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KEYS WEEKLY’S STUDENT OF THE WEEK

The Upper Keys Weekly is proud to partner with Coral Shores’ faculty and students in choosing “The Student of the Week.” Recipients are chosen...

A dead whale washed up in the Everglades. Turns out, it’s a new species...

In January 2019, a 38-foot, 30-ton whale washed up on Sandy Key in the Everglades. I happened to be camping at Flamingo, by chance,...

WILD THINGS: PRESERVING THE SPIRIT OF KEY WEST’S FRAN FORD

I was thinking about Fran Ford the other day. Possibly because I was sitting on a bench in the shade of a giant ficus...

MARATHON’S ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Lilian Guo

What do you enjoy about being on the tennis team? I enjoy getting to grow as a player. Every year my skills increase. I...

DISTRICT CHAMPS: MARATHON HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER TEAM ADVANCES

Marathon High School soccer coach Arno Silva said the high school team has been dreaming about a championship trophy for three years.  “We felt this...

BARTUS IS CELEBRATING HIS 37TH YEAR IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS IN THE KEYS

Thirty-seven years. Three-point-seven decades gone by. 1984 was a big year in my world, and the world in general. Apple introduced the Macintosh. Michael Jackson...

KEYS COUPLE PUBLISHES A LOVE LETTER TO LIFE & EACH OTHER

“I always wish to be meeting you somewhere,” poet Greg Cantrell writes to his wife, the artist Marlene Koenig. Evidence of that wish and...

CELEBRATING LOVE, KEYS STYLE. SUBMIT YOUR PICS TO BE FEATURED!

Our theme for FEBRUARY is LOVE ON THE ROCK. We want to know about what love is like in our islands (the good, the...

CRAZY LITTLE BOOKS ABOUT LOVE

This is a funny year to break out the Valentine hearts and chocolates. Couples who have been quarantined together could probably use a little...

KEYS SCHOONER TOOK FREED SLAVES TO WEST AFRICA; BUT HUNDREDS DIED BEFORE THE TRIP

President James Monroe, on March 3, 1819, signed “An Act to Protect the Commerce of the United States, and Crimes of Piracy.” The act...