Issue #25 — Friday, August 30, 2013
Can you stand another channel widening article? This one will surprise you – we promise. Interviews with representatives of the US Army Corp of Engineers and NOAA/Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary revealed that nearly everything we have heard so far about the $ 3 Million dollar dredging feasibility study has been wrong. There won’t be Read More...
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JIM HALE: BIRDMAN OF BONE ISLAND I met with local seafarer and pigeon potentate, Jim Hale. The subject of our meeting was pigeons. Yes, pigeons. Long before VHF radio, mariners depended on pigeons to carry important communications ashore. Trained for specific routes, the reliable birds were trusted to deliver life saving messages in all conditions. Read More...
In Response To: 'The Gentrification of Simonton Street Trailer Park'
RE: The Gentrification of Simonton Street Trailer Park (Issue #24, August 23, 2013) A persuasively written article, but it includes a noteworthy mis-statement, i.e, “The Reach …[was] built on land sold by the Catholic Church.” Not [exactly]. The Reach was built on an assemblage of parcels, the major parcel having been owned by David Wolkowsky, who Read More...
In Response To: ‘The Gentrification of Simonton Street Trailer Park’
RE: The Gentrification of Simonton Street Trailer Park (Issue #24, August 23, 2013) A persuasively written article, but it includes a noteworthy mis-statement, i.e, “The Reach …[was] built on land sold by the Catholic Church.” Not [exactly]. The Reach was built on an assemblage of parcels, the major parcel having been owned by David Wolkowsky, who Read More...
In the 70s Neil Young, sang… I’m a vampire, babe, Suckin’ blood from the earth I’m a vampire, baby, Suckin’ blood from the earth. Well, I’m a vampire, babe, Sell you twenty barrels worth. Forty damn years later, long after we were supposed to be FLYING our cars and living in solar houses, we still Read More...
Ooh La La! HAVE YOU BEEN TO FRENCHIE’S CAFE?
Unique! Charming! Cool! Frenchie’s Café is one of those places you came to Key West to discover and enjoy!. Key West used to be filled with one-of-a-kind establishments, but over the years many of those unique, special places have sadly gone by the wayside. Enter Frenchie’s Café! Where do I start? Shall I tell you Read More...
Ooh La La! HAVE YOU BEEN TO FRENCHIE'S CAFE?
Unique! Charming! Cool! Frenchie’s Café is one of those places you came to Key West to discover and enjoy!. Key West used to be filled with one-of-a-kind establishments, but over the years many of those unique, special places have sadly gone by the wayside. Enter Frenchie’s Café! Where do I start? Shall I tell you Read More...
Conversations Between a Psychiatrist and a Mystic
The psychiatrist, Jerry Weinstock, M.D., told me … He has lived, fished, dived and swam in and around Key West for decades. For a long time, he was Key West’s only psychiatrist. He had a full practice, no blank spots on his calendar. He probably treated every writer in Key West, when he was still Read More...
DEATH IN PARADISE: A YEAR LATER [CHARLES EIMERS MEMORIAL] NOWHERE TO RUN: NEW VIDEO DEVASTATING TO KWPD CREDIBILITY [CHIEF LEE DEPOSITION VIDEO] EIMERS IN-CUSTODY-DEATH UPDATE: MISSING VIDEO SURFACES KATHY SMITH, LEAD FDLE INVESTIGATOR IN CHARLES EIMERS CASE PUT ON ADMINITRATIVE LEAVE KWPD & FDLE, PARTNERS IN CRIME? CHARLES EIMERS UPDATE: Police, Death, and Missing Videotapes Read More...
NOWHERE TO RUN: NEW VIDEO DEVASTATING TO KWPD CREDIBILITY [CHIEF LEE DEPOSITION VIDEO] EIMERS IN-CUSTODY-DEATH UPDATE: MISSING VIDEO SURFACES KATHY SMITH, LEAD FDLE INVESTIGATOR IN CHARLES EIMERS CASE PUT ON ADMINITRATIVE LEAVE KWPD & FDLE, PARTNERS IN CRIME? CHARLES EIMERS UPDATE: Police, Death, and Missing Videotapes THE BURGLAR, THE VIGILANTE, AND THE AXE OF Read More...
