SANDWICH TERNS DIVE TO BEAT THE BAND
I was sitting on the cement wall down at Rest Beach, watching the Sandwich terns, when the band started up. It looked to be a New Orleans-style...
AN INSIDE LOOK AT KEY WEST’S CITY GOVERNMENT – 2022 Key West Annual Report...
Have you ever wondered: How many police officers work in Key West; what does the Planning Department do or what’s the city’s total annual budget?
Those questions and...
GOOD COP: SHERIFF PROMOTES DONNY BARRIOS TO LIEUTENANT
By Tom Walker
“Donny Barrios can walk into a room of 50 strangers and walk out having made 50 friends,” Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay said on Jan....
MORNING JOINT & MARY JANE’S CLOSET ARE THE NEW MUST-STOP SPOTS IN LOWER KEYS
Have you been to MM 22 recently? For something other than lunch, drinks or dinner at Square Grouper and My New Joint?
There are now two new reasons...
KEY WEST SIDEWALK CAMS ARE SLATED FOR UPGRADES
One of the city’s sidewalk cameras, mounted above an intersection, watched — and recorded — as Memphis police officers brutally beat Tyre Nichols, who died from his...
RESCUED FREEDIVER TELLS KEYS WEEKLY HARROWING STORY
“One last dive.”
That was Dylan Gartenmayer’s plan on Jan. 19, when he dove 35 feet to the ocean floor with a deep breath and a loaded speargun.
He...
KEY WEST OFFICIALS ADD 2 MORE FINALISTS TO CITY MANAGER SHORTLIST
Now there are five — finalists, that is, for the Key West city manager job.
The city commission on Jan. 18 added two names to the list of...
KEYS’ STATE LEGISLATORS SEEK $20M ANNUALLY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS
Legislators in the Florida House and Senate are beginning to file funding requests and proposed policy changes as a 60-day session in Tallahassee starts March 7. Committees...
TENNESSEE TITANS’ NEW GM RAN CARTHON TELLS KEYS WEEKLY, ‘KEY WEST IS HOME’
Why are so many Key West sports fans suddenly rooting for the Tennessee Titans?
Because the Titans’ new general manager, Ran Carthon, is — and always will be...
MEET SUSIE PUSKEDRA: ESTATE-SALE MAVEN SEES IT ALL
Over the past 11 years, Susie Puskedra has given treasure-hunting a whole new meaning for Lower Keys islanders. When a house is sold and the owners need...
