Pace High School senior Amanda Prats was awarded the Barbara L. Frye Journalism Scholarship by the Florida Capitol Press Corps. The $2,000 scholarship is given out each year to aspiring student journalists in Florida colleges and high schools.  Prats, Editor-in-Chief of Pace’s Torch Yearbook for two years, was one of only three high school students awarded the scholarship. This past summer, she participated in the James...

  The Hialeah Miami Lakes High School band concluded the 2015 year ranked at number 4 in the state at the final competition of the year, Florida Marching Band Championships (FMBC) in St. Petersburg. The band competed against 20 other bands in their class (1A).  The HML band was named a finalist in the semi-finals at Sickles High School before progressing to finals at Tropicana Field, frequently referred to as “the dome”...

  Pace High School senior Daniel Labrousse received the QuestBridge National College Match Scholarship, a guaranteed full tuition four-year scholarship, to attend the University of Chicago. He is just one of 657 high school seniors from across the country awarded the scholarship out of 13, 262 applicants.  Scholarship winners are matched with a prestigious partner college, including Stanford, Yale, and MIT, for a guaranteed...

  Alexandra Villoch, the slender and well-dressed publisher of The Miami Herald, was quick to make one thing clear as she addressed The Harbinger staff recently, “I am not a journalist, but I run The Miami Herald.” And it is true, she never worked as a journalist. Earning a degree in business by the age of 21, Villoch has always been a standout and, while her manicured hands don’t show it, it was a grueling and long...

  The Montessori Children’s House in Miami Lakes participated in the Samartian’s Purse Christmas program for the 2015 holiday season. The children at the school packed shoe boxes with goodies, wrapping them and joining with other churches, schools, and organizations to bring a smile to the faces of children across the globe. For some of the recipients, this may be the first gift ever received along with the communication of...