Elsa Reus, of Hialeah Gardens, vice chair of the Miami Lakes Cultural Affairs Committee, is a world traveler. Since 2024, she has taken a Seine River cruise from Brittany to Paris in France, and in 2025 celebrated her birthday in England, Wales and Scotland.      In December, she journeyed to Vatican City in Italy for the Jubilee, a year-long event for Catholic pilgrims.       Like...

     Before a sold-out audience in her hometown stadium at the 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship, Brianna Therve met the opportunity of a lifetime and performed like a star.      Producers chose Therve, 18, a junior at Barbara Goleman Senior High School, to sign “America the Beautiful” as the Florida Memorial University Ambassador Chorale sang the song.     ...

    Inside a replica cattle car like those used by the Nazi regime, shoe prints marked where crowds of men, women and children on their way to concentration camps during World War II would have stood.       Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sen. René García invited a non-profit group called Hate Ends Now to bring the cattle car, artifacts –- a yellow Star of David patch; a sign for Zyklon-B pesticide used...

The Office of Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez will bring the TConnect bus to Miami Lakes on March 17, at Royal Oaks Park. Services offered by the mobile tax collector office include: -- Driver’s license renewals, replacement or reinstatement; --New identification card or renewal; --Car registration renewal; --Adding or removing the organ donor identifier or other restrictions on licenses,...

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