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The Community Foundation of the Florida Keys is awarding grants totaling $215,266 to 35 local nonprofits for community collaborative projects that will directly benefit residents from Key Largo to Key West.
Due to the generosity of donors and fund holders, the foundation has increased the amount of funding and number of projects supported from previous years through its annual grant program.
More than a third of the recipients are new to the annual grant program this year.
The 2021 âMoving Forward, Better Togetherâ grants program is intended to help communities move forward from the pandemic, support local nonprofits and serve residents. The grants, ranging from $2,000 to $10,000 each, provide support in areas including health and human services, arts, education, environment and more.
Cheers: To the return of the magnificent fireworks display on the Fourth of July at Higgs Beach. After being canceled last year because of COVD-19 precautions, it was a pleasure to be able to watch the show in person, as well as being able to take in the celebration from almost any location on the island.
Jeers: To Tropical Storm Elsa, whose driving rains and near-hurricane force winds made a mess of Key West. However, weâre glad to have been spared a direct hit, as the storm shifted late to the west, and most residents used this as a test run for the remainder of the season, so there was a silver lining.
On the upstairs floor of the Keys History and Discovery Center in Islamorada is a room available by appointment only to scholars and researchers. The items that occupy the Jerry Wilkinson Research Library vary widely, from cannonballs and ballast stones found in centuries-old shipwrecks to blueprints of the original Overseas Highway.
The nonprofit museumâs curator, Brad Bertelli, a local author and historian, has amassed this collection of items over years of donations and searching through the basements of local collectors and other history buffs. Other items in the museumâs library are archives of the Keynoter and Reporter newspapers, which ceased printing several years ago, dating back to the 1960s; issues of the now-defunct Florida Keys magazine from the 1990s, donated by a former resident now living in Pennsylvania, a manatee rib that dates back a few million years and an enrollment card to Cornell University from spring of 1896 for William Krome, an influential engin
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers charged a Miami man with various lobster fishery violations after he was caught with lobsters and a spearing device on Sunday.
FWC investigators Chris Mattson and Billy Thompson were in plain clothes and on an unmarked vessel when they noticed Armando Ludena Espinosa, of Miami, in the water bayside of Robbieâs Marina in Islamorada. They noticed another individual bring him a gig stick and he began to dive under the water. After about 45 minutes of surveillance, they saw him throw a spiny lobster head. They eventually approached Espinosa and caught him with an undersized, wrung spiny lobster tail in his pocket, FWC spokesman Bobby Dube said.