KEY WEST BANS SMOKING & VAPING AT PARKS & BEACHES
Key West officials banned smoking and vaping at Key West’s parks and beaches when they met on Feb. 7. But, not entirely.
Cigar smoking is still allowed because...
KEY WEST POLICE UPGRADE BODY-WORN CAMERA SYSTEM
Regarded as the father of modern policing, Peel developed the above in what is still taught today in law enforcement leadership training courses as one of the...
SAVING ‘ISAIAH’: ARTIST & CITY OF KEY WEST PRESERVE MURAL
In order to preserve a crumbling but historic 1880s-era power plant that straddles the Bahama Village and Truman Waterfront neighborhoods, two non-historic portions of the former Keys...
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...
