Arrests in spiny lobster probe
March 21, 2019
A two-year investigation, led by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, has resulted in the arrest of three suspects for conducting a criminal conspiracy to exploit the spiny...more
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March 21, 2019
Three ships permanently connected two worlds more than 500 years ago, when, in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Instead of falling off the edge of the horizon, the explorer found a new world...more
County to address housing, hurricane recovery
March 21, 2019
The Monroe County Commission will soon meet to discuss and vote on several issues tied to promoting worker housing and continuing its efforts to recover from Hurricane Irma.Commissioners will...more
News
Gillum wants to register 1 million Florida voters for 2020
MIAMI — Former Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum wants to register at least 1 million voters in an effort to make the state swing blue in the 2020 presidential race, he...more
Florida Senate panel delays vote on school safety bill
March 21, 2019TALLAHASSEE — A Florida Senate committee has postponed consideration of broad school safety bill that would make some teachers eligible to carry weapons in the classroom. Senate...more
Hope spawns in Florida Keys’ battle with coral disease
March 21, 2019Scientists caring for corals rescued from the Florida Keys reef have reported a baby boom of sorts. The encouraging news comes from The Florida Aquarium’s Apollo Beach Conservation Campus,...more
Push to ban Florida sanctuary cities advances amid warning
March 21, 2019TALLAHASSEE — A proposal that requires local law enforcement agencies to support federal authorities on immigration matters was approved by a Florida House committee Wednesday, while a...more
Resort manager arrested after heated altercation
March 21, 2019A simmering dock dispute at a closed Islamorada motel and marina boiled over into a felony arrest March 13, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office reported.Smugglers Cove Resort manager and caretaker...more
Bookings for 03/21/19 All charges are preliminary
Man sentenced to prison for burglary after Irma
March 21, 2019A Key West man was sentenced to a little over one year in state prison after he pleaded no contest to burglarizing a store days after Hurricane Irma struck the Keys.Monroe County Circuit Court Judge Mark Jones sentenced Deondra Medley, 46, to 13 months prison on charges of burglary of a structure during a declared State of Emergency and felony petit...more
“Look at Admiral’s Cut like the southern border wall; it separates us from them. The reluctant few that you refer to are the locals who paid for the park and expected to have a place virtually free of tourists; very few of those in downtown Key West. As for the many that you were keeping on the other side, the reluctance is born of experience: they’ve already trashed Duval Street. Let them...more
Man sentenced to prison for burglary after Irma
March 21, 2019A Key West man was sentenced to a little over one year in state prison after he pleaded no contest to burglarizing a store days after Hurricane Irma struck the Keys.Monroe County Circuit Court Judge Mark Jones sentenced Deondra Medley, 46, to 13 months prison on charges of burglary of a structure during a declared State of Emergency and felony petit...more
“Look at Admiral’s Cut like the southern border wall; it separates us from them. The reluctant few that you refer to are the locals who paid for the park and expected to have a place virtually free of tourists; very few of those in downtown Key West. As for the many that you were keeping on the other side, the reluctance is born of experience: they’ve already trashed Duval Street. Let them...more
Key Largo, Islamorada, Marathon & Big Pine News
Trust seeks bids for caboose renovation
ISLAMORADA — The Islamorada caboose arrived in the Florida Keys about a half-century after the 1935 Labor Day hurricane destroyed the Florida East Coast Railway to Key West, yet remains a visible...more
Board opposes closing park for events
March 20, 2019ISLAMORADA — For a village meeting on Founders Park noise, it turned out to be pretty quiet.No changes for Founders Park event rules were proposed during a March 12 special session of...more
Council declines seal, hears hospital update
March 20, 2019MARATHON — The Marathon City Council refused last week to canonize an official seal during a second required public vote and heard a report that the community hospital fundraising campaign is...more
Creative dishes and artistic vision
March 20, 2019ISLAMORADA — The 4th Annual Islamorada Seafood Festival & Art Show will feature creative seafood samplings from more than 25 of the Upper Keys’ top restaurant chefs. The show runs from 11...more
District probes payroll fees
March 20, 2019KEY LARGO — The Key Largo Volunteer Ambulance Corps says finding a payroll provider at a lower cost appears doubtful.A request was made by the Key Largo Fire Rescue & Emergency Medical...more
Editorials
Cheers and Jeers
Cheers: to State Attorney Dennis Ward and all those involved with bringing charges against the tourist who jumped on the pelican and posted the video. As with poaching, sending a message of...more
Cheers and Jeers
March 9, 2019Cheers: to the Long Term Recovery Group for their out-of-the box thinking to provide housing for volunteers. Their new housing units based on movable storage containers is a good one in use in...more
Cheers and Jeers: March 2
March 2, 2019Cheers: to the City of Key West for fixing some of the third world streets throughout the City. Please keep the momentum going. Jeers: to all those whining about the inconvenience of having those...more
Polarizing topic sparks attention
March 2, 2019The reaction to our column last weekend about the Board of County Commissioners quashing Goal 109, a county-crafted workforce housing initiative that would have allowed as much as a 50 percent...more
Friends of the Lower Keys take exception to Goal 109 column
March 1, 2019The publisher of The Citizen has called News of the Near Future — a publication from Friends of the Lower Keys (FOLKs) — an “extreme, irresponsible” step. That’s incorrect. FOLKs described a...more
Sports
Jolly’s racks up pair of wins for edge in league standings
With three runs in the top of the sixth and final frame, Paradise knotted the game at 20, but Charlie Mac’s scored three in the bottom of six to claim the victory in recent Key West Men’s...more
Conchs rally for two wins on day No. 2
March 21, 2019After a 0-2 start on Monday in the Gulf Coast Classic II in Gulf Coast, Alabama, the Key West High School softball team came back on Tuesday with a pair of much-needed wins. After the two...more
Lightning get by Wahoo for 14-and-Under win
March 21, 2019Before the Southernmost Hockey Club took two weeks off for spring break, the 14-and-Under age group took their final match downw to the waning moments. The Check Electric Lightning skated to a...more
PREP SOFTBALL: Miscues result in pair of defeats for Key West in Alabama
March 20, 2019Opening day of the Gulf Coast Classic II softball tournament did not go well for the Key West High School softball team. Playing for the second year in the highly competitive event in Gulf...more
Players gear up for 8th annual Wooden Bat event
March 19, 2019Spring has sprung and it is time for the eighth annual Wooden Bat Adult Baseball Tournament. The Tommy Lapp’s All Stars and Tony Mendez Key West Conchs will take to the diamond at newly...more