WILD THINGS: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE GRAY GHOST

I was not expecting the Gray Ghost, not expecting it to come up the way it did over my shoulder, not expecting it to...

SPORTS & MORE: WOMEN’S FLAG FOOTBALL HAS BEEN A LONG JOURNEY

When I first met Diane Beruldsen, she was teaching at Sugarloaf School and playing as DBQB in a three-team women’s flag football league at...

LABOR DAY: RECOGNIZING AMERICAN WORKERS SINCE 1894

Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, and it came about in response to one of the most dismal chapters in the saga...

QUIT SMOKING, AND YOUR LUNGS AND THE ENVIRONMENT WILL BE HAPPIER

The other day, as I was returning my shopping cart to the corral at the local grocery store in Big Pine, I watched a...

DIVE REPORT: DIPPING ON THE DUANE

This Week’s Dive Report Conditions this past week were a little mixed. The first part of the week we had a great dive on the...

BELOVED MARATHON WEEKLY EDITOR IS MOVING ON … BUT IT’S NOT GOODBYE

Back in 2012, I wrote my first story for the Keys Weekly that put me on the map, so to speak. Never mind that...

IN PICTURES: KEY WEST CONCHS BATTLE MONSIGNOR PACE IN PRE-SEASON FOOTBALL GAME

The Key West High School Conchs faced a tough competitor for a pre-season game on Aug. 20 against Miami’s Monsignor Pace High School. The visiting...

WILD THINGS: GLIDING INTO THE UNEXPECTED

We saw the fake Southernmost Point marker in Satellite Beach, Florida, 437 miles from Cuba, 347 miles north of the real one. It was...

IN PICTURES: KEYS VOLLEYBALL RIVALRY

Key West High traveled to Marathon Tuesday for girls JV and Varsity volleyball. Key West JV beat Marathon JV 2-0 and the Key West...

HYPERBARIC MEDICINE: MARINERS HOSPITAL IS BREAKING THE MOLD

Hyperbaric Chamber. Just the name sounds intimidating. “Chamber” sounds like a prison, and “baric” sounds too much like “barbaric” or … ew … barium,...