Marathon News

A contract given out by the city to install pilings for new dinghy docks is coming under scrutiny from the Florida Keys Contractors' Association.

The skies over Marathon will be filled with parachutes this weekend. Around 100 skydivers from the group Skydive Sebastian will be setting up shop at the Florida Keys Marathon Airport, and will be... For the complete article, please pick up a copy of The Citizen or purchase today's electronic edition at http://secure.floridakeys.com/keysnews/enews ...

Tampa Police say one person was shot Wednesday night at a Marathon gas station at 50th St.

St. Augustine -- The Old City will be aglow during the 16th Annual Nights of Lights Festival and Celebration from Nov.

"Pig Roast Benefit for a Plumb Good Time" Sat. Nov. 7th 2pm till ? ? @ Sombrero Resort Tiki Music will be from MANY local musicians, food and the fixins' games and fun.

MARATHON, Fla. -- In response to the 45-foot lobster boat Maite that ran aground Monday, a coordinated effort by the Coast Guard, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and Bahia Honda State Park is underway to remove the on-board petroleum products, minimize damage to the environment, and salvage the vessel.

Interim City Manager Peter Rosasco will look at something old and something new as he prepares the Marathon City Council to pick a new full-time city manager.

Although the City of Marathon contracts with the large Miami-based law firm Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff Sitterson, P.A., to handle its legal services, over the last three years there has been one face the council has typically seen handling its day-to-day business.

Two African tortoises and their owners, dressed as members of the fictional "Addams Family," won a top prize in a pet masquerade in the Florida Keys.

Staff at The Turtle Hospital in Marathon usually don't have to venture very far to discharge patients, but this week they went the extra miles, so to speak, to return a hawksbill named Sandy to its home waters in the Virgin Islands.

In this photo released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Ryan Butts, left, and Richie Moretti of The Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Fla., measure "Sandy," a female hawksbill turtle, Monday, Oct.

A tripped breaker in Marathon probably due to weather spurred a power outage at 6:30 p.m. from Big Pine Key to Key West, Keys Energy Services spokesman Julio Barroso said.

An 11-year-old Marathon boy is being charged with chasing and stabbing two classmates with a hypodermic needle at his school, authorities said.

Suspended Marathon City Manager Clyde Burnett was busy characterizing the central event in harassment allegations against him as a "practical joke" in an e-mail Monday morning as council members were being brought up to speed by city legal staff.

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An 11-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed two other students with a used hypodermic needle last week at Marathon's Stanley Switlik Elementary School was arrested Wednesday.

The Florida Keys Wild Bird Center has saved countless injured birds from certain death.

An owner of one of the two pit bull terriers that mauled to death a miniature schnauzer last month was fined a total of $500 for not having his dog on a leash and for the dog biting another animal.Jonathan Kuperus told Monroe County Judge W. Reagan Ptomey at an Oct.

Share + Oct 16, 2009 1:56 pm US/Eastern KEY LARGO The Florida Keys Overseas Highway, from just north of Key Largo to Key West, is now an All-American Road.

Marathon resident Rupert Staudner found himself with a new career after a state law requiring safety training to earn a motorcycle endorsement was passed last year.