MEET A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY YOUNG EXPLORER WITH AN INFECTIOUS ENTHUSIASM FOR NATURE
Gabriela Tejeda drove down a cypress-lined side road in Everglades National Park. The newly minted National Geographic Society 2023 Young Explorer was on one of her regular...
CANADA TO THE KEYS: A HIKE ON THE EASTERN CONTINENTAL TRAIL BRINGS A UNIQUE...
I took my backpack off to rest on the steep, rock-strewn incline toward Wildcat D Peak in the White Mountains of New Hampshire to talk with my...
UPPER KEYS NEIGHBOR OF THE WEEK: ROSA LAMELA
No matter how many individuals appear in the pages of each edition of Keys Weekly, there are always so many more of our community members who deserve...
NEW ISLAND MUSIC SCHOOL COMES TO THE UPPER KEYS
Local musician and Monroe County firefighter Luke Ptomey has big plans for Island Music School, which he and his wife, Melissa, are launching this August.
The school will...
KEYS HISTORY: WHAT WENT BEHIND THE NAMING OF SUGARLOAF?
Sugarloaf Key was once famously home to the Perky Bat Tower. In 1929, Richter Clyde Perky thought the wooden tower would become home to a colony of...
GRAMMY WINNER & FASHION DESIGNER ASSIST WITH A FUR IN FASHION PSA
Hi friends! Reef the fox here with your weekly “Reef’s Report.” We had some celebrity visitors stop by a few weeks ago.
I wanted to wait to report...
UPPER KEYS NEIGHBOR OF THE WEEK: RYAN WILL
No matter how many individuals appear in the pages of each edition of Keys Weekly, there are always so many more of our community members who deserve...
HUMOR: TOP 10 SIGNS IT’S TOO HOT IN THE FLORIDA KEYS
If you've lived in the Keys for any considerable amount of time, you pride yourself on certain things. For example, after a while, the no-see-ums miraculously stop...
MONROE COUNTY’S JULY 3 CELEBRATION IN BIG PINE TO FEATURE WORLD RECORD KEY LIME...
Florida Keys visitors and residents can commemorate the island chain’s bicentennial Monday, July 3, during a “Florida Keys 200” event showcasing the creation of the world’s largest...
FATHERS & SONS: ‘MR. FRANK’ TOPPINO TURNS 100 TODAY, JUNE 15
John Toppino calls him “Grandpa.” Richard Toppino calls him, “Dad.” But to most of Key West, he’s “Mr. Frank” — businessman, family man, philanthropist — and he turns...
