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16 hours ago | 
wusf.org | Helen Acevedo
Monroe County's artificial reef grant program is making good on its objective with the completion of its first reef. The powerpole artificial reef project started last year. At this site, just 10 miles offshore Key West, 45 concrete utility poles are stacked in layers to create habitat spaces. It's part of a network of reefs planned for the area.
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19 hours ago | 
wlrn.org | Helen Acevedo
Monroe County’s artificial reef grant program is making good on its objective with the completion of its first reef. The powerpole artificial reef project started last year. At this site, just 10 miles offshore Key West, 45 concrete utility poles are stacked in layers to create habitat spaces. It’s part of a network of reefs planned for the area.
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2 days ago | 
wlrn.org | Helen Acevedo |Sherrilyn Cabrera |Alyssa Ramos |Natu Tweh
Kristina Boswell is a seafaring musician, with a voyager's soul. She lives at sea in the Keys, currently floating around the waters of Marathon. On her sailboat, she makes music as a solo artist under the stage name K Boswell. A West Palm Beach native, she moved around with her family while growing up. At one point, they lived in Iowa for some time. She also spent time in Orlando, playing in the music scene there before moving to Austin, Texas, where she lived for 15 years.
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2 days ago | 
wusf.org | Helen Acevedo
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will no longer track costs associated with damage from weather and climate disasters. It's the latest move from the Trump Administration to strike references to climate change from federal documents and resources. Scientists said floods, heatwaves, hurricanes and wildfires are worsening due to climate change. According to NOAA, last year's hurricane season resulted in more than $30 billion in Florida alone.
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6 days ago | 
wlrn.org | Helen Acevedo
The College of Cardinals has elected an American pope — a historic first in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year history. Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, most recently led the Vatican’s powerful Office of Bishops in Rome. Speaking Thursday just after the iconic white smoke emerged above the Sistine Chapel, Miami's Archbishop Thomas Wenski expressed his support of the 69-year-old pontiff — and his hope that he would make a papal visit to South Florida.
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1 week ago | 
wlrn.org | Helen Acevedo
NASCAR’s championship weekend is coming back to South Florida next year. In a statement this week, NASCAR announced its three series races will take place in November 2026, at the Homestead-Miami Speedway track. It’ll be the first time since 2019 the title winners are crowned at the South Florida speedway. But, it isn’t a permanent return. NASCAR will be rotating championship weekend events across marquee venues and key markets in coming years.
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1 week ago | 
wlrn.org | Helen Acevedo |Sherrilyn Cabrera |Alyssa Ramos |Natu Tweh
In the second grade, Malcolm McNeish picked up the violin at Bethune Elementary School in Hollywood for the chance to go on field trips to Disney World and Busch Gardens. His brother Umoja saw him playing the instrument at home and thought it would be cool if they played together. More than 20 years later they are still playing the violin together — as Sons of Mystro. But their sound has come a long way.
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1 week ago | 
communitynewspapers.com | Helen Acevedo
NASCAR’s championship weekend is coming back to South Florida next year. In a statement this week, NASCAR announced its three series races will take place in November 2026, at the Homestead-Miami Speedway track. It’ll be the first time since 2019 the title winners are crowned at the South Florida speedway. But, it isn’t a permanent return. NASCAR will be rotating championship weekend events across marquee venues and key markets in coming years.
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1 week ago | 
wlrn.org | Helen Acevedo
The Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix takes place this weekend, which also means the highest class of international racing might cause a bit of a delay on your commute. On the Florida Turnpike, the northbound and southbound exit ramps to Northwest 199th Street and the northbound and southbound entrance ramps from Hard Rock Stadium, will be closed through Sunday.
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1 week ago | 
wlrn.org | Helen Acevedo
A new exhibit commemorating the historic Stonewall Inn is coming to Key West this week. The Key West Art and Historical Society is taking visitors back to June 1969. The exhibit immerses you in the gritty New York City dive ahead of the riots, widely credited as sparking the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. The exhibit is on temporary loan from the Stonewall National Museum Archives and Library through July 5 at the Key West Museum of Art and History. For more information, visit KWAHS.org.
