DO YOU HAVE A DRIVER’S LICENSE? ARE YOU SURE?
This might shock those who know me, but on the first day of March … I was officially the bad boy of Marathon.
The last thing I expected...
KEYS TOURISM BOARD FIRES TOP MARKETING DIRECTOR IN UNANIMOUS DECISION
The Monroe County Tourism Development Council Board fired its top employee, marketing director Stacey Mitchell, in a unanimous vote Tuesday, five months after a county audit questioned...
TWO CRASHES DELAY ENTRY INTO THE KEYS
A pair of crashes stopped motorists from entering the Florida Keys via the 18-Mile Stretch and Card Sound Road on March 22.
First responders were first called to...
FRED THE TREE GOES HOLLYWOOD IN NEW ‘ROAD HOUSE’ MOVIE
“Road House,” the new release from Amazon Prime starring a shredded Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor, purportedly takes place in the Florida Keys.
But the movie doesn’t resemble...
FUGITIVE MARATHON PASTOR WANTED FOR ASSAULTING 15-YEAR-OLD CAUGHT IN TEXAS
A Marathon pastor facing charges for molesting a 15-year-old girl has been apprehended in Texas just four days after skipping his April 1 arraignment, Monroe County Sheriff...
ISLAMORADA COUNCIL REVERSES COURSE ON REFERENDUM FOR STAGGERED 4-YEAR TERMS
Islamorada council turned down a pair of ordinances related to a referendum for staggered four-year terms and upping the village manager’s purchasing authority from $25,000 to $50,000.
At...
ROADWAY RESURFACING BEGINS IN JUNE ON THIS SECTION OF THE 18-MILE STRETCH
Resurfacing work will begin later this summer on a rough stretch of highway between Jewfish Creek Bridge in Key Largo and the Miami-Dade County line.
Between the growing...
WHAT IS THE FUTURE FOR ARTIFICIAL REEFS? SANCTUARY ADVISORY COUNCIL BLENDS OPTIMISM AND CAUTION
An outline of the future for Monroe County’s artificial reef program was met with a mixture of anticipation, caution and debate at the April 16 meeting of...
CUBAN MIGRANTS RESCUED FROM AN UNINHABITED UPPER KEYS ISLAND
A group of Cuban migrants made landfall on an uninhabited Upper Keys island after sailing the treacherous waters off the Florida Keys.
Federal, state and local authorities responded...
KEY LARGO SEES A MOSQUITO SWEEP FROM LOCAL INSPECTORS
A focused, door-to-door effort to eliminate and treat habitats for potentially disease-spreading mosquitoes kicked off in Key Largo on the morning of April 16.
This “sweep” brought trained...
