Marathon News

It was perhaps fitting that a group of Marathon officials were in Tallahassee this week updating the governor's cabinet on the city's progress in a variety of key areas.

Local officials in Marathon were pleased with their annual trip to the state's capital this week.

Local law enforcement agencies are collecting unwrapped holiday toys and monetary donations for needy children and seeking needy families who want a visit from Santa.

Dr. Sharon Ward has diagnosed a half-dozen women in the past five years with breast cancer.

A dirty problem is developing in Marathon. In the midst of installing a central sewer system, contracting crews all over town have been digging in the city's streets to make room for sewer pipes.

Aside from the armed guard and government notices, it appeared to be business as usual Saturday at the former Orion Bank in Key West, seized a day before by federal regulators.

KEY LARGO: The northbound lanes of U.S. 1 on Jewfish Creek Bridge will be closed from 6:30 to 10:30 a.m. today for the Jewfish Creek Bridge Half Marathon and 5K Run/Walk Run.

A Florida Keys delegation is lobbying the University of Miami Hospital system to take over Fishermen's Hospital, a move one county commissioner said could save the county from taxing residents to subsidize the private facility.

Move over Wyland -- the subjects of your life's work are picking up the brush, too.

A former nursing home employee accused in civil court of misappropriating more than $150,000 from a resident of Plantation Key Convalescent Center is scheduled to be sentenced for contempt this Friday at the Monroe County courthouse in Key West.

A contract given out by the city to install pilings for new dinghy docks is coming under scrutiny from the Florida Keys Contractors' Association.

The skies over Marathon will be filled with parachutes this weekend. Around 100 skydivers from the group Skydive Sebastian will be setting up shop at the Florida Keys Marathon Airport, and will be... For the complete article, please pick up a copy of The Citizen or purchase today's electronic edition at http://secure.floridakeys.com/keysnews/enews ...

Tampa Police say one person was shot Wednesday night at a Marathon gas station at 50th St.

St. Augustine -- The Old City will be aglow during the 16th Annual Nights of Lights Festival and Celebration from Nov.

"Pig Roast Benefit for a Plumb Good Time" Sat. Nov. 7th 2pm till ? ? @ Sombrero Resort Tiki Music will be from MANY local musicians, food and the fixins' games and fun.

MARATHON, Fla. -- In response to the 45-foot lobster boat Maite that ran aground Monday, a coordinated effort by the Coast Guard, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and Bahia Honda State Park is underway to remove the on-board petroleum products, minimize damage to the environment, and salvage the vessel.

Interim City Manager Peter Rosasco will look at something old and something new as he prepares the Marathon City Council to pick a new full-time city manager.

Although the City of Marathon contracts with the large Miami-based law firm Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff Sitterson, P.A., to handle its legal services, over the last three years there has been one face the council has typically seen handling its day-to-day business.

Two African tortoises and their owners, dressed as members of the fictional "Addams Family," won a top prize in a pet masquerade in the Florida Keys.

Staff at The Turtle Hospital in Marathon usually don't have to venture very far to discharge patients, but this week they went the extra miles, so to speak, to return a hawksbill named Sandy to its home waters in the Virgin Islands.