NEW DATA SHOWS CORAL REEF WEAKENS HURRICANE WAVES
As the new hurricane season rolls in on Thursday, June 1, residents of the Florida Keys will likely remember Hurricane Ian, a Category 4 storm that tracked...
20 BUBBAS LEGACIES HAVE WON THEIR CATEGORY EVERY YEAR
Photos by RALPH De PALMA/Keys Weekly
As we approach a full decade of The Bubbas: Key West People’s Choice Awards, the Keys Weekly is proud to honor our...
BYE, BYE, BLEACHERS: WORK STARTS AT NEW HIGH SCHOOL STADIUM
While the Monroe County School Board finalizes the details, Ajax Building Co. has begun work to replace Key West High School’s Tommy Roberts Memorial Stadium for the...
RAINBOWS COLOR KEY WEST FOR PRIDE JUNE 7-11
In 2003, a rainbow covered Key West’s Duval Street.
Held aloft by 2,000 volunteers, the 1.25-mile-long Sea-to-Sea Diversity Flag covered the length and width of Duval Street, from...
THERE’S AN URGENT NEED FOR FOSTER PARENTS IN THE UPPER KEYS
High living costs and a booming real estate market have uprooted a number of families from their Florida Keys homes, sending them packing to other counties and...
HISTORICAL NUGGETS: PRESENTATION SPONSORS SOUGHT FOR TALKS
My birthday was on June 4, and man, the years are flying by. For the record, every year gets better and better. It is hard to believe...
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...
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...
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...
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...
