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Ernest Hemingway fans celebrate the author's 125th birthday in his beloved Key West
Read full article: Ernest Hemingway fans celebrate the author's 125th birthday in his beloved Key WestErnest Hemingway spent the 1930s in Key West, Florida, and more than six decades after his death, fans, scholars and relatives continue to congregate on the island city to celebrate the authorโs award-winning novels and adventure-filled life.
Diana Nyad marks anniversary of epic Cuba-Florida swim, freeing rehabilitated sea turtle in the Keys
Read full article: Diana Nyad marks anniversary of epic Cuba-Florida swim, freeing rehabilitated sea turtle in the KeysA decade after swimming nonstop for more than two straight days from Cuba to Florida, Diana Nyad has returned to the Key West beach where she completed her epic journey.
For at least a day, all the world is 'Margaritaville' in homage to Jimmy Buffett
Read full article: For at least a day, all the world is 'Margaritaville' in homage to Jimmy BuffettFrom Key West, Florida, and beyond, the world became an extension of Jimmy Buffett's musical kingdom of โMargaritaville.โ.
Atlantic hurricane season ends with averge number of storms
Read full article: Atlantic hurricane season ends with averge number of stormsAn Atlantic hurricane season with 14 named storms has ended, leaving residents in the Florida Keys to celebrate even as others around Florida and Puerto Rico continue to deal with the damage caused by Hurricanes Ian, Nicole and Fiona.
Key West honors Queen Elizabeth at Southernmost Point marker
Read full article: Key West honors Queen Elizabeth at Southernmost Point markerThe Southernmost Point marker in Key West, Florida, a landmark delineating the continental United Statesโ southernmost spot of land, became a memorial to Queen Elizabeth II when city workers installed a British flag and royal purple banner at the much-photographed site beside the Atlantic Ocean.
Sailfish leaps out of water, injures woman off Florida coast
Read full article: Sailfish leaps out of water, injures woman off Florida coastA 70-year-old woman was stabbed by the bill of a 100-pound sailfish that leapt out of the water and attacked her as her companions were trying to reel it in on a boat near the Florida coast, authorities said.
Key West wants to ban people from feeding roaming chickens
Read full article: Key West wants to ban people from feeding roaming chickensThis Sept. 13, 2017 photo shows chickens in Key West, Fla. Key West is considering a law that would make it illegal to feed the chickens that freely roam the Southernmost City. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)Feral chickens run free in Key West, just one of those things that keep the Southernmost City charmingly weird. Itโs a heated thing on both sides.โThe city's wild chickens donโt need help finding food, Tom Sweets, executive director of the Key West Wildlife Center, told the newspaper. โIโve never seen a skinny chicken in Key West unless itโs sick or injured. Theyโre quite capable of taking care of themselves.โThe wildlife center says it doesn't remove healthy Key West Chickens, but it did take in about 1,500 injured, sick, and orphaned chickens last year.
A sign of spring? Birds seen migrating north on radar
Read full article: A sign of spring? Birds seen migrating north on radarKEY WEST, Fl. The National Weather Service in Key West tweeted that birds migrating north were detected on radar. ๐ก Key West radar has had a busy night, but not because of weather! Spring leaves arriving early - southeast USEven here at home, you can see that some places are seeing spring leaves roughly three weeks early. Spring leaves - southwest and central Virginia