MHS students team up to raise awareness with visual storytelling
In 2018, award-winning Florida photographer Michael Patrick O’Neill visited Marathon Middle High School. While meeting with the students, he used awe-insipiring photographs to tell...
Corey Malcom discusses underwater archeology of the slave trade
Corey Malcom, director of archeology at the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, spoke to a packed house at the History of Diving...
Unknown works found in Key West storage bin
Key West music man Bobby Nesbitt was reasonably confident he was aware of all Johnny Mercer’s musical compositions.
Nesbitt, after all, had been assembling and...
Bum Farto podcast explores Key West’s drug-dealing, fugitive fire chief
The story of Key West’s missing fire chief, Joseph “Bum” Farto, may be the most thrilling true crime story Key West has ever seen....
40 bands take stage this weekend to have their talent recorded
Mark your calendars for this weekend: it’s the third Conch Records Music Video Fest on Friday, Saturday and Sunday — Jan. 3-5 — at...
Eighth annual Baygrass Bluegrass set
Islamorada Community Entertainment’s eighth annual Craft Beer and Baygrass Bluegrass Festival is bringing multiple award-winning artists from across the United States to Founders Park,...
Turtle returns to waters off Alligator Reef
A debilitated green sea turtle rescued off Alligator Reef in May returned home on Dec. 29. With a “goodbye” to Allie, onlookers onboard the...
TOP 10 PHOTOS OF THE MIDDLE KEYS
The Marathon Weekly is lucky enough to work with some ridiculously talented professional photographers such as Barry Gaukel and Ian Wilson. And then, we...
Keys schools get new fields and facilities
The halls of learning in the Florida Keys got some much-needed improvements in 2019, which saw the opening of two brand new campuses at...
Key West ‘drops’ in on 2020
Key West doesn’t drop the ball when it comes to New Year’s Eve, but we drop plenty of other things, from pirate wenches, planes...

























