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ISLAMORADA Protest Halts Sewer Drilling by KEVIN WADLOW Animals WWW.KEYSINFONET.COM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2013 VOLUME 60, NO. 102 G 25 CENTS ISLAMORADA Protest halts sewer drilling By KEVIN WADLOW animals. We put them above Staff at Theater of the Sea says stagnant, or the water gets Sheriff’s Office spokes- Senior Staff Writer our own well-being,” Theater contaminated by fungus or woman Becky Herrin said. [email protected] of the Sea curator Beverly work would endanger the animals bacteria, our animals could After consultation with Osborne said. become ill or worse.” village of Islamorada waste- Staff at an Islamorada dol- “We can’t afford to find Highway, off mile marker 84.7, contractors set up drilling Monroe County Sheriff’s water officials, the contrac- phin facility protested out the hard way that this was to safeguard an underground equipment yards away. Office patrol cars responded tors temporarily halted work. drilling for sewer pipes a very bad idea,” Osborne culvert and channel that carries “That water is our lifeline to a 10 a.m. call from the “We asked the contractors Friday on Windley Key, fear- said. “Our veterinarian has a ocean water into dolphin ponds into a land-locked facility. sewer contractor. to stop work [Friday] at ing that it could destroy an lot of concerns.” at Theater of the Sea. It’s crucial,” veterinary tech- “We stood by to make Theater of the Sea so their aquatic “lifeline” needed by One staff member parked Several other Theater of nician Melissa Jaroneski sure it did not turn into any- engineer can look at the the attraction’s animals. her car in the planned construc- Sea staff members surrounded said. “If [the channel] col- thing more serious, or that “All we care about is the tion route along the Old the car and refused to move as lapses and our ponds become any laws were broken,” See Protest, 2A MARATHON REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE Planning board OKs recycle site wrong in June to deny Lopez It reverses permits for the transfer sta- city official’s tion. The vote was 3-2, with commissioners Dan Zieg and earlier denial Lott Pansky dissenting. Commissioners Jim By RYAN McCARTHY Tashjian, Lynn Landry and [email protected] Ralph Lucignano voted to overturn Garrett’s decision. It’s far from a done deal, The meeting room at the but the Marathon Planning firehouse at Florida Keys Commission on Monday nar- Marathon Airport was filled rowly supported Discount well beyond capacity for the Rock and Sand owner Eddie decision. The session was Lopez’s long-planned con- delayed nearly 25 minutes as struction and demolition- city staff signed members of debris recycling and transfer the public in and emptied the station on Aviation Boulevard. room to its 50-person limit. Specifically, the advisory According to city Planner board ruled that city Planning Director George Garrett was See Planning, 3A MIDDLE KEYS Liveaboards vent to the FWC enforcement in the harbor Marathon Middle School They call agency that began Thanksgiving and teacher Jeanette Maresma heavy-handed but lasted more than a week. (above) brings students to the That resulted in the Marathon Publix to get some captain disagrees Florida Fish and Wildlife real-world job experience Conservation Commission By RYAN McCARTHY agreeing to the meeting, and arranged through what’s [email protected] saying the agency was not, in called the Power of Work fact, harassing the boaters. program. Decorating desserts More than 150 Boot Key Capt. David Dipre fielded the under the direction of bakery Harbor liveaboard boaters questions and concerns from Manager Marcos Perez are packed the City of Marathon more than a dozen residents. Angelberto Alvear, Nathalie Marina meeting hall Later in the evening, Dipre Valdes and Aron Prieto. Wednesday for a lengthy dis- went through a PowerPoint At Bank of America (left), cussion to address what they presentation highlighting the call excessive law enforce- finer points of The Florida Manager Darlene Corbin ment on the water. Boater’s Guide, a handbook shows Emma Hillyer how The liveaboards were up detailing “boating laws and the money counter works. in arms because of what they perceived to be harassing See Harbor, 2A KEYS COMMUNTY COLLEGE RIDING IN STYLE State: FKCC can improve “We’re moving in the response,” college President cases may have exceeded the President says right direction,” Board of Jonathan Gueverra notes that cost of the services provided. several fixes Trustees member Brian the college has trained its The operational findings Schmitt said Friday. employees in best practices centered on controls over how put in place The audit covers the 2013 and said the problem is fixed. marine engineering and diving calendar year; a financial Schmitt said Vice classes use the six boats either By SEAN KINNEY