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• KEY WEST AND CORAL SHORES SWAP COURT WINS March 13, 2025
  Key West’s tennis players traveled to Coral Shores on March 4, where the Lady Conchs defeated the Lady ’Canes on their home court 5-2. Eva Drozdetskaia and Gabriela Aguero won the Nos. 1 and 2 singles matches and Leyla Atilla won at the No. 4 spot. Drozdetskaia and Aguero won at No. 1 doubles and […]
• BREWER GETS $3M BOND PENDING MURDER TRIAL; GARRETT HUGHES’ SHOOTER NOW ON HOUSE ARREST March 13, 2025
  Judge Mark Jones on March 7 granted a $3 million bond to Preston Brewer, who police say shot and killed Garrett Hughes in a bar parking lot hours after the Super Bowl in February 2023. Brewer has been in jail on murder and other charges since the shooting occurred in the rear parking lot of […]
• SHOULD KEY WEST MAYORS SERVE 4-YEAR TERMS? VOTERS WILL DECIDE IN NOVEMBER March 13, 2025
  Key West’s city commissioners are elected to four-year terms, but the mayor’s term is only two years — as of now. That could change on Nov. 4, when Key West voters will be asked to participate in a special election to decide whether to give the city’s mayors the same four-year terms as their commissioner […]
• WATER PROJECT RESUMES NEAR TAVERNIER CREEK BRIDGE: NORTHBOUND LANE CLOSURE REDUCED IN BID TO ALLEVIATE TRAFFIC March 13, 2025
  As contractors continue installing new and larger water transmission main into the ground on Islamorada’s Plantation Key, another crew began work to install a new pipe underwater at Tavernier Creek Bridge beginning on March 9. Traffic heading north slowed as one U.S. 1 lane was shut down between Royal Poinciana and Ocean boulevards to let […]
• ‘RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY’: SPACEX STARSHIP EXPLODES IN SKIES NEAR FLORIDA KEYS March 13, 2025
  On March 6, dozens of videos of the fiery skies over Marathon spread like wildfire on social media when a test flight of SpaceX’s uncrewed Starship rocket ended in flames off the coast of Florida. But that was no asteroid creating ‘Armageddon’-like red streaks in the sky. In what the company called a ‘rapid unscheduled […]
• UTTER ‘NUNSENSE’: CONVENT COMEDY TAKES THE STAGE AT MARATHON COMMUNITY THEATRE March 13, 2025
  And now, for some biblical math. If a bit of accidental food poisoning kills 52 nuns, but the Mother Superior went on a shopping spree and now only has the money to bury 48 of them, how much cash will it take to get the convent out of the jam? Such is the dilemma for […]