🌱 What will Key Colony Beach’s Utility Board decide about your utilities?
Key Colony Beach, Florida Patch AM: a 4 min readGood morning to you Key Colony Beach! Catch up on our news and events right here. Keep reading to stay in the know. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- What will Key Colony Beach’s Utility Board decide about your utilities?
- How Key Colony Beach donors are helping restore our coral reefs
Also on today's calendar: Luke @ Havana Jack’s and 4 more events.
Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Friday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 89 and low of 79 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Saturday: Mostly sunny and nice, temps: high: 88, low: 79.
- Sunday: Partly sunny, a stray t-storm, with a high of 89 and low of 80 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• 06-16-2026 Utility Board Meeting Agenda (keycolonybeach.net) — Key Colony Beach’s Utility Board will meet June 16 at Marble Hall and via Zoom to review the draft 2026–27 utility budget, wastewater and stormwater finances, and tidal-surge protections for the wastewater plant. Residents can attend in person or online and comment on sludge hauling, grant updates, and the summer meeting schedule. 
• KML building fund draws donations (keysnews.com) — A local shout-out is due to the Key Colony Beach Boating and Fishing Club, which helped fund Keys Marine Laboratory’s reef restoration and operations. Their support, along with other Keys donors, backs KML’s expanding role in coral research and a major $60 million facility upgrade campaign.
📸 Around Key Colony Beach
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Upcoming Events in
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★ Featured events ★
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Grassy Flats Resort & Beach Club →
Grassy Flats Resort & Beach Club, 58182 Overseas Hwy, Marathon
5:00 pm
Saturday June 13
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Other local events
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Luke @ Havana Jack’s →
Havana Jack's Oceanside Restaurant and Bar, 401 E Ocean Dr, Key Colony Beach
6:00 pm -
Plant Bingo in Marathon! →
Faro Blanco Resort Marathon Florida Keys, Curio by Hilton, Marathon
6:00 pm -
Rock -n- Read Summer Reading: Rocking Through Space →
Monroe County Public Library, Marathon Branch, 3490 Overseas Hwy, Marathon
10:30 am -
Luke @ Havana Jack’s →
Havana Jack's Oceanside Restaurant and Bar, 401 E Ocean Dr, Key Colony Beach
6:00 pm -
Rock -n- Read Summer Reading: Sheriff's Animal Farm →
Monroe County Public Library, Marathon Branch, Marathon
10:30 am -
Luke @ Havana Jack’s →
Havana Jack's Oceanside Restaurant and Bar, 401 E Ocean Dr, Key Colony Beach
6:00 pm
Thursday June 18
Thursday June 25
Thursday July 2
Thursday July 9
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Higgs Beach Dog Park Closed for Routine Maintenance - Key West →
Monroe County, FL Calendar
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Beat The Heat - Big Pine Key Community Park →
Monroe County, FL Calendar, 31009 Atlantis Drive, Big Pine Key
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Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual Committee Meeting →
Monroe County, FL Calendar
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FREE Line Dance Classes - Big Pine Key Community Park →
Monroe County, FL Calendar, 31009 Atlantis Rd, Big Pine Key
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Senior Programing by JOY - Plantation Key →
Monroe County, FL Calendar
8:00 am
Friday June 12
Saturday June 13
Monday June 15
Tuesday June 16
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- The Home Depot, Inc. posted a job opening for Lot Associate in Marathon. Apply here.
- Isla Bella Beach Resort posted a job opening for Overnight Security Agent in Marathon. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Key Colony Beach here.
🗞 Nearby News
Marathon
- Felony fleeing nets two years in prison (keysnews.com)
- Libraries host summer reading program (keysnews.com)
- Kate from Baltimore wins ‘Battle of the Bands' for third year in a row (lakevillejournal.com)
Key Largo
- Student concert set for Saturday (keysnews.com)
- CFK invites community leaders, industry pros to teaching expo (keysnews.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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