About a dozen students from Marathon High School start their mornings at the Marathon Fire Station. The new program seeks to recruit more locals (long-term) employees for the department. SARA MATTHIS/Keys Weekly

Fire school seeks to keep locals

Monday through Friday, about a dozen Marathon High School students are at their desks at Fire Station No. 14 by 7:30 a.m. On some...
SHIPWRECKS AND SAILORS – Adventurous tale captivates crowd - A couple of people that are talking to each other - Communication

Adventurous tale captivates crowd

In 1989, Jack S. Grove discovered the shipwreck of the vessel Acadia at Ducie Atoll, an uninhabited islet and one of four islands in...
Coral Shores culinary teacher secures $50,000 grant for kitchen remodel

Coral Shores culinary teacher secures $50,000 grant for kitchen remodel

At Coral Shores, students in the culinary classroom are hard at work learning the skills and techniques of food preparation and cooking. Under the...
Homecoming Coral Shores

Floats parade down Old Highway

Floats from the Coral Shores’ high school classes, as well as neighboring elementary and middle schools, paraded down Old Highway during the homecoming festivities...
BOCC votes to circumvent CareerSource and bring federal training funds directly to Keys

No more ‘lost opportunities’

At the September BOCC meeting, Monroe County Commissioners voted to approve three separate agenda items to improve workforce training in Monroe County. Kicked off...
Work underway at college’s new Upper Keys Center - A road with palm trees and a building

Work underway at college’s new Upper Keys Center

The College of the Florida Keys President Jonathan Gueverra remembers speaking to Rotary clubs and chambers of commerce in the Upper Keys roughly seven...
Brother, sister excited for first year at Key Largo - A man and a woman posing for a picture - Florida Keys

Brother, sister excited for first year at Key Largo

It’s that time of year when students hit the alarm clock, mosey on down to the kitchen for breakfast and hop out the door...
Study: dolphins live just as long, or longer, in captivity - Tucuxi

Study: dolphins live just as long, or longer, in captivity

By Sarah Mandile Two bottlenose dolphins glide underwater as they approach two buttons located on the edge of their enclosure. After simultaneously pushing them, a...
Predicting Academic Success (or, What did I do with that crystal ball?) - A stack of flyers on a table - South Fork Union School District

Predicting Academic Success (or, What did I do with that crystal ball?)

I’m sure it irritates the current generation of school-age kids just as much as it used to bother me. No sooner are we past...
THE NEW LIBRARIAN Lorena Diaz takes the reins of Marathon’s public library - A woman sitting at a table in front of a book shelf - Lorena Diaz

THE NEW LIBRARIAN Lorena Diaz takes the reins of Marathon’s public library

Talk about the perfect person at the perfect time: Marathon’s new librarian, Lorena Diaz, has stepped up to fill the role at the same...