SCREAMING REELS: 560 ANGLERS SQUARE OFF IN MARATHON OFFSHORE BULL & COW TOURNAMENT
Five hundred sixty anglers aboard 80 registered vessels headed offshore on the weekend of May 6 and 7 in search of mahi, tuna, wahoo and tripletail for...
SEBASTIANSTRONG PADDLERS ‘KAYAKING THE KEYS FOR HOPE’ TO COMBAT CHILDHOOD CANCER
“You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.” - Stuart Scott
On May 16-20, a group of 20...
A TOAST TO MIDDLE KEYS MOMS: WE WOULDN’T BE HERE WITHOUT YOU
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, we here at the Keys Weekly salute the incredible women in our community who provide a backbone for their families...
NEIGHBOR OF THE WEEK: KENDAHL BURNETT
No matter how many individuals appear in the pages of each edition of Keys Weekly, there are always so many more of our community members who deserve...
MARATHON COUNCIL PONDERS INSURANCE CHALLENGES, BUILDING RIGHTS TRANSFERS
A presentation on insurance inequalities and discussion of minutia surrounding transferable building rights (TBRs) occupied the most time in an otherwise light agenda for the Marathon City...
MARATHON’S GLOBE AND DOLTON TO COMPETE AT NEXT LEVEL
By Riley McDonald
Two Marathon athletes signed letters of intent to play collegiate sports on April 26. Dylan Globe will be attending Avila University in Kansas City, Missouri....
IN PICTURES: WILD CONDITIONS PUSH DRIVERS TO THE BRINK IN 7-MILE GRAND PRIX
More than 60 teams that were registered for the weekend’s races found smooth sailing on Saturday, with throngs of spectators lined up on land and on the...
IN PICTURES: MHS BAND PERFORMS SPRING CONCERT
The Marathon High School band’s “Jazz in Marathon” concert brought the school’s finest musicians to the stage on April 27 for the band program’s final performance of...
MONROE COUNTY EOC CONSTRUCTION CLEARS MILESTONE
On April 25, AJAX celebrated the “topping off” of the new Monroe County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in Marathon. The topping off is the completion of the...
MARATHON WORKFORCE HOUSING APARTMENTS DEEMED STRUCTURALLY UNSAFE; TENANTS SCRAMBLE TO FIND OTHER OPTIONS
For more than a week after being displaced from their apartments when a balcony collapsed on April 15, the tenants in the 16 workforce housing units at...
