CITY OFFICIALS TO FDOT: LEAVE THE TREES; SKIP THE RAILINGS ON N. ROOSEVELT PROMENADE
“Remove the guardrails and leave the trees.”
Commissioner Billy Wardlow summed up the Key West city commission’s sentiments during the March 14 meeting.
State transportation officials want to install...
SCHOOL BOARD CALLS TIMEOUT ON $4 MILLION INCREASE IN KEY WEST STADIUM COSTS
School board members had sticker shock when they saw the latest price tag for Key West High School’s new football stadium and baseball complex.
Expecting to approve a...
ANNUAL SWIM IN ISLAMORADA SUPPORTS EARLY CANCER RESEARCH
For Islamorada resident Glenn Latham, a love for swimming and a mission to join in the battle against cancer were married two years ago with the inaugural...
7-MILE OFFSHORE GRAND PRIX TO SPEED INTO MARATHON APRIL 26-28
Powerful offshore boats racing at high speeds near the world-famous Seven Mile Bridge will show their muscle Friday through Sunday, April 26-28, when the 7-Mile Offshore Grand...
LEGENDARY OPEN-WATER SWIMMER & ISLAMORADA COACH RECEIVE THE PEACE AWARD
Head of the local Fighting Manatees swim club, Rob Dixon, remembers the moment coach Jennifer Dutton entered the swimmers’ lives several years ago. The search for a...
MOTOWN HEATS UP IN KEY WEST WITH THE TEMPTATIONS & THE FOUR TOPS
Don’t say you don’t know any songs by the Temptations or the Four Tops.
Everyone knows the songs that spanned two centuries.
The two iconic Motown groups took the...
DO YOU HAVE A DRIVER’S LICENSE? ARE YOU SURE?
This might shock those who know me, but on the first day of March … I was officially the bad boy of Marathon.
The last thing I expected...
KEYS TOURISM BOARD FIRES TOP MARKETING DIRECTOR IN UNANIMOUS DECISION
The Monroe County Tourism Development Council Board fired its top employee, marketing director Stacey Mitchell, in a unanimous vote Tuesday, five months after a county audit questioned...
FLORIDA GOVERNOR SIGNS SOCIAL MEDIA BAN FOR MINORS BILL; A LEGAL BATTLE COULD FOLLOW
A bill prohibiting children from accessing certain social media platforms was signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during a March 25 press conference in Jacksonville.
The...
SNAPCHAT DEATH THREAT PROMPTS KWHS LOCKDOWN; UPPER KEYS STUDENT FACES CHARGES
An 18-year-old Upper Keys student is in jail on a half-million-dollar bond after deputies said he threatened to kill a Key West teen in a Snapchat post...
