Letter to the Editor: My husband has been active duty in the Coast Guard for over 17 years. We currently
Read More“My last rental of 10 years got sold for a vacation rental…”
Read MoreThe Safe Harbor Community Center Overlay was first proposed 15 years ago to help balance unchecked development on Stock Island with the public need to preserve the diminishing working waterfront…
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A bonefish caught in the Lakes Passage just northwest of Key West harbor was found to have a schizophrenia drug in its bloodstream at a level 296 times the amount normally prescribed to a person. “It also had 8 anti-depressants at 10 to 300 times the human concentration,” says Florida International University (FIU) associate professor Dr. Jennifer Rehage. A week ago Dr. Rehage and FIU PhD candidate Nick Castillo shared the staggering results of a three-year study of the impact of pharmaceuticals on bonefish in South Florida waters with members of Florida Bay Forever in Islamorada.
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Today is/was ‘Florida Keys Day’ in Tallahassee. Got concerns, questions or comments? Forget about it. YOU don’t count!
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“If they told the police that I was on “THEIR” property, they made a false police report,” says Christine Lininger. It’s January 7th, North Roosevelt Boulevard, in what has become a familiar scene: Key West police are detaining activist Christine Lininger as the Marriott Beachside hotel has once again called for her arrest.
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Florida Keys’ so-called “liveaboards” – people who live on boats anchored in nearshore waters – think proposed new regulations are “insane.”
Read MoreDear Editor: Set to come before the Planning Board on December 16th is an agenda item involving the potential limiting
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SORRY!! WE SENT OUT AN INCORRECT LINK IN OUR FIRST EMAIL TODAY (NOVEMBER 13, 2021). IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
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There’s a new ripple in the “Treehouse Murder” case. In a March 8, 2021 deposition, the lead detective claims his boss at the sheriff’s office had coached witnesses and used fabricated evidence in building a murder case against Franklin Tyrone Tucker.
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“I grabbed the fire extinguisher and rushed to the forward cabin,” said Ted. “In less than a minute the floor was so hot the paint started to blister. I was bare foot and I couldn’t even go back. Austin was trying to save the cat and the birds. We had five birds. But there was no time.”
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If Florida’s House of Representatives Tyler Sirois has it his way, the Florida legislature will soon prohibit boat owners from remaining anchored in the same location for more than 90 days anywhere in the Florida Keys.
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Several months ago The Blue Paper received an anonymous tip from a reader stating that Chief of Police, Sean Brandenburg,
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The naked man, who the report says, had committed no crime and posed no threat was pepper sprayed at least five times – once at extremely close range. Riggs even attempted to tase him, and to get in the water and “choke [him] out,” threatened to gaff him, threatened to drown him and ultimately used a potentially lethal choke hold to remove him from the water.
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We report to you from the front – the waterfront that is. It seems that while we are all looking elsewhere private businesses are quietly grabbing and blocking access to publicly owned waterfront…
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Once again the issue of public access to the ocean has pinned some Florida Keys residents against developers and the public officials they lobby…
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O.K. We’ve got to ask: Are our school officials really unable to handle a misbehaving 8-year-old boy without calling for
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*** BREAKING NEWS*** Well, it’s been a long time coming. But here it is. Federal Judge Jose Martinez granted the
Read MoreHere in Stock Island, in just a few years, we have had such over development that we have a hard time getting off Stock Island and onto US 1 highway, the traffic has become horrendous with too many cars. Parking has become an issue. Our neighbors have been evicted from their homes, with no protection from our local government, only assistance to the developers who evicted these families.
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