KEYS WEEKLY SALUTES FRONTLINE FEMALES: FIREFIGHTER ISABELLA SANCHEZ
Marathon Fire Rescue
This pandemic hasn’t been a one-note slog over the past year. Isabella Sanchez, 26, reminds us what a long way we’ve come from those initial...
KEYS WEEKLY SALUTES OUR FRONTLINE FEMALES: KWPD OFFICER JOELLE DEESE
The Key West Police Department’s youngest officer was just weeks out of the academy, still riding with a training officer, when dispatchers reported a shooting in New...
Honoring Frontline Females: Pam Mcgarvey
A pair of novelty Wonder Woman glasses perches neatly atop a filing cabinet in nurse Pam McGarvey’s office at Marathon Middle High School. The humorous prop is...
Honoring Frontline Females: Monica Horsley
Dividing numbers and spelling words aren’t the only lessons Plantation Key School teacher Monica Horsley teaches her students.
“I’m a person who believes learning and education continue throughout...
Honoring Frontline Females: GINNY CONE
Arriving in the Keys as the coronavirus pandemic first hit, Ginny Cone, 33, went right to work caring for patients as a nurse at Mariners Hospital.
“I kept...
Honoring Frontline Females: YALIANYS ‘YALI’ ROQUE
Yalianys Roque, “Yali” for short, was 13 when her family moved from Cuba to Marathon. She was 15 when she started working at Publix after school, on...
KEYS WOMEN ARE MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS — AND KILLIN’ IT
We’ve all been blaming COVID for everything from weight gain to mask-related breakouts. But these Keys women had the courage to either open or adapt their own...
BOOK REVIEW: WORDS BY KEYS WOMEN
This inspirational chain of islands has attracted an impressive number of authors throughout history. Here are five fiction favorites from women of the Florida Keys.
Where I Can...
IT FIGURES: KEYS WOMEN BY THE NUMBERS
No. 1 Monroe County has women in two of the most important elected roles. Key West re-elected Teri Johnston, its second female mayor and first openly gay...
GUY TALK: WHAT SHE SAID VS. WHAT HE HEARD
By Britt Myers, Jason Koler & Joe Mitchell
They say communication is the key to any successful relationship. But men and women speak two different languages (something about...
