MONROE COUNTY GUIDANCE/CARE CENTER OFFERS SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING
Sometimes our friends here in the Keys are gripped by such overwhelming moods and problems that they need help from others. In fact, the emotional black cloud...
FLORIDA KEYS SHERIFF USES DRUG MONEY TO BUY NEW SAFETY GEAR
Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay recently made it easier for his deputies to serve, protect and save lives in more ways than one.
Ramsay spent about $130,000 of...
Marathon Council focuses on dollars and cents
Executives from Baptist Health South Florida showed up in force at the Marathon Council meeting on April 13. The new CEO of Fishermen’s Community Hospital and Mariners...
OPINION: ORAL HEALTH, EXERCISE AND SLEEP ARE IMPORTANT COMPONENTS TO AGING
Is it possible to get older without aging? Many newspaper articles have been written about a book recently published by aging-research scientist Andrew Steele. In it, Steele...
Baptist Health opens vaccine appointments in Islamorada
Baptist Health South Florida is opening up Covid-19 vaccine appointments to individuals 18 and over during a clinic set for next week at Island Christian School in...
Vaccines trickle into community health organizations
By Jim McCarthy, Sara Matthis and Mandy Miles
Between mass vaccine clinics and pharmacies coming on line, a little more than 25,700 Covid-19 shots have entered the arms...
NO GMO RELEASES — YET. TRIAL WILL START IN SIX LOCATIONS.
The Keys Weekly Newspapers checked in with the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) to ask for an update on the Oxitec mosquito trial set to begin...
KCB’S APRIL FOOL’S DAY RUN IS NO JOKE
Organizers are holding the 7M(eter) Sadowski Bridge Run on Thursday, April 1, at 2 p.m. but it’s not an April Fool’s joke. It really will happen.
As usual,...
AUTISM CENTER OPENS IN THE UPPER KEYS
With Autism Awareness Month in April, the Carrie Brazer Center for Autism has announced its opening in Tavernier.
The new center will offer services to the community that...
DO YOU NEED A GOLDFISH? PETS REDUCE STRESS
Recently my wife Mindy stumbled across an National Institutes of Health article about pet ownership and health. It discussed the multiple ways that pets of different types...
