NEW GRANTS HELP HISTORIC RESTAURANTS
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has partnered with American Express to launch a new grants program that aims to help restaurants’ recovery from...
KEYS HEALTH GROUPS GIVE WOMEN’S HEARTS SOME LOVE
Despite the headline-grabbing pandemic still wreaking havoc in our daily lives, the health care professionals at Key West’s Womankind are urgently reminding Keys residents...
Are you spending enough time in green space?
Recently, one of my patients asked me to do a contribution on the health benefits of being outside. My wife, Mindy, was able to...
Children – Heaven’s Angels Walk Among Us
“I believe that children are our future…” – George Benson, “The Greatest Love of All”
“I love children – parboiled!” – W.C. Fields
Actually, George had...
Citizens protest over upcoming release of genetically modified mosquitoes
Safe to say, most people hate mosquitoes. They hate them for reasons ranging from their ruining a gorgeous, cocktailed-up sunset to causing angry, itchy...
Voices of Black History
The Hate U Give
By Angie Thomas
Late one night Starr Carter was driving, with her childhood friend Khalil, home from a party. At 16, Starr...
From farmers to fishermen to preservationists
Oceanfront properties have always been the most coveted parcels in the Florida Keys and not just because of the unobstructed views. In the pioneer...
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE KKK IN KEY WEST
“We’re coming up on the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the (Ku Klux) Klan in Key West,” Arlo Haskell said. “It’s a ......
WILD THINGS: SCUTES & SHITE-POKES AT THE BLUE HOLE
I was up at the Blue Hole on Big Pine the other day, standing on the platform, staring at the gator in the shallow...
BERTELLI WRITES ABOUT SOME OF THE LESSER KNOWN VICTIMS OF LABOR DAY STORM
On the night of Sept. 2, 1935, the Category 5 Labor Day Hurricane’s eye crossed over Lower Matecumbe and Long Key between 9:20 and...
