This is what micro-schooling looks like at the Keys Weekly office
I have already issued one unexcused absence. Max Childress, the 12-year-old son of Patti Childress, a Keys Weekly sales executive, decided not to come to the office...
$159M investment: Marathon, it’s kinda a big deal
Irma, COVID-19, dengue fever, murder hornets, and whatever else comes our way has nothing on what’s happening in our islands of Marathon. Marathon has been growing and...
SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH; LOOK OUT FOR KIDS, TOO
By Alexsa Leto
As we all continue to navigate the pandemic and economic downturn together, more attention is being given to issues of anxiety and depression — whether...
OPINION: VOTE NO ON CRUISE SHIP REFERENDUMS
Dear Editor,
Arlo Haskell, representing Safer Cleaner Ships (SCS), continues to weave his side’s narrative concerning cruise ships and their negative effects on the environment, the economy and...
PEACEFUL WATERS PAYS TRIBUTE TO KEN DAVIS
Peaceful Waters (which aims to preserve the uniqueness of Islamorada and protect surrounding waters) started on the advice of Islamorada Councilman Ken Davis.
Ken Davis was the first...
WHAT HAPPENS IN A PANDEMIC, STAYS IN VEGAS
I’m not saying you should go to Vegas during a pandemic … but I’m not saying you shouldn’t. Across the country, people are tentatively experimenting with safe...
LETTER WRITER SAYS OXITEC SKEETER RELEASE IS ‘PERMANENT EXPERIMENT’
On Aug. 18 the Florida Keys Mosquito Control approved a contract with Oxitec to release a half billion mosquitoes into our environment.
I attended the FKMC board meetings...
OPINION: KEY WEST SURFRIDER GROUP SUPPORTS CRUISE SHIP REFERENDUMS
It all starts with the ocean.
Diving, fishing, sailing, snorkeling — life revolves around our crystal blue waters here in Key West. That is our draw, our lifeline,...
OPINION: CRUISE PASSENGERS COULD BE ‘SAFEST, CLEANEST TOURISTS’
Dear Editor,
Key Westers of all persuasions will certainly agree that the coronavirus pandemic has changed our world and how we look at it. Nearly overnight, long-held paradigms...
WHY THIS LETTER WRITER DROPPED OUT OF POLITICAL CLUB: AMENDMENT 3
Dear Editor,
Today, Florida has a closed primary system where a voter must be a member of the Democratic or Republican party to vote in a primary. There...
