United Way offers virtual tax assistance

Due to the COVID-19 social distancing requirements and the closure of VITA tax preparation locations, United Way of Collier and the Keys is offering...

How do we reopen the Keys?

The Weekly Newspapers wanted to know how people in our island communities envision the process of reopening of the Florida Keys to both locals...

Ocean Reef Community Foundation grants $50k to mobile smile clinic efforts

When we last checked in with Clarice Yentsch and Wally Smith, the masterminds behind the “Mobile Smile Maker” initiative for the Waypoint Foundation of...

Key West hotels give care packages to employees

Nearly 300 furloughed employees of Key West’s Waldorf Astoria Casa Marina and The Reach showed up at the Casa Marina on Friday, April 24...

Re-Open Florida Task Force seeking public comment

Want to chime in on the state’s reopening process? Today's the final day to submit input. Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Re-Open Florida Task Force created an...

Health Department doing once-a-day updates

Updates to the Florida Health Department’s COVID-19 data and surveillance dashboard and full state report will now be issued once a day, state officials...

Everglades National Park reopening in phases May 4

Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Everglades National Park is...

State strike team tests Crystal Health Center

A state strike team entered the Crystal Health & Rehab Center on Plantation Key on Saturday to conduct testing after a speech therapist tested...

Dealing with too much time and not enough to do?

“Boredom: The desire for desires.” – Leo Tolstoy Six weeks into our new socially distant reality, without the comfortable trappings of work and income, many...

Some test results at nursing home come back, some positive

Several test results have come back from a commercial lab after some 150 residents and employees at Crystal Health & Rehab Center were tested...