MHMC- Re-Design Template Doc Size 11.25” X 14” Image Area 9.66 x 11 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK 1 SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2009 | CONTENTS © 2009 KEYNOTER PUBLISHING CO. | VOL. 56, NO. 57 | WWW.KEYSNET.COM | 25 CENTS Python hunters L’ATTITUDES The last CAMP & get busy Careers student showcase is tonight, with STOMP, ball- room, lots of great music, 9-footer found and a student-created buffet, under boardwalk Hemingway look-alikes crowd into Key West to in Broward County compete in the big show at Sloppy Joe’s, and Key By KEVIN WADLOW Largo gets ready for its sec- Senior Staff Writer ond annual Food & Wine [email protected] Festival. All this and more in L’Attitudes, starting on A crew on an expedition seek- Page 19. ing Burmese python in state wet- lands quickly discovered one of SEWER SPENDING: Michael HEADLINES INSIDE the unwanted reptiles on Friday. Sole, secretary of the State On a publicity-tour stop at a Huge tax bite Department of Environmental tree island in western Broward Protection, chats with County, near the Holiday Trail, Acting schools Super- Marathon officials Thursday at intendent Mike Henriquez is newly authorized snake wran- the Little Venice sewer plant. proposing a 16 percent glers captured a python measur- property tax hike for the Sole presented the city with ing 9 feet, 8 inches. It was under School District’s coming $10 million in federal stimulus a boardwalk. fiscal year. See story, money for sewer construction. “Everybody was very sur- Page 15. Marathon’s estimated cost for prised that a python was found,” sewers is $88 million. To the left said Pat Behnke, a spokeswoman Games on illustrates where the money for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Reversing itself — and goes. Conservation Commission. “Our facing a lawsuit over gender experts told us not to expect that discrimination — the we could find one.” Florida High School FWC Chairman Rodney Athletic Association has Barreto, a part-time Keys resi- decided to return to full dent, accompanied the group. schedules for all prep sports. Attack victim Pythons have become the See story, Page 27. poster reptile for invasive exotic species in South Florida, symbol- izing the environmental danger that non-native species pose to INDEX the natural ecosystem. on the mend On Wednesday — just days Business . .25 after U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson illus- Classifieds . .30 KEY WEST mild-mannered Milone so shock- trated the dangers of pythons by Living . .26 Milone recalls few ing is the severity of the beating rolling out a 16-foot python skin Obituaries . .17 details of beating; Suspect’s football career — and the fact that he’s running to his colleagues on the Senate Opinion . .6 is over. See story, Page 2. for the City Commission. floor — Gov. Charlie Crist put Sports/Outdoors . .27 four suspects held Four Key West teenagers were out an order allowing qualified Crossword . .24 charged Tuesday with aggravated trappers to catch them in South By SEAN KINNEY Milone, 63, is one of two Key battery in the attacks, for which Florida wetlands. So far, five Printed on 100% [email protected] Westers beaten Monday night in police still have not given a people statewide have been recycled newsprint two separate attacks in Old Town. motive. They also haven’t said granted permits. Tom Milone says he never Don Sullivan, 65, was also what led them to the suspects. After catching a python, they saw it coming — but might have attacked, as he walked along Milone’s beating left him with must euthanize it, then report its heard it when it arrived. Elizabeth Street. He was injured two breaks in his jaw, which doc- GPS location and take a digital “I think, in retrospect, I and treated at Lower Keys tors had to stabilize with two tita- photo of the carcass. They must 7786790 22222 remember the sound of punches,” Medical Center. he said. What made the attack on the See MILONE / 2 See PYTHONS / 3 MHMC- Re-Design Template Doc Size 11.25” X 14” Image Area 9.66 x 11 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK 2 2 Saturday, July 18, 2009 Keys News Keynoter KEYS WEATHER BEACH ADVISORIES PREDICTED TEMPERATURES Football star is ‘done’ There currently are no Keys beaches with health DATE HI LO KEY WEST “I don’t know if I want to advisories against swim- SAT. 92 83 Attack suspect talk to him now,” he said. “I’m ming. SUN. 92 83 had been warned our football program and it’s a really [mad]. He let us down MON. 91 82 bad scar on Key West High and he let himself