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MONROE COUNTY’S JULY 3 CELEBRATION IN BIG PINE TO FEATURE WORLD RECORD KEY LIME...

Florida Keys visitors and residents can commemorate the island chain’s bicentennial Monday, July 3, during a “Florida Keys 200” event showcasing the creation of the world’s largest...
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KEYS HISTORY: WHAT WENT BEHIND THE NAMING OF SUGARLOAF?

Sugarloaf Key was once famously home to the Perky Bat Tower. In 1929, Richter Clyde Perky thought the wooden tower would become home to a colony of...
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UPPER KEYS NEIGHBOR OF THE WEEK: RYAN WILL

No matter how many individuals appear in the pages of each edition of Keys Weekly, there are always so many more of our community members who deserve...
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GRAMMY WINNER & FASHION DESIGNER ASSIST WITH A FUR IN FASHION PSA

Hi friends! Reef the fox here with your weekly “Reef’s Report.” We had some celebrity visitors stop by a few weeks ago.  I wanted to wait to report...
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MEET A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY YOUNG EXPLORER WITH AN INFECTIOUS ENTHUSIASM FOR NATURE

Gabriela Tejeda drove down a cypress-lined side road in Everglades National Park. The newly minted National Geographic Society 2023 Young Explorer was on one of her regular...
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UPPER KEYS NEIGHBOR OF THE WEEK: ROSA LAMELA

No matter how many individuals appear in the pages of each edition of Keys Weekly, there are always so many more of our community members who deserve...

MEET THE PARTICIPANTS IN THIS YEAR’S BIG KAHUNA FUNDRAISER

July 1 marked the start of Good Health Clinic’s 11th annual Big Kahuna Contest — a three-month competitive event to raise awareness and operating funds for the ...
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BLACK EDUCATORS INITIATIVE SEEKS MORE DIVERSITY AMONG KEYS TEACHERS

Public schools in Monroe County have about 1,500 black students, representing 16% of the overall enrollment, but as of two years ago, there were only eight black...
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100 YEARS OF ARTS PATRON ANNE MCKEE

At 100 years young, Anne McKee still speaks in a clipped accent that betrays her roots in Newfoundland, where she was born in 1923, before the region...
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SPORTS & MORE: NFL QUESTIONS & NOT MANY ANSWERS FROM THE GOLF WORLD

I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a pre-National Football League season with so much controversy and so many questions. We can start with the New York Jets. Will...