Marathon News

Key LargoThe 34th annual Fourth of July parade sponsored by the Reporter start at 10 a.m. at Anthony's and proceeds north to mile marker 100.

The bad news for taxpayers and local governments became official Wednesday -- confirmation of the county's sagging property values.

Vox Communications, owner of US 1 Radio and Conch Country, is selling its Marathon radio station - 97.7 Wave FM - purchased in 2003 for $540,000.The station plays rock favorites and new rock - what's called in the world of radio a "Hot Adult Contemporary" format.

Middle Keys youngsters braved the elements on June 24 for the four annual Cities of Key Colony Beach and Marathon Kids Fishing Derby."It was a little wet, cold and rainy, but the kids, the minute we stopped, were grabbing poles and ready to go.

A study of where a portion of the Old Seven Mile Bridge was sunk as an artificial reef in the 1980s may help the state in its effort to do the same with the Boot Key Bridge draw span in Marathon.

Recycling, or the Florida Keys' lack of it, has been a sticky wicket in recent years.

Picking a spot to build a sewer plant is typically an unpopular decision. Such is the problem for the City of Marathon, which has to build seven of the facilities scattered throughout town to serve as the backbone for its central sewer system.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is expected to shutter its Key West office today, as state budget cuts are forcing agents to share space at the Florida Highway Patrol office in Marathon.

Replacing the defunct waste-to-energy plant on Stock Island with a new transportation facility may not be in the cards for the city of Key West.

Florida Keys voters soon may be asked whether to implement a 1-cent sales tax increase to raise about $25 million annually for wastewater upgrades.

The Monroe County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that a young girl treated last week at Fishermen's Hospital in Marathon was treated for swine flu - the Keys' first case of the illness.Health Department Director Robert Eadie says the girl was admitted to Fishermen's late last week exhibiting common influenza-like symptoms.

The Marathon City Council wants to hear straight from the source why a dangerous intersection at U.S. 1 and Aviation Boulevard doesn't qualify for a traffic light.

A fire broke out at the Maytag Laundromat in Marathon early Thursday morning. The fire appeared to be contained to the back of the building, leaving most of the washing and drying machines in the front of the shop in somewhat better shape.

Jun 18, 2009 2:15 pm US/Eastern MARATHON The first case of the so-called Swine Flu has been confirmed in the Florida Keys.

Unlike the mock celebrations of the Keys' faux-independence , celebrating the Fourth of July is the real deal, and Keys residents like to show their colors and celebrate the nation's Independence Day.Lots of events are planned to keep locals and tourists entertained this year, when July Fourth falls on a Saturday.Blackwater Sound, fitting its name, ...

When Cindy Wilkinson faced her first classroom of special-education students in 1974 at Stanley Switlik Elementary School in Marathon, President Gerald Ford had just pardoned Richard Nixon, a charming killer named Ted Bundy was on the loose and the Edmund Fitzgerald was still a Great Lakes freighter, not a tragic song.

More red tape and project delays would result if Monroe County let Marathon review airport planning proposals and then appeal disputes to a state or federal agency, county staff said in recommending against it.

Turtle Hospital officials are planning quite the going-away blowout for one loggerhead turtle that swam up to the docks behind the Marathon-based facility in late March.

What difference can a couple of weeks make? The City of Marathon is about to find out, as the next two weeks will determine if its quest to acquire a piece of land needed for a sewer plant will be completed the easy or hard way.

This year marks the 30th year the Ballato family has been in the truck accessory business and the ninth year they've been in business in the Keys.Mike Ballato, along with his father, Victor, opened Key Truck Accessories in Marathon in 2000.