Big Pine Key News

This summer the sun-soaked, off-the-beaten-track mecca for fun-loving sybarites and party animals will once again host the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival Reefality Show where divers and snorkelers portray reefality show personalities.

It's a pristine spring morning on the remote tip of Big Pine Key, 30 miles north of Key West.

Clerk of the Courts candidate Kevin Madok hosts his Key West kickoff party from 5 to 7 tonight at the New York Pasta Garden, in Duval Square, 1075 Duval St.

It didn't take long for Monroe County to react to the Utility Board of Key West's Wednesday approval of two contracts to run commercial power lines to No Name Key by summer's end.On May 16, Chief Assistant County Attorney Bob Shillinger will ask the County Commission, meeting in Key Largo, to sue Lower Keys utility Keys Energy Services in an effort ... (more)

Proponents of commercial electricity could win a huge victory this summer in the decades-long battle over such power on No Name Key.