Construction begins Monday
July 21, 2018
Developers will start construction this week on the biggest affordable housing project in the Lower Keys in more than a decade. On Thursday, the developers received their building permits for the...more
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July 21, 2018
It was mission accomplished Thursday afternoon for theKey West Assisted-Living Coalition, which worked for 15 years toestablisha facility that would allow Key West seniors to “age in place,” and...more
City officials: Budget cuts more than nonprofit funding
July 21, 2018
Key West’s finance director was sympathetic to the six local nonprofits whose funding requestswere eliminatedfrom this year’s proposed $167 million city budget, but emphasized that those...more
News
Be safe, follow laws during lobster mini-season
As the Keys gear up for the two-day lobster mini-season, law enforcement agencies are reminding participants to be safe and familiarize themselves with the laws regarding lobster hunting during...more
Bernstein Park to partially reopen Monday
July 21, 2018Monroe County’s Bernstein Park on Stock Island will partially reopen on Monday, July 23, at 7 a.m. The sections that are ready to open are the children’s playground, basketball court, walking...more
Longtime locals offer Havana Day Trip among other adventures
July 21, 2018It wasnearing8 a.m.when eight travelers boarded thenine-passengerplane at Key West International Airport. They had arrived alone and in small groups, an assembly of strangers, signing papers and...more
Planning board talks transient rentals
July 21, 2018The Key West Planning Board approved most of the requests that came before them Thursday night, but not without starting ashort discussion about the board’s authority — or lack thereof —...more
Proposed budget cuts nonprofit funding
July 20, 2018The directors of six local nonprofit organizations awoke Thursday morning to an email saying the funds they’d requested — and previously received — from the city of Key West’s budget were not...more
Bookings for 07/22/18 All charges are preliminary
‘Do you know what voodoo is?’
July 21, 2018On Tuesday, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Tavernier man while serving a warrant, but not before he violently resisted arrest and threatened the deputies’ lives. Saul Arrazcaeta, 19, was charged with battery on an officer, threats against an officer and resisting an officer with violence. Deputies arrived at Arrazcaeta’s residence in...more
“It’s time for a new city manager. We need someone who is not afraid to make tough calls and hold the line on tax increases, instead of threatening a few high-profile non-profits to win public support for higher taxes. It’s time to reduce staff, freeze raises, and ask city employees to pay more for health...more
‘Do you know what voodoo is?’
July 21, 2018On Tuesday, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Tavernier man while serving a warrant, but not before he violently resisted arrest and threatened the deputies’ lives. Saul Arrazcaeta, 19, was charged with battery on an officer, threats against an officer and resisting an officer with violence. Deputies arrived at Arrazcaeta’s residence in...more
“It’s time for a new city manager. We need someone who is not afraid to make tough calls and hold the line on tax increases, instead of threatening a few high-profile non-profits to win public support for higher taxes. It’s time to reduce staff, freeze raises, and ask city employees to pay more for health...more
Key Largo, Islamorada, Marathon & Big Pine News
Below surface, women divers make advances
UPPER KEYS — Women who explore the underwater world can plunge into several Upper Keys events this month. Women Dive Day, launched by the PADI dive-certification agency in 2015, offers...more
Company proposing free electric mini-bus rides
July 18, 2018ISLAMORADA — A transportation company plans to pitch its free ride service aboard electric mini-buses to Village Council members at their Thursday, July 19, meeting. Freebee proposes to...more
Is FDOT pedestrian bridge out of step?
July 18, 2018ISLAMORADA — Plans for a walkway bridge over U.S. 1 troubled a number of Islamorada residents July 10. “We thought it was going to be a temporary bridge, so I am disappointed,”...more
Love is patient
July 18, 2018KEY LARGO — Former high school classmates unfold a classic love story — nearly 60 years in the making, proving that love is patient. At last, the happy couple will wed this weekend....more
New facility offers mental healing campus
July 18, 2018KEY LARGO — Kinder in the Keys, a mental health treatment center focused on total body and mind recovery from depression, anxiety, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder and eating...more
Editorials
Cheers and Jeers
Jeers: to the Monroe County governments who are proposing raises for employees this year.Most received excessive amounts of overtime pay for Hurricane Irma, and excluding the first responders,...more
Cheers and Jeers: July 21
July 21, 2018Jeers: to the Monroe County governments who are proposing raises for employees this year.Most received excessive amounts of overtime pay for Hurricane Irma, and excluding the first responders,...more
Sometimes we need to swallow the bitter pill
July 21, 2018Few things in life are absolute. Some things are simply “More right and less wrong”. Such was the case with this week’s unanimous decision by the Monroe Board of County Commissioners to establish...more
Cheers and Jeers
July 14, 2018Cheers: to Reef Relief’s annual Coral Camp for children. Each of the weeklong sessions includes educational and fun activities to teach children about the environment. With hands-on...more
Thank you Key West, for the hospitality
July 7, 2018My husband and I recently had a fabulous time in Key West. We did everything tourists are suppose to do. We ate, had tours, bought souvenirs and rode the informative trolley. We were having a...more
Sports
Basketball camp stresses education/work
The foundation of Whatever It Takes to Succeed is education, learning something every day, said Ryan Johnson on Thursday afternoon at the Bobby Menendez Gymnasium. Johnson, who is founder and CEO...more
LEARNING EVERY DAY
July 21, 2018It is hard for race coordinator Barbara Wright to remember exactly how many years the Hemingway Days 5K Sunset Run/Walk has been in existence. Regardless of the age, the run— one of the oldest...more
OLD STYLE FISHING
July 21, 2018The 2018 Havana Club Key West Marlin Tournament, held in conjunction with the island city’s annual Hemingway Days celebration, is underway with a total of 36 boats fishing for marlin and other...more
Milliken 5-for-5 leads Morays; Gregurich 2 HR powers Jaibas
July 20, 2018A 10-run second and seven more in the third piloted the T&W Chevron Auto Repair Morays to a 26-5 win over the Big Coppitt Gun Club Snappers on Friday night in Men’s Over-39 Softball League...more
Johnson drills 44 to aid NMB win over Rodriguez
July 19, 2018After three weeks of action in the Key West Adult Summer Basketball League, the Tune Squad holds on to first place with a 6-1 record but AAU team is close behind at 5-1. GBE and the FLYT Club are...more
