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🌱 The Overseas Highway joins a centennial-inspired road-trip list

Big Pine Key, Florida Patch AM: a 4 min read

Hi Big Pine Key! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • The Overseas Highway joins a centennial-inspired road-trip list
  • Explore Key West's Cuban literary roots at a free library talk

Also on today's calendar: Hawks Cay Turkey Trot 5K and 11 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 86 and low of 76 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Thursday: Humid with a stray t-storm, temps: high: 84, low: 75.
  • Friday: Cloudy, a shower and t-storm, with a high of 81 and low of 69 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Best U.S. Road Trip Holidays to Celebrate Route 66's 100th Anniversary (internewscast.com) — The Overseas Highway gets a place among ten alternatives to Route 66 as the famed road reaches its centennial. The travel guide highlights Big Pine Key's tiny Key deer along the 113-mile Keys drive, with other stops including Key Largo's coral reefs and Marathon's Turtle Hospital.
   

• Discussion on Cuba with Barry professor at the library (keysnews.com) — Cuban writers and thinkers helped shape nineteenth-century Key West, a history Barry University professor Beatriz Calvo-Peña will explore at the Key West Library on Nov. 23. The free talk begins at 4 p.m. at 700 Fleming St., and anyone can attend without a library card.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Taking this opportunity to inquire what the going cost for a stairway on Big Pine or the Lower Keys is.
    It's a typical modular house on stilts, and I need to replace the stairs. Does anybody know what the going or average cost is? Thank you. (Nextdoor Port Pine Heights)
  • Does anyone have the coconut removal man number?
    I believe his name is coco Rudy & he always came with his wife. I had his number but I think the number is out of service now. I have so many big… (Nextdoor Key Deer)
  • EOS posted a job opening for Housekeeping Supervisor in Marathon. Apply here.
  • Hawks Cay Resort posted a job opening for Recreation Attendant in Marathon. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Big Pine Key here.

🗞 Nearby News

Marathon

  • Veterans Day ceremonies set in the Florida Keys (keysweekly.com)
  • Woman charged with DUI, fleeing accident (keysnews.com)
  • Concert group acquires Steinway Model D concert grand piano (keysnews.com)

Key West

  • College of the Florida Keys president offers Veterans Day salute (keysweekly.com)

Ok Big Pine Key! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Big Pine Key

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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Big Pine Key

Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.