Candidates on display Friday at Hometown! event
June 20, 2018
Official ballots for 2018 elections will be set at noon Friday and a few hours later, voters will get the chance to meet and greet candidates at the Hometown! Meet the Candidates event at 5 p.m....more
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June 20, 2018
Developers filed an application Tuesday to save 95 units of workforce housing and create another 184 units of affordable housing on Stock Island. The Miami-based real estate firm Integra...more
Duval brawl leads to attack with crowbar
June 20, 2018
The Key West Police Department arrested a Lake Worth, Florida man on Sunday after he attacked another man with a crowbar on Duval Street. Kenneth Kopp, 36, is being charged with aggravated...more
News
New PKS expected to open mid-year
ISLAMORADA — When students fill the halls of the new Plantation Key School, they can stroll down Discovery Boulevard to spend time at the Learning Piazza. Discovery Boulevard is a main hall...more
No timeline for repairs to park’s ball fields
June 20, 2018TAVERNIER — Work has begun on the storm-damaged athletic fields at Monroe County’s Harry Harris Park, though no timeline for a resumption of baseball and softball games is...more
Record rains were recorded last month in county
June 20, 2018MONROE COUNTY — As summer dawns early Thursday, the Florida Keys bid farewell to a soggy spring. Key West sloshed through the wettest May on record, about four times the average rainfall...more
Tired of clutter? Business helps sort things out
June 20, 2018KEY LARGO — Deanna “DeDe” Mousseau has predicated her professional home organization business, DeDeClutterfy, upon her belief that people pack every nook and cranny of their...more
Village seeks public vote on four-year terms
June 20, 2018ISLAMORADA — Two-year terms for Village Council members, which once were four years, could become four years again. Some villagers, however, are not too enthusiastic about the proposal....more
Bookings for 06/20/18 All charges are preliminary
Woman with knife threatens officers
June 20, 2018The Key West Police Department arrested a Key West woman on Monday after she attacked her ex-girlfriend, stole a minor’s bike and then threatened officers. Around 10:15 p.m., officers responded to a report that a woman was starting fights with people in the area of Catherine and Duval streets. According to the report, after arriving
“An editorial column in the New York Times last week suggested that worker housing shortages could be addressed with an easing of controls regulating ‘Boarding Houses.’ Forty years ago, most of the 19th Century family homes in Key West were affordable rooms or apartment rentals. Making it easier today for owners with spare spaces to...more
Woman with knife threatens officers
June 20, 2018The Key West Police Department arrested a Key West woman on Monday after she attacked her ex-girlfriend, stole a minor’s bike and then threatened officers. Around 10:15 p.m., officers responded to a report that a woman was starting fights with people in the area of Catherine and Duval streets. According to the report, after arriving
“An editorial column in the New York Times last week suggested that worker housing shortages could be addressed with an easing of controls regulating ‘Boarding Houses.’ Forty years ago, most of the 19th Century family homes in Key West were affordable rooms or apartment rentals. Making it easier today for owners with spare spaces to...more
Key Largo, Islamorada, Marathon & Big Pine News
City prepared for takeoff, but lacks an airline
MARATHON — The Florida Keys Marathon International Airport can boast of a long runway, a welcoming terminal, convenient car rentals and parking. Just one missing ingredient remains: a...more
Council tables decision on US 1 access closures
June 20, 2018ISLAMORADA — A plan to close access to U.S. 1 from two Upper Matecumbe Key streets was proceeding too fast, Village Council members agreed June 14. Under the pending proposal, the...more
Navy commander enjoys Elks fishing program
June 20, 2018TAVERNIER — U.S. Navy Watch Commander (MA1) Stephan Dombroski-Ferguson is Florida Keys Elks Lodge 1872’s most recently sponsored military member to enjoy two days at sea through its...more
New bridge run director amped up for event
June 20, 2018KEY LARGO — The Key Largo Bridge Run, set to return this November after a brief hiatus, is being put on by new race director Enrique “Henry” Menendez and his race...more
New PKS expected to open mid-year
June 20, 2018ISLAMORADA — When students fill the halls of the new Plantation Key School, they can stroll down Discovery Boulevard to spend time at the Learning Piazza. Discovery Boulevard is a main hall...more
Editorials
Cheers and Jeers
Cheers: to the Monroe County Public Library system for its summer reading program, along with the preschool story times for the wee ones. It’s never too early to begin reading to children....more
Affordable housing is crisis of our making
June 15, 2018Affordable Housing. The crisis is at the top of everyone’s mind, yet the solution seems as far away as ever. This problem is far from new; historians can bring up examples of various...more
Is fasting a good way to lose weight? Yes. No. Maybe.
June 14, 2018Last week, I explained a little bit about the more popular fasting programs for weight loss. There are 24-hour fasts where you eat nothing for a full day once or twice a week; Intermittent daily...more
Cheers and Jeers
June 9, 2018Cheers: to the city of Key West for planting canopy trees and Royal Poincianas at the Truman Waterfront park. It will be a much more pleasant area to visit and play with the shade trees and the...more
Cheers and Jeers
June 2, 2018Cheers: to all of the 2018 high school graduates who received their diplomas this week. This is an exciting time in your lives as you leave behind your childhoods and begin your journeys to...more
Sports
Hometown angler founded event to help Womankind
The only Florida Keys spearfishing tournament is just around the summer bend with the 7th annual That’s What She Shot Spearfishing Tournament taking place June 22-24. The event invites...more
Troy Curry hits away for Murray Marine
June 20, 20185 Brothers and Murray Marine each collected a pair of victories last week in the Key West Men’s Softball League to hold onto the top two spots in the standings. With an 8-2 mark, 5 Brothers...more
Dolphins drilled during three-day Midwest Elite Basketball camp
June 19, 2018For the third straight year, the Marathon Dolphins and head coach Kevin Freeman hosted a Midwest Elite Basketball camp. The camp, MEB for short, was cofounded by Craig Doty in 2005 and since has...more
Peretti devoted her all for female record swim
June 18, 2018When Oceane Peretti collapsed at the finish line on Smathers Beach, the 20-year-old Florida International University swimmer left it all on the course of the 42nd annual Swim Around Key West. On...more
Weekend Sports on Television
June 16, 2018Saturday, June 16 AUTO RACING FS1 — Camping World Truck Series, M&M’s 200, practice, at Newton, Iowa, 9:30 a.m. FS2 — Camping World Truck Series, M&M’s 200, final...more
