Three longtime students of Maria Cama’s Piano Studio in Miami Lakes have recently made the transition to colleges and universities.  Miami Lakes residents, Joseph Clayton Brock, 21, Mariah Crowny, 20, and Jesus Lopez, 18, have spent their formative years playing piano, participating in recitals and excelling at school. Brock is entering his first year of internal medicine at Liberty University College of Osteopathic...

  Walmart Supercenter, located at 5851 NW 177 Street, and the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Northwest District teamed up once again for their annual Back to School Supply Giveway on Saturday, August 22. Hundreds of kids and their parents were on hand to receive notebooks, pencils, pens, back packs and other school-related tools as they prepared for the first day of school following a long summer vacation. Store manager Pat Riley...

    Shula’s Golf Course is hosting a “Thursday Night Shootout” beginning Thursday, September 3, and will run every Thursday at 5 p.m. until November 5. The shootout will take place at Shula’s Senator Course at the golf club, located at 7601 Miami Lakes Drive, and is open to anyone with an established handicap or GHIN number.The event is $15 per person and covers carts, green fees. Those interested in the...

  Barbara Goleman’s dance team, the Jewels, spent the tail end of the summer vacation at the National Dance Competition (NDA) that took place at the Broward County Convention Center in mid August. After four days of competition, the 14 Jewels members brought home various awards.The team received the Spirit Stick all days of competition, Technical Excellence of the Day (the only team to receive it on that day), 28 Superior ratings...

  Running as smoothly as the military on maneuvers, Miami-Dade Public Schools’ bus drivers took their fleet of buses to the streets early in the morning a week before the start of classes for a dry run of the 952 routes they will operate throughout the school year to transport nearly 60,000 students. Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho was at the Southwest Transportation Garage to greet drivers and discuss the...