Florida Keys

All three Keys high schools were ranked in the recent Washington Post’s challenge report. Created by journalist Jay Matthews, the paper ranks the schools...

The seventh triathlon and biathlon — hosted by MaraTri — has been scheduled for Saturday, May 25. The family friendly event is a fundraiser...

Although the country I currently live in expects me to boycott Cuba, the truth is I don’t have a problem willingly giving them my...

Bad Boy Burrito quickly achieved favored status among visitors off the beaten path and locals

Larry “Lighthouse Larry” Herlth is seriously into lighthouses. But not in the tiny-wooden-replica-that-sits-on-the-shelf kind of way. He’s into macho-thousand-pound-weld-it-out-of-steel kind of way. The Islamorada...

Rachel Price’s first foray into volunteerism came with teaching ballroom dancing to school age children. “I went into it thinking ‘I can’t do this,’ and...

As a little kid I would wake up on Sunday mornings to the aromatic perfume of pork fat evaporating off the stove.  Brunch was...

Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay raised more than $1,000 with a 30-second mechanical bullride this past weekend during Pig Days at the Stuffed Pig...

I do have a half-finished, fictionalized work that shrinks with each honest edit. It is so difficult for me to write that I will call my next book a work of “friction.” The first story involves a protagonist named Blu Yunger, a dead buzzard and a Pogo stick modified for military use. The title is Screwed, Blu’ed and Tattooed. Then there’s the one about the worm farm . . .

The vast majority of Marathon residents are very passionate about the Original Marathon Seafood Festival because they have a personal stake in it. In...