Big Pine Key News

To All: Just posted a few " warming up " photos from Key West. Hope to head up to the 2010 WSP tomorrow night.

The angling challenge is set for Friday through Sunday, Feb. 19-21. Registered anglers are eligible to win a $15,000 cash prize for weighing in the largest kingfish over 55 pounds.

A A Let the Games begin Vancouver is all set to host the 2010 Winter Olympics, and visitors to the city will have a wealth of options to keep them busy.

Hundreds of people lined up outside Key West High School before 9 a.m. one recent Saturday for a health fair.

Florida Keys residents who no longer want their exotic pets may give them to the authorities on Feb.

Two 17-year-old boys who ran away from a juvenile diversion program being held at a campground were caught fleeing the Florida Keys in an unlikely getaway vehicle: a firetruck.

The American Red Cross is accepting cash donations only. Other efforts are accepting cash and care-package items such as: calling cards, towels, blankets, batteries, hand tools, toiletries, medical supplies, candles, flashlights, lanterns, clothes, diapers, socks, flip-flops, cereal, soda, bottled water, canned and dry food, baby food, powdered ...

Florida Keys birds may be feeling a secondary effect of the frigid January cold that killed millions of fish in Florida waters.The Florida Keys Wildlife Rescue group of Big Pine Key reports that a significant number of pelicans and other seabirds have died or fallen ill since the cold snap.On Thursday, five sickly pelicans were taken in by ...

To let game-fish populations recover from this month's deadly cold snap, all harvests of snook, bonefish and tarpon have been temporarily banned.A regular closed season on snook that runs through February will be extended until Sept.

The Monroe County Emergency Management announced locations for Keys citizens to drop off goods for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.Recommended items include cereals, bottled water, canned juice, soda, powdered milk, dry food, canned baby food, clothes, blankets, towels, socks, candles, flashlights, batteries, aspirin, bandages, gauze, ...

Run for your life or someone else's at a 3.1-mile run benefiting the Domestic Abuse Shelter of the Florida Keys.

Publicity Release for insertion as soon as possible. ______________________________________________________ The first meeting of 2010 for the Lower Keys Artists Network will be held Monday, January 4th, 7 PM, at The Artists in Paradise Gallery, "Recycle, Redesign and Reinvent your art with Collage" Big Pine Key artist Connie Hauk will demonstrate ...

''How are u? When are u coming home?'' ``I'm OK! Soon! Miss u! Love u!'' Sad to say, lame text messages have replaced heart-to-heart chats for my college-age daughter and me.

The old-fashioned water cooler with its huge heavy blue bottle is going the way of the dodo, and the folks at Island Water on Big Pine Key are helping it along.Bottleless water coolers are turning up in more and more businesses, and James Margolles, owner of Island Water, says that it not only benefits the environment, but business owners are ...

SANTA'S FLIGHT PATH CHRISTMAS EVE!!! KEY WEST WEOW 92.7's Rude Girl has gotten advance notice that Santa Claus will once again be dropping down over the Florida Keys to check some flight information on his way to see children in South America on Christmas Eve! Island City Flying Service once again graciously agreed to help Santa with their radar ...

The No Name Pub calls itself the cool and breezy local bar in the woods and they certainly are.

Discussion of climate change - and what to do about it - is gaining urgency. It's being debated in Congress and is the focus of December's international summit in Copenhagen.

A 37-year-old man was struck and killed while trying to cross U.S. 1 Tuesday night, the second pedestrian to die after being hit on the highway this week.

A construction worker who robbed a Key West credit union while on his lunch break in March 2008 was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison, but will get credit for the 21 months he already has spent in the Monroe County Detention Center on Stock Island.

Everyone loves a beautiful figure and no automobile comes closer to sleek and sexy than the Corvette.