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By Nada Khalaf-Jones Laila was sitting in the shade by the side of the road near mile marker 7, with fire ants around her, when deputies found her, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Capt. David Smith told me. “She said she had fallen off her bike and hurt her ankle, but I asked her to walk

On Oct. 18, 1976, some 376 students walked through the doors of a new Plantation Key School for the first day of class.  Fast forward almost 50 years later, a new state-of-the-art school serves as the center for learning for nearly 550 students from pre-K through 8th grade. On Oct. 9, former students and principals

Military forts have long stood in the Florida Keys. The four prominent ones, Fort Zachary Taylor, Fort Jefferson, Fort East Martello and Fort West Martello, were built by the Union during the Civil War.  They are not the only forts that were established in the Florida Keys. During the second escalation of the Seminole War,

No matter how many individuals appear in the pages of each edition of Keys Weekly, there are always so many more of our community members who deserve to be recognized. In an effort to shine a spotlight on more of the incredible individuals who live and work in these islands, Keys Weekly is proud to

Fringe Theater Key West’s upcoming season takes audiences rom small-town America to revolutionary France; from an artist’s studio to a future shaped by artificial intelligence. Fringe Theater’s new season covers a lot of territory, but look a little closer, and the five plays have something very human in common.  “Theater has always been a place