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RESEARCHERS ASSESS KEYS’ CORAL HEALTH FOLLOWING MARINE HEAT WAVE

A team of researchers from NOAA’s Mission: Iconic Reefs program and partners from Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium and the Coral Restoration Foundation have...
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LARGEST NAUTICAL SHOPPING EVENT IN THE KEYS RETURNS TO ISLAMORADA

Hundreds of vendors will return this weekend in Islamorada. The Gigantic Nautical Market at Founders Park will welcome thousands of patrons Saturday and Sunday,...
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KEY COLONY BEACH PREPS FOR CITY HALL REOPENING & COMMISSIONER APPOINTMENT

Though the long-term fate of Key Colony Beach’s city hall building remains to be seen, portions of the building are set to reopen in...
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QUEER KEYS NONPROFIT TO RECEIVE STATEWIDE RECOGNITION

Equality Florida, the statewide civil rights organization that fights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, will honor a group of local activists...
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MARATHON LIFTER JUSTICE LEE WINS DUAL STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS AS KEYS STRONGWOMEN BRING HOME SIX...

Sophomore Justice Lee made Monroe County history on Feb. 17 when she won both the traditional and Olympic events at the FHSAA 1A State...
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A NEW, LARGER PUBLIX OPENS IN KEY LARGO

Shoppers heading to Publix at Key Largo’s Tradewinds Plaza on Feb. 15 were delighted to find a newer — and larger — grocery store...
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CHARLES SCHULZ’S ‘PEANUTS’ SUCCESSOR TOM EVERHART VISITS OCEAN BLUE GALLERIES

With football foibles, five-cent psychiatry and a famously flippant beagle, Charles Schulz gave the world a 50-year friendship with the Peanuts gang, drawing Snoopy,...
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‘WE’VE COME A LONG WAY’: HISTORIC MARATHON CHURCH CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH

In the early 1950s, Marathon resident Grace Jones took a bus down to Key West to talk to Horace O’Bryant. He was the superintendent...
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OBITUARY: CAPT. JOE WEATHERBY

Longtime resident and much-loved Key West character, Capt. Joe Weatherby, 62, passed away in a care facility in Miami on Tuesday, Feb. 13, after...
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TDC BOARD STICKS UP FOR AGENCY’S DIRECTOR AFTER ANOTHER SCATHING AUDIT

After the Monroe County Clerk’s Office rained criticism down on the financial practices of the Florida Keys’ tourism marketing agency – the Tourist Development...