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“Electric bikes weigh as much as motorcycles, go as fast as motorcycles, have tires as big as motorcycles, have engines and you want to put them on sidewalks with baby

The saga of Miss May Johnson, a 20-year-old schoolteacher whose 1896-97 diary entries captivated readers for two years in The Key West Citizen, has come to an end with Thursday’s Today in Keys History entry. The journal entries, compiling the day-to-day experiences of the young Key West woman, were transcribed by Mary Heffenreffer and provided by Tom Hambright, historian of the Monroe Public Library and made part of the Today in Keys History column, which appears daily in The Citizen. “My job is to collect and preserve history, but that whole family is a huge, interesting rat hole t...

“Now that code enforcement has completely given up even the pretense of enforcing mask laws, maybe they can do something about all the illegal vacation rentals all over town. Even

1836: The temperature dropped to 44 degrees, the coldest recorded since the island was settled. 1856: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 5:30 and walked on the beach, returned home and bathed. At 9:15 a.m. barometer 29.57, thermometer 68, wind north by east 2, clouds 9. The weather is raw and disagreeable. Drew up petitions for John Lowe of the Libby Sheppard for 172 bales of cotton and one anchor and chain, Simon Frow of the schooner Florida for 201 bales of cotton, James Riggs of Ramona for 112 bales of cotton and Oliver Braman of the schooner Dart for 61 bales of cotton from th...

1856: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 6, thermometer 57. At 9 a.m. barometer 29.51.5, thermometer 61, wind north northeast 2, clouds 1. Read Law magazine. P. m. read Household Word. Sent Huc’s “Travels in China” home by Hatty. 1897: May Johnson recorded in her diary: I arose at 7 o’clock, dressed, had breakfast, went to school, came home, had dinner, played on piano, went to Aunt Julia’s, came home, dressed, Lena and I went to La Brisa 1912: John J. Frawley, of the Lubin Manufacturing Company, was in Key West to film the arrival of the first train and t...