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Students do well overall on year-end state tests
Local public school students outperformed the state average in writing in fourth through 10th grades, according to recently released Florida state testing results. Monroe County School District Superintendent Theresa Axford said the district’s emphasis on Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) strategies, which focus on writing, propelled the students. This is the first time in several years that writing has been considered as a separate score, according to a school district news release. ...
Key Largo cactus goes extinct in U.S.
The Florida Keys has long been the frontline when it comes to the effects of climate change, and the chain of islands has had its first casualty in the war with sea-level rise. Monroe County sea-level rise projections estimate between 10 to 21 inches of rise by 2040, 21 to 54 inches by 2070 and 40 to 136 inches by 2120. However, the damage is already being felt in various areas of the Keys, whether it is humans, animals and now plants. ...
Florida Woman Arrested For Grocery Theft And Then Selling The Stolen Goods
A 53-year-old Florida woman, faces charges of larceny and dealing in stolen property after allegedly stealing over $1,500 worth of groceries from a Winn-Dixie on Big Pine Key. According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, Rebecca Lea Lunsford of Little Torch Key was caught on surveillance cameras leaving the store with unpaid groceries on two separate occasions in June.
Keys Locals Are Fuming About Gov. DeSantis' Lobster Mini-Season Bonus Day
Thanks to Gov. Ron DeSantis, Islamorada resident Alina Davis is bracing for hordes of fellow Floridians from north of Monroe County to commandeer the waters surrounding the upper Keys on Sunday, July 14, to pursue spiny lobsters, a clawless cousin of the more famous Maine lobster and a popular prey for the state's commercial fishermen and recreational boaters and divers.
7 PEOPLE SENT TO HOSPITALS AFTER SHOCKING LOWER KEYS BOAT CRASH
With two children and six adults on board, a large SeaHunter boat smashed into a Lower Keys bridge in the early morning hours of July 8. The crash injured at least seven of the eight people aboard. “The seven people who were hospitalized were six adults and one child,” county...
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