KEY WEST AUTHOR HAYS BLINCKMANN DELIVERS COMING-OF-AGE STORY WITH ‘TINY LITTLE EARTHQUAKES’
Growing up in the 1980s on a remote horse farm in North Carolina was not easy for 9-year-old Elliot Hase. After her parents’ divorce,...
KEY LARGO HONORS ITS FIRST BLACK FIRE CHIEF
Harry Davis Jr., Key Largo’s first Black fire chief, was a true Conch who was born in 1944 on his father’s pistol range, in...
LOCAL ROBOTICS TEAMS FOR YOUNGSTERS INSPIRE MARATHON INNOVATORS
In a Keys community better known for fishing than circuit boards, two programs are shaping the next generation of innovators.
Ruckus Robotics, operating under the...
JIMMY BUFFETT’S MUSICAL LEGACY TO CONTINUE AT SHRIMP BOAT SOUND
Jimmy Buffett’s former recording studio at the Historic Seaport (officially named the Key West Bight) will continue as a recording studio, and will be...
INSPIRED BY MARATHON’S WILD BIRD CENTER, ANNIKA BALTZERSEN BRINGS AVIAN ADVOCACY TO CAPITOL
A 14-year-old whose visits to Marathon inspired a love for precious bird species in the Sunshine State is now making her voice heard in...
LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE FOR PRESTON BREWER
The victim’s side of the courtroom gallery was a sea of red on Thursday afternoon, as the parents, relatives, friends and supporters of the...
MARATHON COUNCIL FIRES CITY MANAGER GEORGE GARRETT
In a Tuesday night bombshell, the Marathon City Council voted to terminate City Manager George Garrett without cause via a 3-2 vote in its...
KEY WEST IMMIGRANTS PLAN 2-DAY STRIKE FRIDAY & SATURDAY
In eight months, Key West has lost nearly 500 immigrants to federal authorities. Most of the people who have been removed, detained in a...
FLORIDA HOUSE PASSES PROPERTY TAX PHASEHOUT PROPOSAL
On Feb. 19, 80 Florida House members said “yes” to an initiative that would ask voters whether they support abolishing all property taxes, besides...
KEY WEST BOARD MAKES CASE FOR PAINTED FENCE PICKETS
The city’s historic preservation commission may have made history at its Feb. 24 meeting.
The commission that a decade ago was notorious for telling property...
