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 Monroe County Parks and Beaches, along with the Lower Keys Rotary, will start a new tradition with the inaugural Big Pine Key Tree Lighting on Friday, Nov. 21, at Big Pine Key Community Park. The event begins at 6 p.m., and the official lighting of the 14-foot-tall holiday tree will take place at 7 p.m. The event is free.
Families are invited to ring in the holiday season with an evening full of festive fun, including games, a holiday hayride, live entertainment, s’mores, and hot cocoa. Young guests can visit Santa’s Village for holiday cheer and a chance to meet Santa Claus. “This is a great opportunity for our community to come together and celebrate the spirit of the season,” said Parks and Beaches Director John Allen. “We’re excited to start this new holiday tradition with our local families and neighbors.” |
 [Who’s Right] Why are most people right-handed? A mix of biology, environment, and evolution helps explain our rightie-dominated world. Link |
| [Barber Shop] Turn key business for sale or lease in Marathon. Rent is $2K/ month, including water, sewer, and electric. Contact Charlie at 305-304-1724. |
 [Captain Joseph Hall Shot Dead] A well-known Florida Keys charter fishing captain was fatally shot near Orlando late last week following what police say appears to be an argument with another man over traffic. Joseph Hall, Jr., 43, was pronounced dead at HCA Lake Monroe Hospital in Sanford around 5:45 p.m. Thursday night. Just minutes earlier, witnesses told police they saw another man, 24-year-old Jaden Harris, running after Hall at an apartment building parking lot with a handgun and shooting at him several times. Link |
| [Operating Margins] Divide a company’s income by its revenue, and you get the operating margin. For some volume of sales that comes into the business, it gives an idea of what percentage is left as cash in the end. Barring some accounting shenanigans regarding where the bottom line is. Link |
 I purchased chicken thighs for lunch yesterday at the Big Pine Circle K store. They were excellent! We don’t have many fast food places here in Big Pine, but this is defiantly a good choice for chicken. |
| [Electric Vehicles] You know it’s kind of ironic that most of the people who disparage electric vehicles every chance they get, have no problem buying every cordless power tool or yard equipment that they can find. And let’s not forget the golf cart, Florida has the highest number of golf carts per Capita. And I’m sure that their houses have every cordless appliance known to mankind. Maybe someone should alert them to their hypocrisy. |
 Famous Hollywood movie cars go up for auction. Pictured: Police Cruiser, circa 1989, from Back to the Future Part II. Link |
| [Florida – Lowest Wages] Florida’s four largest metropolitan areas rank in the bottom quarter of the nation’s major cities in terms of the median wages paid to workers. This at a time when the cost of living is skyrocketing—especially the cost of housing, which over the past decade has jumped 164 percent in the Sunshine State. Of the top 50 markets included in the Bureau of Labor Statistics study, Orlando was near the bottom, ranked 49th. It was followed by Jacksonville at Number 43, Tampa at 41, and Miami in 39th place. Link |
 [Big Pine Book Club] For the December 19th meeting we will read Key West Sketchers. Writers at Mile Zero Edited by Cary Winfrey. An eclectic collection by writers who have lived, worked, and played in Key West, Florida. Key West has long been America’s most vibrant writers’ colony, tracing its writerly roots to Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Robert Frost, John Hersey, Richard Wilbur, James Merrill, and Elizabeth Bishop. Link |
| Florida Keys: United Way of Collier and the Keys’ (UWCK) annual Feed the Keys food drive, held Friday, October 17, 2025, brought in 7,138 pounds of food to support local pantries across the Upper, Middle, and Lower Keys. These donations are needed now more than ever,” said Tiffani Mensch, President and CEO of United Way of Collier and the Keys. “Forty-five percent of Monroe County residents live paycheck to paycheck and struggle with food insecurity. We’ve also seen an increase in need following the pause of SNAP benefits.” |
 [Recipe BQ Jackfruit Pulled Pork]You won’t believe how meaty and tender this BBQ Jackfruit Pulled Pork really is! Jackfruit and barbecue sauce are cooked together on the stove, giving you an easy and smoky shredded meat copycat even carnivores will love. Link |
| [Giving Up] The surprising benefits of giving up. Ditching or adjusting goals in the face of adversity might often be the best thing for us—but we don’t all approach these challenges in the same way. Link |
 Ann Hampton Callaway is one of America’s most gifted artists in pop and jazz. A leading champion of the great American Songbook, she’s made her mark as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host and producer. Voted by Broadwayworld.com as “Celebrity of the Year” and two years in a row as “Best Jazz Vocalist,” Ann is a born entertainer. She is best known for Tony-nominated performance in the hit Broadway musical “Swing!” and for writing and singing the theme song to the hit TV series “The Nanny.” She made her feature film debut opposite Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon in the Robert De Niro film “The Good Shepherd.” Callaway is a Platinum Award selling writer whose songs are featured on seven of Barbra Streisand’s recent CD’s. Link |
| [Big Brother is Back] Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk. The first big move in that direction is an experimental feature called “Agent Workspace,” which gives AI agents access to the most-used folders in your directory, such as Desktop, Music, Pictures, and Videos. It will also allow AI agents to have their own runtime, desktop, user account, and ability to always run in the background if you turn on the feature. Link |
 Art from dried leaves. Link |
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| Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies. Comments on Huxley’s final speech. Link |
 Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication. City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals. Link |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 11/18/25 at 7:49 am. |