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2 days ago | 
keysweekly.com | Mandy Miles
Key West officials this week prioritized people over profit and working residents over unworkable rent hikes for tenants at City Marina on Garrison Bight. The city commission at their June 4 meeting shot down a proposal from the city’s port and marine services department that would have raised the rents for liveaboard residents at the marina by 50 to 70% and forced many of them from their homes.
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2 days ago | 
keysweekly.com | Mandy Miles
Key West High School’s Class of 2025 packed the bleachers at the new and improved Tommy Roberts Memorial Stadium for the May 30 graduation ceremony. The class finished eighth grade online in the throes of the COVID pandemic, then started high school in person but in still-uncertain times. On May 30, a sea of red and white mortar boards filled the air, as more than 200 graduating seniors celebrated the bittersweet end of their high school careers.
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2 days ago | 
keysweekly.com | Mandy Miles
With the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season in its first week, national news headlines have drawn attention to staffing cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which oversees the National Weather Service (NWS), an essential agency for hurricane forecasting and warning coordination.
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2 days ago | 
keysweekly.com | Mandy Miles
U.S. Navy Capt. Beth Regoli didn’t just finish her stint as commander of Naval Air Station Key West on May 30. She also completed her entire 26-year naval career. Capt. Colin Thompson took Regoli’s place at the helm of Key West’s naval operations at a change of command ceremony that also included the pageantry and patriotism of a naval officer’s retirement.
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4 days ago | 
keysweekly.com | Mandy Miles
City officials on Wednesday will consider a proposal that could more than double the slip rents for liveboard residents of City Marina on Garrison Bight and thus displace many longtime working and retired locals.
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5 days ago | 
keysweekly.com | Mandy Miles
I turned 49 a couple of weeks ago and it hit me. Good lord, I’m old. Not old, in the geriatric sense. I don’t have a weekly pill organizer or a calendar full of doctor appointments. And I still only have one cat. But I’m oldER than most people I now encounter. It was a bit jarring, to be honest. Someone mentions an event that happened in 2008, and that sounds reasonably recent to me. Then I stop to consider it, and realize 2008 was 17 freakin’ years ago. How did that happen?
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1 week ago | 
keysweekly.com | Mandy Miles
Eight months ago, Kentrell Freeman was arrested for bringing a baseball bat to his ex-girlfriend’s office and threatening to kill her, despite a domestic violence protective order barring him from the woman’s workplace. A coworker was able to lock the office door before Freeman entered with the bat, court documents state. Two days ago, on Wednesday, May 28, Freeman returned to the woman’s workplace, this time with a knife.
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1 week ago | 
keysweekly.com | Mandy Miles
The composition isn’t bad, but the lighting is terrible, meaning the color is also terrible. And there’s a power line going across the top quarter of the photo, some dead branches in the upper left corner, and you can’t see the expression on my wife’s face very well, or the fact that she’s holding a half-eaten Pop-Tart. Then there’s all that ugly water at the doorstep of our house. Still, it’s one of my favorite photographs from our marriage.
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1 week ago | 
keysweekly.com | Mandy Miles
For the fourth year in a row, the inimitable Miss Island Queen, an amateur drag pageant, sold out Key West Theater. The crowd that packed the house was as generous as it was enthusiastic, literally throwing money on the stage while laughing nonstop. The show featured six local contestants with no drag experience, each paired with a professional drag queen coach.
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1 week ago | 
keysweekly.com | Mandy Miles
As of July 1, Florida will ban what has been considered one of the greatest public health successes of the 20th century — adding fluoride to drinking water. On May 15, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law the Florida Farm Bill, which, among other things, removed fluoride from the state’s list of approved water additives.
