TAVERNIER — As the sound of carillon bells echoed out onto the Old Highway on a peaceful Sunday morning, a procession of ministers and church council members walked solemnly down the aisle of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Tavernier on their way to installing Rev. Donald Stier as the church’s pastor.
Posted - Friday, October 30, 2009 10:49 AM EDT
ISLAMORADA — Founders Park is bustling nearly every night with some sort of activity, whether soccer leagues or baseball practice or competitions at the skate park.
Posted - Friday, October 30, 2009 09:46 AM EDT
At the Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center in Tavernier, last summer was the toughest for funding in nearly 20 years, and operators say the center, which cares for sick and injured birds, may close if money doesn’t start flowing in soon.
Posted - Friday, October 30, 2009 09:37 AM EDT
A unique Keys pleasure craft — a pontoon boat with a camper, thatched hut and a recliner onboard. Scary?
Who needs to go to a haunted house when you’ve got scary boats right in your backyard?
Posted - Friday, October 23, 2009 09:42 AM EDT
Montessori Children's School student Ella Baxter is lost in a sea of pumpkins at the Southernmost Pumpkin Patch.
Whether young, old or somewhere in between, the Halloween season means parties, haunted locales and more. Following is what's planned for the Keys.
Posted - Thursday, October 22, 2009 01:52 PM EDT
John Rudolph tickles the ivories on his donated piano. That's not just a cliche -- the instrument has real ivory keys.
John Rudolph was shocked to learn that Marathon High School's state-of-the-art auditorium was without a house piano -- so he decided to donate one.
Posted - Wednesday, October 21, 2009 11:00 AM EDT
Greek Isle Grille owners Freda and Bill Ferns sit at a table in their new restaurant.
A longtime Upper Keys restaurant owner has opened a Greek eatery in the Pink Plaza Shopping Center in Key Largo.
Posted - Friday, October 16, 2009 10:45 AM EDT
In his 1972 biography of Ernest Hemingway, James McLendon talks of Key West as the place where Hemingway became Hemingway. It was here that he came to love the sea, where he wrote most of “A Farewell to Arms,” and where he began to gather up the inspiration for what would become his most famous work, “The Old Man and the Sea,” a simply-told and tragic story of a fisherman’s battle with a giant marlin.
Posted - Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:07 AM EDT
