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• LONG KEY FISHING CLUB REELS IN THE FUN AGAIN February 20, 2025
  One of the Keys’ oldest fishing clubs is pulsing with renewed life.  Driven by the efforts of club president Dave Matney, the historic Long Key Fishing Club, now reborn as the Outdoor Resorts Long Key Fishing Club, has once again been resurrected from the echoes of Henry Flagler’s 1908 Long Key Fish Camp. “There were […]
• COMING TO THE GIGANTIC NAUTICAL MARKET? TAKE THESE INSIDER TIPS  February 20, 2025
  Tens of thousands of visitors will enter the gates during the two-day Gigantic Nautical Market at Founders Park in Islamorada. Awaiting their arrival are hundreds of vendors, as well as local student volunteers and an army of Rotarians devoting their time at the bus stops, front gates and on park grounds at drink booths.  Here […]
• BATS ABLAZE IN EARLY-SEASON WINS FOR KEYS TEAMS ON THE DIAMOND February 20, 2025
  Baseball love was in the air at Rex Weech on Feb. 14 when the Conchs took on the ABF Academy Cowboys out of Hialeah. The Cowboys got out to a quick lead in inning one, but Key West shut them down after that, pouring on 11 runs in five innings of play and holding ABF […]
• ISLAND ASTROLOGER: CHECK YOUR HOROSCOPES THIS WEEK February 20, 2025
  The sun has entered the dreamy, watery world of Pisces, the time of year when we allow ourselves to remember that reality is as much about our hopes and ideals as it is about the hard facts of life. Sure, there are practical constraints that keep us in check, but those structures can be moved […]
• JUDGE DENIES PRESTON BREWER’S SELF-DEFENSE CLAIM IN GARRETT HUGHES MURDER CASE February 20, 2025
  A judge on Feb. 12 shot down Lloyd Preston Brewer III’s claim that he was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed the unarmed Garrett Hughes in the parking lot of a local bar, hours after the Super Bowl on Feb. 13, 2023.  Judge Mark Jones also ruled that Brewer is entitled to be […]
• HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS OFF THE FLORIDA KEYS HARM FISHERMEN February 20, 2025
  For South Florida’s commercial fishermen, the effects of red tides on their operations have become a grim annual reality.  The tides, named for when overproduction of the harmful algae Karenia brevis leaves significant swaths of red or brown water, can cause fish kills when toxins produced by the algae, known as brevetoxins, affect the central […]