If you are a longtime reader of Key West The Newspaper, you know that, after 18 years of publishing The Blue Paper, I retired last November. Since that time, I have been finishing up several personal projects– like sorting out 18 years of back issues to donate to the history department at the library. I Read More...
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FIRST CUBAN AMERICAN MUSEUM EXCHANGE IN OVER FIVE DECADES!
First Cuban American museum exchange in over five decades, featuring Mario Sanchez and an array of Cuba’s finest artists. This exhibition, comprised of 30 intaglios from private collections and Old Island Restoration Foundation, explores issues related to gender, racial and religious freedom brought by utopian Creole Cubans to Key West during their struggle for independence Read More...
Love Lane Gang Scores with Kids of all Ages at Saturday’s Sound Check
The Love Lane Gang, now a gang of four and quickly becoming a locals’ favorite, made their Green Parrot debut this past weekend, along with a bunch of friends. The music was pure child’s play and adult happiness as all ages kicked up their heels, enchanted by the upbeat friendly racket created by harmonica, guitar, Read More...
Former County Mayor Shirley Freeman Urges A “No” Vote on Study to Widen Channel
To the Editor: In case anyone is interested, here are some of the reasons I will vote NO on the study to widen the channel by dredging. We do not need a study to know that cruise ships are degrading the environment and character of Key West. Hordes of cruise ship passengers discourage higher income Read More...
Former County Mayor Shirley Freeman Urges A "No" Vote on Study to Widen Channel
To the Editor: In case anyone is interested, here are some of the reasons I will vote NO on the study to widen the channel by dredging. We do not need a study to know that cruise ships are degrading the environment and character of Key West. Hordes of cruise ship passengers discourage higher income Read More...
Anti Dredging Should Not Be Equated With Anti Cruise Ship
Editor: With the current debate over the ship channel widening feasibility leading up to the October referendum, I observe that the two sides in the debate are often at extremes with each other, and for a questionable reason. So often, in any forum, or in any conversation about the issue, it becomes not the widening Read More...
That Trailer Park Should Have Never Been Put Up For Sale
That trailer park [on Simonton Street] should have never been put up for sale. What happened to charity? So some of the folks were not paying rent any longer; it should have been charity, not for profit, in the first place. Shame on Peter Batty and the church to turn these people out, when it should Read More...
Wine Benefit at Salute For Buzzy Rossman: September 4th At Salute
The Community is Coming Together for a Benefit Including a Wine Tasting, Auction & Raffle on September 4th at Salute on the Beach Long time Key West resident and window washer (he’s the one with that crazy looking bike), Buzzy Rossman, recently suffered a stroke and had to be medivac’d up to Baptist Hospital in Read More...
Florida Keys Council of the Arts Cultural Calendar Thursday, November 6 thru Wednesday, November 12
Visit keysarts.com, Cultural Calendar for more listings and events throughout the Keys. Key West Happenings ARTISTS RECEPTIONS / EXHIBITIONS Thursday Polar Opposites Opening Reception, 6 PM Lucky Street Gallery, 540 Greene St. 294-3973. Luckystreetgallery.com James Barr-Nobles, B. Lucy Stevens. (more…)
Sponsors Sought For 4th Annual Summer Jam
Sponsors are sought for the 4th Annual Summer Jam, a family friendly island style concert-party held September 21 at Dante’s Key West Pool Bar & Restaurant/ Prime Steakhouse in Key West. To be a sponsor for this event that supports Wesley House Family Services and its crucial work on behalf of children and families in Read More...
Celebrity Gravity Pole Fitness Fundraiser For Florida Keys SPCA
Sponsors and silent auction items are sought for the September 26 Celebrity Gravity Pole Fitness fundraiser for the Florida Keys SPCA to be held at Le Te Da in Key West. Call Monica Matroci at 305-731-6898. For more information visit: www.gravitykeywest.com.
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