The Miami-Dade County Public School District appointed Dr. Yesenia Aponte as its North Region superintendent on July 24.       Prior to her appointment, Aponte was administrative director with the district’s division of academic support and served as principal at Aventura Waterways K-8 Center and Bunche Park Elementary School, a district press release said.       Aponte was...

     Nancy Rogers, aka Momma Nance, is known as a person who shows up and gets things done.  The former Jersey girl has volunteered for four decades in Miami Lakes.             Rogers, 75, chairs the town’s Public Safety Committee, is a member of the Elderly Affairs Committee and checks in marchers for the Veterans Committee on the day of the parade, among other good...

    The Main Street Players’ latest show tackles the traumas and travails of an exiled Cuban and the family he returns to in “Exilios.”      Directed by Danny Nieves and written by Yerandy Fleites Pérez, the show is performed in Spanish.       It takes place in present day Cuba and tells the story of Evaristo, a gay man who was forced to leave the country during the...

     The Hertz family of Pembroke Pines --  Joshua Hertz; daughter Abbey; wife Ana Hertz; daughter Emmy and son Zachary -- traveled to Hawai’i this summer to celebrate Joshua Hertz’s 50th birthday.       The family’s itinerary included a visit to Pearl Harbor on the island of Oah’u on July 18. It is the site of Japan’s surprise attack on the military base on December 7,...

     A committee may consider whether to rename Miami Lakes Educational Center in honor of retired Miami-Dade County School Board Chair Perla Tabares Hantman.      A community meeting held July 27 at the school drew 17 people who spoke for and against the renaming proposal.      Miami Lakes Educational Center social studies teacher John Moffi wants to keep the school’s name as is, but...