes of Piracy.” The act gave the U.S....
KEY WEST JAIL DIRECTOR KEENA ALLEN GIVES THE SAME RESPECT SHE GETS
Keena Allen’s office could belong to a beloved school principal or guidance counselor, its shelves packed as they are with mementos, a ceramic cross and decades of...
