BY LOCALS, FOR LOCALS – Marathon Boat Yard continues an important role
The coconut telegraph rumor mill was working overtime when Bruce and Sherry Popham sold Marathon Boat Yard to “the pie lady” in 2018. Paula Marshall, who owns...
Get to know Rams Head
Rams Head Group has landed the gig of managing the Truman Waterfront Amphitheater. Anyone in the April 2 city commission meeting knows it was hard-won: Nadine Grossman...
Big Kahuna Watersports offers customizable jet ski tours in Marathon
Not every workday begins by throwing on board shorts and a life jacket, pushing a Jet Ski into the water, and taking off for a scenic ride...
Blue Star adds diving, fishing operators
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary has added A Fishing Guide of Islamorada, Flying Fish Charters of Key West, and Sail Fish Scuba of Key Largo, Florida, as...
General Horseplay goes the extra 127 miles
Chris Shultz and his cohort of professional merry-makers have been opening, and occasionally closing, bars and restaurants in Key West for a decade now. His team has...
Island Life, Carlos Garcia, Ocean Sothebys
“It’s really difficult to find good information about living in the Florida Keys,” said Carlos Garcia. “I couldn’t find out anything before I moved here, so I...
A first look at the new boutique resort on Grassy Key
More than 100 locals showed up to celebrate the opening of the Grassy Flats Resort and Beach Club in the Middle Keys, pulling folks from Marathon and...
MORE FREEBEE
Visitors and locals needing a ride to restaurants, hotels or businesses on Upper Matecumbe Key will still have Freebee to choose. But the service may very well...
Commercial fishermen can apply for Irma assistance
Twenty-one months after Hurricane Irma, the funds are in place to begin restoring the losses of commercial fishermen in the Keys. The Florida Wildlife Commission has $44.6...
Mallory Square Meltdown: a bureaucracy vs. a restaurant without a kitchen
It’s gotten too hot in the kitchen. Or lack of a kitchen, rather.
The June 18 commission meeting took on the tone of Mom — aka Mayor Teri...
