ROGO BILLS HIT ROADBLOCKS IN TALLAHASSEE
By Alex Rickert and Jim McCarthy
Four bills that could have provided hundreds or thousands of new building rights to the Florida Keys at the...
POWER & WATER: NEW EXHIBIT EXPLORES HISTORY OF LOCAL UTILITIES
The Florida Keys History & Discovery Center recently opened a new interactive exhibit, “Currents & Flows: Power and Water in the Florida Keys.”
This immersive...
AFTER 40 YEARS WITH MCSO, LT. COL. DON HILLER CALLS IT A CAREER
For most, the “good old days” involve some variation of late nights in a bar with good friends, beers in hand. For Monroe County...
CORAL SHORES STUDENTS WITNESS HARSH REALITIES DURING MOCK DUI CRASH
“Scary,” “moving” and “stressful” were the words Coral Shores High School sophomore Natalie Goodwin used as she left the school’s performing arts center. Goodwin...
SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW: PONY CHARVET AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART
Pony Charvet’s grandfather was an animal trainer in a circus. His hippie parents named him “Pony” because they wanted him to run free, and...
KEYS HISTORY: UPPER MATECUMBE KEY WAS ONCE KNOWN AS A RAILROAD TOWN
When Islamorada developed, it was a railroad town. People like to say otherwise.
They tell stories about Spanish conquistadors sailing past and declaring Islamorada the...
KEY LARGO’S MARINELAB JOINS BLUE STAR OPERATORS
MarineLab Environmental Education Center recently joined the network of Blue Star operators organized by NOAA’s Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Blue Star operators are committed...
COULD THE FLORIDA KEYS BE IN FOR MORE FLOATING SARGASSUM?
There are hundreds of species of seaweeds in the genus Sargassum, which is a brown macroalgae found all over the globe. In the Florida...
NEW AQUEDUCT FACILITY CAN TURN SEAWATER TO DRINKING WATER
The Lower Keys is a little less reliant these days on the past-its-prime pipeline that brings drinking water from the mainland to the island...
NEAR-FATAL SHOOTING STARTS WITH FIGHT OVER MAC & CHEESE
Two Key West men were shot by another Key West man in the pre-dawn hours of May 4 when a fight that started over...
