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Islamorada community members weren’t only retrieving their mail inside the U.S. Post Office on Upper Matecumbe Key in recent days. They were also receiving word that the post office would close for good in a few months. As word spread, it triggered efforts to formulate a petition to save the post office at 82803 Overseas

Key West lawmakers will consider more than tax rates and parking revenues at next week’s final budget meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 22.  Commissioner Donie Lee wants to negotiate an “amicable separation agreement” with City Manager Brian L. Barroso to end his employment “on mutually agreeable terms, in a prompt and time-sensitive manner,” states the proposed

A 46-year-old woman wanted for fentanyl and cocaine sales in Marathon was arrested on Sept. 13 after being extradited from Nebraska. According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, Jessica Melissa Borysiewicz faces a litany of charges including trafficking fentanyl, cocaine possession and sales, fleeing and eluding, battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest

The Key West Police Department is warning of a recent phone scam involving people impersonating federal law enforcement agents and claiming to be affiliated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Callers claim they are federal agents investigating fraudulent or financial schemes. They warn that the target’s personal, financial and identity data are at risk.

Just before sunrise on Sept. 9, 1975, state agent Larry Campbell and another officer made an unannounced visit to the home of Monroe County Sheriff Bobby Brown. They picked him up and, only then, filled him in on the secret operation about to unfold across Key West. Brown tried not to appear blindsided. By most