NAVY OBJECTION DELAYS WISTERIA ISLAND MOORING FIELD
The county’s new 100-boat mooring field in the waters around Wisteria Island off Key West has been in bureaucratic purgatory for more than a...
HISTORIC USCGC INGHAM — A SHIP WORTH SAVING
Secured along the seawall at Truman Waterfront, the ship commands attention, the searing white of its hull stretches out like a 100-meter dash (327...
KEY WEST ATTORNEY FILLS COUNTY COURT SEAT SPACE IN THE MIDDLE FLORIDA KEYS
On Sept. 10, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the appointment of attorney Derek Lewis, of Key West, to serve as Monroe County’s newest judge.
Lewis has...
KEY WEST REMEMBERS THE DAY OUR WORLD CHANGED ON SEPT. 11, 2001
Anyone old enough to remember the first iPods and the last “Friends” episode damn sure remembers the Tuesday that changed the world in 2001...
BALFOUR BEATTY ACCUSED OF ‘CONCEALING HORRIFIC CONDITIONS’ FROM MILITARY RESIDENTS
An additional 80 people have joined a lawsuit that accused military housing giant Balfour Beatty Communities of “concealing horrific (housing) conditions from unsuspecting service...
FORMER KEY WEST OFFICIAL RAJ RAMSINGH FACES SEVEN MORE OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT CHARGES
A Monroe County Grand Jury on Sept. 15 returned an additional seven-count indictment charging former Key West chief building official Raj Ramsingh with multiple...
AND THE POINT IS? SUBSTITUTE SOUTHERNMOST BUOY SHIFTS TO NEW SPOT, TEMPORARILY
Key West’s most photographed landmark is boarded up behind construction fencing, but a substitute Southernmost Point buoy has been erected at a temporary new...
TIME’S UP FOR TRANSIENT RENTALS IN TRUMAN ANNEX; 20-YEAR AGREEMENT ENDS DEC. 22
Twenty years felt like some far-off date in the future back in 2005. It was the year of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and...
PRESTON BREWER MURDER TRIAL SET FOR OCT. 6; JUDGE TO RULE ON USE OF...
Despite a judge granting him a $3 million bond, accused murderer Preston Brewer has remained in jail since the February 2023 shooting death of...
CAREER KEY WEST CRIMINAL CONVICTED OF GRAND THEFT SENTENCED TO PRISON
A Monroe County jury found 64-year-old Ned Jeffery Layton guilty of grand theft on July 15, following a two-day trial before Circuit Judge Mark...