audit tied to the fiscal year is President of Finance Jean owned or loaned to the col- [email protected] separate and usually comes Mauk, hired in 2011, “had a lege, as well as the need to out the third week of March. backlog of things she had to tighten up computer security. An audit of Florida Keys Auditors recommended, deal with coming in” and The college owns two Community College, for the second year in a row, now that she’s caught up, boats and uses four others on released Thursday by the that the small Stock Island- “I’m confident in how our loan. Internal policy requires Sara Bernal, a third-grader at Stanley Switlik Elementary Florida Auditor General’s based college improve its han- finances are being managed.” professors to fill out a School in Marathon, got the star treatment Thursday when Office, indicates the college dling of bank reconciliations. Auditors also found prob- detailed request-for-use According to the audit report, lems with the college’s form that lists the class, she got a ride to school on a Marathon Fire Rescue truck, a has problems with nine ele- ments of its operations, transactions from July 2012 bookkeeping as it relates to names of people on the ves- reward for her success in the school’s read-a-thon. Her escorts down from 16 in 2012. Still, until May 2013 were not the per-credit-hour fee of sel and purpose. were (from left) firefighter/paramedic George Martinez, Lt. some are repeat criticisms recorded until Aug. 12, 2013. $25 fee for distance-learning Danny Murciano and firefighter/paramedic Danny Montanez. from the previous year. In his “management courses, which in some See FKCC, 2A INDEX Printed on 100% Classifieds . .7B recycled newsprint Investigator Living . .3B CONTENTS © 2013 arrested In L’Attitudes Business . .7A KEYNOTER PUBLISHING CO. An investigator with the Not one but four Florida Obituaries . .2A Monroe County State Keys food festivals Opinion . .6A Attorney’s Office is arrested focusing on seafood are approaching. Story, 4B Sports/Outdoors . .1B for allegedly driving drunk. Story, 4A Crossword . .6B 7786790 22222 G 2A Saturday, December 21, 2013 KeysInfoNet.com Keynoter NEWS BRIEFS MARATHON Now, rock pythons ID’d as a problem Schmitt asked interest State biologists are con- cerned that the aggressive in city manager job rock python might be the lat- est invasive species to you?” Tashjian responded he was caught off guard by become established in the Mayor: Tashjian with a simple “No.” Tashjian’s inquiry. Everglades and elsewhere in inquiry ‘bizarre’ Hernstadt is scheduled “It was so far off the wall South Florida. to interview for the Marco that I don’t even know where Wildlife officials planned Island job next month. it’s coming from,” Schmitt Friday to do a walking sur- By RYAN McCARTHY Schmitt — the target of said. “Why would I apply vey just west of Miami to [email protected] a murder-for-hire plot last when there is no possibility I see how many of the big December — has been would ever be hired?” snakes might be living Count Realtor Bruce among the most vocal crit- Tashjian said on Friday there. Florida is already Schmitt out of the running to ics of city government. that he was merely “curious” grappling with Burmese be Marathon’s city manager Specifically, he claims that about Schmitt’s interest. pythons in the Everglades, should City Manager Roger another planning commis- “It was a personal e-mail where they are being Hernstadt leave for the same sioner, Ralph Lucignano, is between me and him. I don’t blamed for sharp decreases position in Marco Island. responsible for keeping a even think it should have in many native species. Schmitt made that clear law in place stopping pack- been made public,” he said. Rock pythons can grow in an e-mail conversation age liquor stores from Tashjian added that he to about 16 feet and are the involving him, city opening within 1,500 feet sees nothing wrong with largest snakes in Africa. Planning Commission of one another. asking the question, despite Biologists say they are Chairman James Tashjian Lucignano owns the his position on the Planning among the world’s most and the entire City Council. Marathon Deli & Liquor Commission. aggressive snakes and will In a Dec. 11 e-mail, shop on Overseas Highway “I’ve asked a few people eat almost anything they Tashjian, from a private e- near mile marker 50, nearly if they would be interested in can swallow. mail address, asked about next door to a Walgreens putting in for it. I didn’t mean The survey Friday is Schmitt’s interest in the job. Schmitt developed that is anything by it,” he said. Keynoter photo by KEVIN WADLOW part of a state effort to “Bruce, If Roger is allowed to sell beer and wine Mayor Dick Ramsay Theater of the Sea veterinary technician Melissa Jaroneski eradicate the snakes from offered and takes the Marco only.
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