Key Largo resort launches sustainable food tours
Editor’s Note: This is part one in a series on the “Dock to Dish” program.
By VICTORIA CASSAR
For over a decade, the “farm to table” movement has...
Chicken joint replaces Burger King on the boulevard
There’s nothing like a brand new fast-food option to get Key Westers’ attention and dominate discussions around town and online. Only on this island would the 2015...
New managers make Key West’s assisted-living more affordable
Finding affordable housing in Key West doesn’t usually get easier with age, but a new management company is lowering rents and increasing the occupancy at Poinciana Gardens...
Servers could be hurt by minimum wage proposal
There’s a little-known and less-understood proposal to increase Florida’s minimum wage from the current $8.46 to $15 by 2026. The initiative, known as the $15 Minimum Wage...
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...
Communication Workers of America Challenge AT&T
20,000 AT&T workers in the Southeast who are members of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) union are striking because of what they say are unfair labor...
Heads in Beds – DAC1 approves TDC funding
The Tourist Development Council’s district advisory council for District 1 (DAC1) has made its decision on funding approval for events in Key West. Ultimately, the council approved...
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...
Swimming Against the Current
It’s nice. It’s warm. We’re in a good mood. Hearing those words from the mouth of a New Yorker and recent transplant to South Florida, it’s a...
CUSTOM BOAT BUILDER
Keys native Pete Garcia had his own outlook on what he wanted to do and how he wanted to do it. For the 34-year-old Key Largo resident,...
