Tag: Monroe County
$600,000 AWARDED TO SHELTER TO ASSIST HOMELESS YOUNG ADULTS IN THE FLORIDA KEYS
The Florida Keys Children’s Shelter (FKCS) recently received a federal grant award over a three-year period, totaling $600,000 from the U.S. Department of Health...
$13M FROM BIDEN’S AMERICAN RESCUE ACT ALLOCATED TO MONROE COUNTY SCHOOLS
Beverly Anders, Monroe County School District’s executive director of finance, announced in the most recent school board meeting that $13 million in federal funds...
NATION’S OVERDOSE RATE SKYROCKETS; SHERIFF SAYS KEYS HAS TO BE ‘VIGILANT’
Back in April, when Rhonda Brewer’s 31-year-old son Marshall Carlton “Carly” Simonds visited her at his childhood home in Islamorada, she looked into his...
IN PICTURES: CONCH REPUBLIC BURNS THE HURRICANE FLAG IN CELEBRATION OF THE END OF...
The Florida Keys emerged from hurricane season relatively unscathed, and celebrated on Nov. 30, the last day of the storm season, by setting the...
STATE & FEDS TEAM UP TO COMBAT RISING MANATEE DEATHS
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) are working to address a manatee unusual mortality...
MONROE COUNTY SURVEYS BUILDINGS FOR SAFETY AFTER MIAMI CONDO COLLAPSE
Following the tragic collapse of the Champlain Towers South, a mid-rise condominium building in Surfside, Florida, the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC)...
WOLTANSKI RUNNING FOR SCHOOL BOARD RE-ELECTION, UPPER KEYS DISTRICT 5
Sue Woltanski has an all-consuming passion. And it occupies her from when she wakes up in the morning till she goes to sleep at...
JIMMY MORGAN SWORN IN AS MARATHON’S NEWEST JUDGE
On Oct. 27, Monroe County’s bench gained its newest judge as Jimmy Morgan was sworn in by Judge Mark H. Jones.
“I always identified him...
MONROE COUNTY LOSES 10 FIREFIGHTERS TO HIGHER-PAYING MAINLAND JOBS
Monroe County Fire Chief Steven Hudson confirmed to Keys Weekly that his department has lost between 10 and 12 staff members within the last...
‘WE’RE LOSING KIDS’: MONROE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT CONCERNED ABOUT TRUANCY
At the Oct. 12 and Oct. 16 Monroe County School Board meetings, board members and staff said that they are concerned about students’ “chronic...
