COVID CASES ON THE RISE IN THE KEYS
New COVID-19 cases increased for a fifth straight week in Florida. In the Keys, hospitalizations are going up while local doctors’ offices see more positive tests.
Monroe County’s...
KEYS OFFICIALS, BUSINESS OWNERS DEALING WITH RISING COVID CASES
Increasing COVID-19 cases in the Keys have some stores and municipalities bringing back mask requirements. Some are issuing messages strongly encouraging their use, while others continue to...
TENANT PROTECTION = LANDLORD FRUSTRATION
On, off, on again. That’s how the federal moratorium on evictions related to COVID-19 is rolling. On July 31, the moratorium ended. Just three days earlier, the...
Keys officials, business owners dealing with rising COVID cases
Increasing COVID-19 cases in the Keys have some stores and municipalities bringing back mask requirements. Some are issuing messages strongly encouraging their use, while others continue to...
COVID CREEPS BACK INTO THE HEADLINES WITH DELTA VARIANT
Health officials growing concerned over COVID-19 case spikes in the U.S. are blaming a delta variant and a population of citizens who haven’t received a vaccine. No...
OBITUARY: IN LOVING MEMORY OF CRYSTAL CATES
Crystal Cates, loving daughter, sister and aunt, passed away Thursday, June 24 at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
She had fought valiantly since November after being diagnosed with COVID.
Crystal was born...
KEY WEST WOMEN LAUNCH VACCINE PROJECT
‘All I wanted for my birthday this year was a vaccine,” said Key West hotelier Kate Miano. ‘I was scared to death.’ Miano was vaccinated in February...
COUNTY LOOKS TO LIGHTEN COVID PROTOCOLS FOR SUMMER
A lot can happen in 411 days.
For example, during the April 21 meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, emergency management director Shannon Weiner said that Monroe...
SCHOOLS SUPER: SOCIAL DISTANCING ‘HAS BECOME A PROBLEM’
At the April 27 Monroe County School District board meeting, Superintendent Theresa Axford announced that more than 100 Key West High School students have been quarantined in...
OUR ECONOMY SURVIVED THE PANDEMIC. NOW WHAT?
It seems so small and so selfish to say in the midst of a much needed economic boom in the Middle Keys, but here it is. Business...
