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KEY WEST, Florida Keys — Veteran sailboat racing teams from around the world are to compete in the waters off America’s southernmost city during Quantum Key West 2012, scheduled Sunday through Friday, Jan. 15-20.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2012, the Key West event is one of the most prestigious sailing regattas on the international calendar. [...]
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MARATHON, Florida Keys — Pigeon Key, one of the Florida Keys’ hidden gems, lies nestled beneath the Old Seven Mile Bridge and provides a window on life in the Keys a century ago. The tiny island is to take center stage during January’s Keyswide celebration honoring the centennial of the Florida Keys Over-Sea Railroad, lauded [...]
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MARATHON, Florida Keys — Singers, dancers and musicians are gearing up for a busy 2012 season of adventure, drama, skits and music at the Marathon Community Theater, located at 5101 Overseas Highway.
The 2012 slate of shows opens with “Dixie Swim Club,” running Jan. 5-28 and written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten. The [...]
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KEY WEST, Florida Keys — Frost-free Key West isn’t a winter wonderland during the holiday season, but it may become a “wiener wonderland” when about 200 dachshunds and their owners take a New Year’s Eve stroll through the island’s picturesque downtown.
The seventh annual Key West Dachshund Walk, set for noon Saturday, Dec. 31, provides an [...]
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KEY LARGO, Florida Keys — Some of the nation’s finest collegiate swimmers and potential Olympians are to vie for honors at the annual Orange Bowl Swimming Classic, set for Tuesday, Jan. 3, at the Jacobs Aquatic Center, mile marker 99.6 oceanside in Key Largo.
The classic is an integral part of a monthlong Orange Bowl training [...]
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KEY WEST, Florida Keys — The historic Old Town and waterfront districts are to become a scenic racecourse for more than 900 runners Sunday, Jan. 22, during the annual Key West Half Marathon.
The sporting challenge is to begin at 7 a.m., with participants proceeding along a flat, fast 13.1-mile half-marathon course amid the island city’s [...]
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KEY WEST, Florida Keys — Fresh Florida Keys seafood and the commercial fishermen who harvest it are to be celebrated Saturday, Jan. 14, during the seventh annual Florida Keys Seafood Festival.
Presented by the Florida Keys Commercial Fishermen’s Association, the family-friendly festival is set for 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Key West’s Bayview Park, located [...]
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KEY WEST, Florida Keys — The Florida Keys Art Guild is to hold an open-air holiday art showcase Tuesday through Saturday, Dec. 27-31, at Key West’s Bayview Park, located at Truman Avenue and Jose Marti Drive.
Set for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, the show is to feature the work of local and national [...]
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FLORIDA KEYS — Henry Flagler’s Florida Keys Over-Sea Railroad ceased operating in 1935, but two Keys women vividly remember childhood experiences riding the “railroad that went to sea.”
Completed in 1912, it was called the Over-Sea Railroad because its track stretched more than 100 miles out into open water. For 23 years it carried passengers from [...]
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FLORIDA KEYS — An online contest has debuted in which the winner receives a weeklong Florida Keys vacation for two as part of the 100th anniversary celebration of the completion of Henry Flagler’s Florida Keys Over-Sea Railroad.
The winner of the Florida Keys Cyber-Train to Sunshine Contest and a guest can follow the historic railroad’s route [...]
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