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Key West Island News connects residents and friends of the island; fosters our One Human Family culture; and advances understanding of shared goals for our island community
7 ways to move here
Why would you leave?
North to Miami? Nope
Key West holidays | Best ways to celebrate December on the island
I'm taking a page from my dad's December rule book: Starting on Dec. 1, which is his birthday, he declared the twelfth month his personal holiday. Sing off-key that earwig of a birthday song every day? Sure. Why not? Take a break from the grinding chaos of daily...
Linda Grist Cunningham is editor and proprietor of Key West Island News. She lives on the island with Ranger Ed and the Cat 5s.
Living in Key West | How hard can it be?
Heck, you’ve vacationed in Key West for years. You know all about the island mystique — and on an island you don’t even have grass to mow. So, let’s find out if you’ve got what it takes to live here.
It’s hurricane season
The official hurricane season is June 1-November 31, which is pretty much the whole year, because we prep in May and hope to heaven there are no late storms in December. No local ever takes hurricane season lightly, especially if we’ve weathered an earlier one.
Hidden charms & secrets
Lizards. Iguanas. Roaches. Floods. Heat wave alerts. Hurricanes. Power outages. Crashing cell service. No water. No parking. Traffic headaches. Neighbors so close you hear their toliets flush. It’ll make you crazy. And, yet we can’t imagine living anywhere else.
Homeowner tips
Wow. You own (or rent) your personal piece of paradise. So how come you’ve got bugs, mold and mildew? How come the like-new air conditioning needs to be replaced? Home repairs and maintenance in a sub-tropical environment are not for the faint of heart.
Hurricane evacuation | Realistically, getting out ahead of a Cat 3 is not easy to do
Can we agree on one thing about hurricane evacuation? Can we put aside our fascination with minutiae and our escalating outrage with over-development, failing infrastructure and political partisanship, and agree on this: Monroe County, Key West and the other Keys municipalities must speak with one...
Traffic in the Keys | Decades in the making, welcome to gridlock
And, just like that, traffic in and around the Triangle came to a halt on Nov. 14. Why? Well, we're beautifying the entrance to the island, which will be nice to look at while sitting in the twice-a-day, locals-special rush hour that brings traffic to gridlock from, say, 7:30-9:30 a.m. and again...
The TDC audit | Good intentions go sideways in the Keys
The shocking Monroe County audit of its Tourist Development Council dropped publicly Nov. 1, just days after Fantasy Fest ended its 2023 run and one day after the death of the TDC's longtime director, Harold Wheeler, who retired in September 2017. The 32-page audit report called for by Monroe...
About KWIN
Key West Island News
Who we are: We are a Key West-owned digital news and information company that uses a community-support model to sustain our news, information and connections mission. Our funding comes from our local and off-island subscribers, select advertisers and investors. We are governed by an advisory board comprising residents and journalism and community-building professionals. Editor and publisher Linda Grist Cunningham owns KeyWestWatch Media LLC, which publishes Key West Island News.
What we do: We do original reporting and aggregate information from trusted news sources in Key West, the Keys and the state of Florida. We choose our trusted sources carefully to ensure accuracy and useful information.
Why we do it: We believe Key West needs a comprehensive, trusted source of news and information — a single place where residents and friends of Key West can find what they need to know each day.
What’s important to us: The topics shape our coverage: The Key West mystique; economic development; environmental protection; not-for-profits, arts and entertainment; small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Martha Hubbard
“Key West is an amazing canvas”
Key West chef and photographer Martha Hubbard walks the island each morning. For years she has shared with her social media friends a photo or two to start the day. Now she shares her photographs exclusively with Key West Island News. From pounding waves off the White Street pier to a Royal Poinciana bursting red, Martha’s photos are a stunning reminder that we live in a canvas made new every day.
Shade Ceramics and Shutter Photography
Contemporary artisan ceramics and photographs crafted in Key West | Follow the latest news from our gallery! We love sharing what we’re doing in the White Street gallery — and we welcome you to stop in when you’re in the neighborhood.
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FIERY CRASH KILLS TRUCK DRIVER ON US 1, SHUTS DOWN HIGHWAY FOR HOURS
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A fatal crash on U.S. 1 early Tuesday morning involving a semi-trailer truck shut down the highway for hours as first responders attended to the crash scene at mile marker 21 outside the Monroe County...5 CommentsComment on Facebook
I feel so bad for the driver and the family. Those concrete barriers are SO dangerous
They should be
so sad 💔 wee.so/joi74
So very sorry 😢
I sure hope so! And I hope they get around to that stop light installation at College Rd before another death there too.
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