Issue #35 — Friday, November 8, 2013
BASE COMMANDERS CRIED FOUL! The Sale of Peary Court, A Look Behind the Scenes
Balfour Beatty, the giant military housing contractor, will soon play its last card in the game of not paying Monroe County $ 11.5 Million in back property taxes. On November 20th in Key West Balfour’s attorneys will try to convince Judge David Audlin that Florida and federal law exempt private military housing contractors from paying Read More...
TWENTY YEARS LATER: WAS HARRY POWELL RIGHT?
NOTE: For years, the large piece of undeveloped Navy property at White Street and Palm Avenue was used as a park by Key Westers. So when the Navy announced that the property, known as Peary Court, was to be developed for military housing, many locals protested. They argued that the Navy really didn’t need any Read More...
Simonton Street Trailer Park: A Unique Perspective
I am writing as I have a unique perspective on the Simonton Street trailer park. I have a masters degree and spent a 30 year career working with the homeless and the mentally ill for the state of South Carolina. I also lived at the trailer park for three 6 month periods with my wife, Read More...
We’re past Halloween, but judging by the on-going Obamacare fright-fest, you’d never know it. And it’s not only the standard Teapublican-beholden claptrap from Faux News. Catch CNN or other network coverage — even the late-night comedians – and you’d be hard-pressed not to conclude that Obamacare had become ObamaScare. So much so that all more 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...
BOOM OR BUST? New Event Proposed for Key West
City officials were surprised by the application from the International Noise Exposition Professional Team for Key West to become a stop on their international competitive noise circuit beginning in 2014. Planned for mid-March, 2014, the Key West Noise Exposition would bring competitors from around the world for a week long series of noise events. The Read More...
There has been a vast unexpected emotional reaction to comedian/actor Russell Brand’s interview-gone-viral with the BBC’s Jeremy Paxman. If you haven’t seen it, you must, if only to see how it makes you feel. Mr. Paxman fired a first salvo at Mr. Brand by asking why he deserved to be guest editor of the political Read More...
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Next Steps on Climate Change: Infrastructure Adaptation
Monroe County Commissioners will soon make some bell weather decisions that signal their approach to climate change. The County has joined compacts, attended conferences, hired sustainability coordinators, established committees, and developed plans which embark on the “process.” Eventually, the process moves from planning to action. Action includes mitigation (reducing the causes of climate change) and Read More...
KEY WEST'S RUSTY HODGDON JUST PUBLISHED HIS FOURTH NOVEL!
A monstrous storm forms in Burkina Faso in Africa as the Harmatten, the dry winds from the Sahara, collide with the heat of the savannah. The mass of disrupted air works its brief destruction there, then moves on to grow into a menacing, catastrophic hurricane near the Cape Verde Islands. Few escape its wrath, including Read More...
KEY WEST’S RUSTY HODGDON JUST PUBLISHED HIS FOURTH NOVEL!
A monstrous storm forms in Burkina Faso in Africa as the Harmatten, the dry winds from the Sahara, collide with the heat of the savannah. The mass of disrupted air works its brief destruction there, then moves on to grow into a menacing, catastrophic hurricane near the Cape Verde Islands. Few escape its wrath, including Read More...
Women’s Journal Writing Group Forming: 5-Week Session
Want to organize your jumbled thoughts? Is it time to figure out your feelings about your mother? Do you need a peaceful place to write your experiences and connections that have created your life thus far? The Journal Writing Group is a place where women can safely write down their lives, letting thoughts tumble out Read More...
The Love Lane Gang plays music that spans generations, as well as embodies them. The emphasis is on swing: classics from the 1930s and 1940s, done in a refreshing new style that incorporates the Hot Club approach with island flourishes. Dust Bowl ballads, old school country from Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, rockabilly and surf Read More...
Key West International Latin Arts Festival to Feature Music and Dance, Workshops, Poetry and Art
NOVEMBER 9TH AND 10TH Experience the2nd Annual Key West International Latin Arts Festival ¡Esperando Nacer! 2013, Saturday and Sunday, November 9 and 10, and become immersed in the soul, color and passion of traditional Latin American cultural arts. Produced and presented by ValnChz Productions, and sponsored in part by the Monroe County Tourist Development Council, 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…)
Montessori Children’s School 5K Run/Walk & Kids Fun Run on Sunday
Montessori Children’s School of Key West will host its first 5K run/walk on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013, at 8 a.m. The scenic measured course will begin and finish at Higgs Beach and run along the Atlantic Ocean. A half-mile kids “fun run” will follow at 9 a.m. Registration is $ 25 for adults and $ Read More...
Montessori Children’s School 5K Run/Walk & Kids Fun Run on Sunday
Montessori Children’s School of Key West will host its first 5K run/walk on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013, at 8 a.m. The scenic measured course will begin and finish at Higgs Beach and run along the Atlantic Ocean. A half-mile kids “fun run” will follow at 9 a.m. Registration is $ 25 for adults and $ Read More...
Call to Artists for the 2nd Annual Key West ChalkFest
The Key West Art in Public Places Board announces a call to artists for the 2nd Annual Key West ChalkFest, to take place November 21-24. Local and visiting artists will use the promenade alongside the seawall at the Truman Waterfront as their canvas for intricate and colorful chalk art creations. Adult and student categories; prizes. Read More...
Vendors Wanted for Holiday Bazaar at St. Peter’s Church
Vendors are wanted for St. Peter’s Episcopal Church’s First Annual Holiday Bazaar to be held at the Church on Saturday, November 30, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. We are looking for vendors to sell artisan, home-made seasonal and holiday arts and crafts, baked goods, stocking stuffer items, etc. Registration is $ 25.00/space. Registration forms Read More...
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