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Shayne Messina is a 20-year Marathon  resident, local business owner of Sunmasters Elite Travel Inc., Upper Keys BPW member and a six-year breast cancer survivor and activist....

Bald heads won’t sweat under a knit cotton hat. Scrambled eggs and bacon are a perfectly acceptable dinner. Underwire bras are a thing of the past.  “It’s so...

Marathoner Armand Messina has been married to his wife, Shayne Messina, for 17 years. When the couple got the phone call in 2016 that she had been...

It’s that time of year again. Halloween brings out the best — and worst — in all of us. Many costume ideas and characters are trending in...

Although Nancy and Gary’s last name — Curry — is familiar to Key West residents, Gary clarified, “My family is from St. Petersburg.” They are the Key West...

What happened to the parrots that used to fly around Old Town and eat mangoes? — Banyan Tree Amy I’m not sure when you moved here, but when...

It is difficult to tell a Key West or a Key Largo story without telling a Florida Keys story. What time has done is produce a system of...

A community took to the water to remember  the late Mike Forster on Oct. 23. Boats circled around the "Tiger" boat, which had Forster's sister, Jo-Ann, family...

Hi friends! Reef the fox here with another weekly edition of “Reef’s Report.” Halloween is coming up and the human mother bought us costumes. Yes, ridiculous, I...

Halloween in paradise means you can expect a lot of ocean-themed festivities mixed in with the usual ghosts and ghouls! In the Upper Keys, there are three...