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...
KEY WEST BACK IN THE DAY: THE SEA MONSTER IN THE LIBRARY
In the early 1980s, sparked by a passionate love for my island home, I became obsessed with Key West history. But I never dreamed...
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...
STATE ERASES KEY WEST’S RAINBOWS: WHAT WILL REPLACE THE COLORFUL CROSSWALKS?
They’re gone.
After months of Key West residents’ protests against state overreach and impassioned pleas for protection of the city’s rainbow crosswalks, state transportation workers...
LOCAL TEEN REACHES QUARTERFINALS IN ATHLETE OF YEAR CONTEST; VOTE ONLINE FOR NICHOLAS TALPASZ
Key West High School freshman Nicholas Talpasz is competing in the Youth Athlete of the Year Competition and has made the quarterfinals. Online voting...
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...
COUNTY COMMISSION REJECTS GIVING FDOT AUTHORITY TO POTENTIALLY FOUR-LANE SEGMENTS OF U.S. 1
Monroe County commissioners unanimously rejected a draft proposal to give the Florida Department of Transportation authority to potentially enlarge segments of U.S. 1 to...
KEY WEST FIREFIGHTERS TRAIN FOR SCARY SCENARIOS
Members of the Key West Fire Department recently took part in specialized training known as Man vs. Machine.
The program introduces firefighters to unusual incidents...
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...
EXPLORE THE GLAMOUR OF FLAGLER’S GILDED AGE HOTELS AT HAPPY HOUR LECTURE
The Key West Art & Historical Society will present the latest installment of its lecture series, Happy Hour with the Historian, featuring a presentation...
