Town Key West

The Keys Weekly wants Monroe County voters to get to know the candidates who seek to represent them at all levels of city and county government. To that end, we’ve asked each candidate for the two school board races — Districts 1 and 5 — to answer the eight questions below in 500 words. Although

CHELYN SHAW How long have you lived in the Florida Keys, where do you currently live, and what drew you here? I moved to Key Largo in October 2005, nearly 22 years ago, to be close to my family and the beautiful waters of the Florida Keys. The Keys have always felt like home to

I don’t recall actually meeting Bill Verge. It’s more a sense that I’ve simply always known him, at least since 1998, when I arrived in Key West as a rookie reporter.  A year or so later, Verge would be appointed to the Key West Bight board, where he helped manage the city-owned properties around the

No obscure B-side tunes here. In Disney’s “Dare to Dream Jr.,” a new generation behind the microphone speed-runs through nothing but the hits. More than 40 young performers will have their moment under the lights in Marathon Community Theatre’s summer kids camp production this weekend. The fast-moving musical revue takes the cast through their first

By Nancy Klingener and Breana Sowers In 1957, Marie Cappick died at 81. The obituary described her as “one of Key West’s most distinguished writers and citizens of all time” and stated that “for 50 years, Marie Louise Cappick represented the cultural center of Key West.” She was a founder of the Key West Woman’s