down.” TUES. 90 82 about associates School.” The violence of the attacks GOVERNMENT MEETINGS Hughes said he had been surprised Hughes, who said Forecast: Expect partly By DICK WAGNER concerned that Harris had fall- Harris was a “happy-go-lucky The following upcom- cloudy skies with a Keynoter Contributor en in with the “wrong crowd” kid without a mean streak in his ing government meetings chance of thunderstorms. and that he had talked with the body.” and events are scheduled It’s the ultimate fumble for player about that recently at Hughes said he believed for broadcast on Comcast CONTACT US one of the teens arrested in Grim’s Grill, a Conch-sports- Harris “got intimidated by the Channel 76: Monday’s Old Town Key West oriented bar on Flagler Avenue wrong guys and became ◆ Monday: County Upper Keys attacks on two men in their 60s. where Harris worked as a dish- involved” in the assaults. Commission budget 91655 Overseas Highway Among the four arrested is washer and bar back. “You can control them here meeting (repeat), 5 p.m. Tavernier, FL 33070 Chris Harris, 17, a two-year “I told him we needed to sit [at school], but you can’t put a ◆ Tuesday: Marathon Newsroom .......(305) 853-7103 starting defensive back on the down and talk again,” Hughes damn radar on them when City Council (repeat), 5 Advertising.......(305) 852-3216 Key West High School football said, adding that he had talked they’re in the streets,” Hughes p.m. Fax.....................(305) 853-1040 team. before with Harris and his said. “We try to teach them ◆ Wednesday: County Fax.....................(305) 852-0199 Harris, who faces felony grandmother about his associa- more than Xs and Os, but evi- Planning Commission, 10 aggravated assault and robbery tions. “It’s a shame. He’s not a dently we didn’t get that across a.m. Marathon charges, had been expected to bad kid, but he was not focused to Chris. Why didn’t he say, ◆ Thursday: County ‘Hey, this is wrong?’ Why did- 3015 Overseas Highway be one of the team’s top senior to do the right thing all the Commission (repeat), 5 n’t he stop it?” (P.O. Box 500158) players in the 2009 season. In time. It goes to show you it’s p.m. who you hang around with. He Harris had a bright athletic Marathon, FL 33050-0158 May, he intercepted three pass- ◆ Friday: County Com- es in the Conchs’ 29-26 spring- hung around with the wrong future. Newsroom ......(305) 743-5551 mission budget meeting, game victory over Hialeah guys.” “We could have probably Advertising......(305) 743-5551 10 a.m. Miami Lakes. Hughes said Thursday he [persuaded] somebody — even Fax ...................(305) 743-6397 “He’s done, he’s finished,” had no immediate plans to see a Division 3 college — to take Fax ...................(305) 743-9586 coach Jerry Hughes, 62, said Harris, who is being held on him on that spring game alone,” when asked if Harris could play Stock Island by the Department Hughes said. “I feel bad for Key West in the fall. “It’s a bad scar on of Juvenile Justice. him. His life is ruined.” 2720-A N. Roosevelt Blvd. Overseas Market Key West, FL 33040 Newsroom ......(305) 296-6989 ‘I don’t remember being airlifted’ Advertising......(305) 296-6989 Fax ...................(305) 296-1287 the count, and outside his house and asked for a Keys Information Station MILONE / From 1 he’s not letting cigarette. Channel 5 News E-mail the assault “Sullivan told the one black Monday - Friday [email protected] nium plates. “My mouth is wired interrupt his male he did not smoke. At this shut. I’m not too pretty to look run to be the point, the black male said, 6:00 p.m. Missing your paper? at,” he said. District 1 city ‘You’re going to be sorry’ and 8:00 p.m. If your newspaper is not Friday, two days after he commissioner. struck Sullivan across the right 9:00 p.m. delivered by 7:00 a.m. (7:30 returned to the Keys from “At this ear area of the head. Sullivan Keys news daily a.m. weekends, holidays) Jackson Memorial Hospital in point, I’m said a second black male jumped call (305) 743-5551, ext. 12, Miami, he tried to recall the staying in the him from behind knocking him from the staff of MILONE before 10 a.m. weekdays events surrounding the beating, race,” he says. to the ground,” a report says. The Keynoter, and 11 a.m. Saturday for but the details are fuzzy. The only other declared candi- After Sullivan called police, The Reporter and redelivery. On Sunday or “I went to the gym at 9 p.m. date in District 1 is former they took him to the George Keys Sunday, after hours, call toll-free on Monday,” he explained. After Mayor Jimmy Weekley.