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🌱 Key Largo gathers today to honor veterans

Key Largo, Florida Patch AM: a 4 min read

Good morning to you Key Largo! Catch up on our news and events right here. Keep reading to stay in the know. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Key Largo gathers today to honor veterans
  • Tesla challenges verdict in fatal Card Sound Road crash
  • Remembering Ellison Hardee, Pennekamp's first park manager

Also on today's calendar: Hawks Cay Turkey Trot 5K and 9 more events.

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

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: A shower and t-storm; humid, with a high of 85 and low of 76 degrees.
  • Thursday: Humid with a t-storm in spots, temps: high: 83, low: 75.
  • Friday: Cloudy, a shower and t-storm, with a high of 78 and low of 64 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Veterans Day ceremonies set in the Florida Keys (keysweekly.com) — Key Largo will honor veterans at 11 a.m. today at the Murray Nelson Government Center, with music from the Key Largo Community Band and a presentation of colors by Boy Scout Crew 914. Monroe County Veterans Affairs and VFW Post 10211 are hosting the ceremony, while county government offices close for the holiday.
   

2. Tesla Challenges $243 Million Florida Crash Verdict, Says Driver Ignored Autopilot Warnings (newsbreak.com) — Tesla is appealing a roughly $243 million judgment over a 2019 crash near Key Largo that killed Naibel Benavides Leon and seriously injured Dillon Angulo. The company blames the distracted driver, while the plaintiffs argue Autopilot lacked adequate safeguards. A jury assigned Tesla 33% of the fault, and the appeals court has not ruled.
   

3. Ellison Hardee, first Pennekamp Park manager, dies at 89 (keysnews.com) — Ellison Hardee, the first manager of Key Largo's John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, died Nov. 6 at 89. He helped establish the park and install its underwater Christ of the Deep statue in the 1960s, part of a Florida Park Service career that eventually took him into statewide leadership.
   

4. The Southernmost County In The Lower 48 (worldatlas.com) — Key Largo belongs to a county whose geography extends well beyond the inhabited Keys: about 73% of Monroe County is water, and most of its land is on the mainland. The feature explores that unusual footprint and explains why Key West’s famous buoy does not mark the country’s southernmost exposed land.
   

5. Best U.S. Road Trip Holidays to Celebrate Route 66's 100th Anniversary (internewscast.com) — Key Largo’s John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park is a recommended snorkeling stop in a road-trip guide marking Route 66’s centennial. The Overseas Highway appears among ten alternatives to the historic route, with the Keys itinerary continuing south to Marathon’s Turtle Hospital and Key West.
   

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Ok Key Largo! 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 Key Largo

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