One of The Graham Companies’ longtime employees has won a coveted prize: an Inn Key Award from the Greater Miami & The Beaches Hotel Association.      Ricardo “Ricky” Martinez, tennis supervisor at the Miami Lakes Athletic Club, received the Recreation/Spa Employee of the Year Award from the hospitality organization.      The prize recognizes outstanding and...

     The National Honor Society presented the chapter at Mater Lakes Academy with the Overall Award of Excellence for the 2024-25 school year.       The organization recognized the school’s club for achieving what it calls the four pillars, or its core values: scholarship, leadership, service and character.     Mater’s chapter was one of 48 in the country to be recognized, the...

     Boys from Miami Lakes and the Country Club community who are shown at left play for the Inter Miami CF Academy’s teams, and train at the MLS team’s headquarters in Fort Lauderdale.       The academy selects the players and coaches them at no charge. The kids travel to games around the state, have competed in Argentina and the Dominican Republic and this year will play in Austin,...

     The School for Advanced Studies and the Academy for Advanced Academics has a lot to celebrate.       Both programs are part of the Miami-Dade County Public School system, and have 18 students across six campuses who are semifinalists in the 2026 National Merit Scholarship program.      It also has 38 students who have been named National Merit Commended...

     A 12-year-old goalkeeper from Hialeah had a viral moment at a prestigious youth soccer tournament at the Wide World of Sports complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. in October when he made not one, not two, but three saves on the same play against Inter Miami and all within a matter of about three seconds.      Andres Paniagua was called upon to make a point-blank save after an opponent tried a one-time pass...