Paul Castronovo, right, and Greg Lemega, executive producer of Castronovo's radio show, 'The Paul and Young Ron Show,' discuss Lemega's family woes during a recent morning broadcast. (Photo by David Goodhue)
To the listener, it sounds like Greg Lemega, aka “Toast,” the executive producer of the popular “Paul and Young Ron” morning radio show, will probably be in trouble with his wife when he gets home from work.
Posted: Friday, September 03, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
Upper Keys Rotary President Candi Graves, Brazilian exchange student Pedro Mota, 17, and Denise Nedimyer, hold a banner that reads ‘Welcome to the USA Pedro.’ Mota will spend the school year at Coral Shores High School, Nedimyer’s 16-year-old daughter, Julia, is also an exchange student, spending the school year in Germany. (Contributed photo)
An exchange student from Brazil is attending and will graduate next spring from Coral Shores High School.
Posted: Friday, September 03, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
Diana Nyad practices her swim from Havana to Key West in Key West.
More than 30 years after unsuccessfully attempting to swim about 100 miles from Cuba to Key West, 61-year-old Diana Nyad is getting ready to try it again.
Posted: Thursday, September 02, 2010 03:12 PM EDT
Orthopedic surgeon Robert Loeffler, on staff at Lower Keys Medical Center on Stock Island, is offering something not many doctors do: Free surgery.
Posted: Sunday, August 29, 2010 11:30 AM EDT
Take Stock in Children, a statewide mentoring and scholarship program that has been a huge success in the Keys, is getting a huge boost with a federal grant.
Posted: Sunday, August 29, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
For the past year, the Grace Jones Day Care Center in Marathon has been addressing nutritional deficiencies faced in some Middle Keys kids through its Back Packs 4 Key Kids program.
Posted - Sunday, August 29, 2010 09:00 AM EDT
Local groups and businesses say they collected about $6,000 worth of school supplies for underprivileged Keys students, exceeding their goal.
Posted - Friday, August 27, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
When Melanie Snell’s 14-year-old son Guy was in his formative years, she decided video games and other electronic devices were not an acceptable way for him to pass his time.
Posted - Friday, August 27, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
Pelicans can live a long time, and they get to do it in the Keys.
So, this is it... I’m moving into the next half of a century but I’m obviously among good company. Who wouldn’t want to be a manatee or a pelican? It’s better than being an insignificant guppy or a gnat with limited life spans. Right? Did you know that another one of our local residents, the turkey buzzard, can live up to 118 years? Sure, they aren’t too pretty, but I’ll bet they could care less.
Posted - Friday, August 27, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
This is the Hurricane Monument, formally known as the Florida Keys Memorial.
The Matecumbe Historical Trust has planned several events commemorating the 75th anniversary of the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, which killed more than 400 people in the Upper Keys.
On Aug. 30, trust historian Irving Eyster will give a lecture at Island Community Church, mile marker 83, at 6:30 p.m. It'll be a PowerPoint presentation about past Keys hurricanes, starting with the 1733 hurricane that sunk a fleet of ships and leading up to the 1935 hurricane and Hurricane Donna in 1960.
Posted - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
