The sheriff of the Florida Keys spent part of Sunday tamping down speculation tied to online reports claiming Cuba may have taken military action involving drones near the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 is one of the worst natural disasters in the country’s history. In Islamorada, just east of U.S. 1 at mile marker 82, the Florida Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a monument to the disaster.
Key West police have obtained warrants for two miscreants they say set fire to a Christmas tree at the Southernmost Point Buoy, damaging the venerable landmark.