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Citizens Insurance ready for hurricane season   By JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDATALLAHASSEE — Citizens Property Insurance enters the 2014 hurricane season believing its …

Second resignation protests trash contract   BY PRU SOWERS KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER   A second founding member of the Key West Sustainability Advisory Board …

Public access to city financial records coming with new software   BY PRU SOWERS KONKLIFE STAFF WRITER   City financial information is slated to become …

PHOTO/ 2013 Award Winners Savannah Robinson, Austin Rodriguez and Jordan Cress-Morrison receive prize money from Music in Paradise Managing Director Michael Kilgore.   Sunday concert …

Planning Board passes on food trucks crackdown   BY PRU SOWERS KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER   The Planning Board has sidestepped efforts by Key West …

No surprises on new City Hall project   BY PRU SOWERS KONKLIFE STAFF WRITER   The conversion of the former Glynn Archer School into a …

  Lybrand issues ‘last plea’ to cut trash collection   BY PRU SOWERS KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER   David Lybrand, who resigned recently from the …

Explorers Program brought back to life   BY PRU SOWERS KONKLIFE STAFF WRITER   Beonte Stemage is a fairly typical teenager, excited about graduating from …

PHOTO/Mark Howell From left are Papia Yasmin, her daughters Anika and Atia and their father Muhammad Tarafder. Absent was their brother Ishtiaque Ahmed.   TSIC …

United Way to distribute $145,000 in grants to 13 nonprofits United Way of the Florida Keys has announced that it will distribute a total of …

NOAA predicts near-normal or below-normal 2014 Atlantic hurricane season In its 2014 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued Thursday, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting a near-normal or below-normal …

Peter Anderson’s Continuing Story of the Conch Republic   Fort Jefferson: A shut and open case for the Republic   AS TOLD TO MARK HOWELL …

Solar panels planned for wastewater treatment plant   BY PRU SOWERS KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER   Continuing its efforts to “go green,” Key West city …

  New trash contract may hurt recycling efforts   BY PRU SOWERS KONKLIFE STAFF WRITER   Fallout from the recent City Commission vote to award …

PHOTO/ MARK HOWELL Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the grounds of the Porter Mansion, mid-1990s.     Spontaneous bop encounters with the Beats   BY MARK HOWELL …

Video surveillance camera program clicking for Duval   BY PRU SOWERS KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER   A plan to install police video surveillance cameras on …

Two deaths while snorkeling off Marathon, Dry Tortugas BY RALPH MORROW MANAGING EDITOR Two people, a Pennsylvania woman and a man from Texas, died while …

Florida Keys Educational Foundation increases efforts   BY RICK BOETTGER KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER   The Florida Keys Educational Foundation is a private non-profit with …

PHOTO/ CALEA Chairperson J. Grayson Robinson, left, MCSO Captain Chad Scibilia, MCAO Accreditation Specialists Tondra Davis and Rachelle Gates, MCSO Lt. Cindy Peryam, Sheriff Rick …

PHOTO/Alyson Crean Key West Police Chief Donie Lee and Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay salute fallen law enforcement officers during the 2013 memorial Law Enforcement …