The Superintendent's Honors Orchestra is a part of the Miami-Dade County Honors Music Festival that students from Miami-Dade County Public Schools audition to be a part of at either the elementary or secondary level in orchestra, band, and choir.  Miami Lakes K-8 Center students Ariana Rejas and Francis Dalipe, both eighth graders, auditioned for the first time and were selected to perform as part of an elite group of string players....

Pace High School senior Gabriela Gutierrez Perez may be most well-known among her peers for playing the violin, as she has in several on-stage performances and Open Mic Nights. However, it is her prowess with the harp that has led to her being accepted to three prestigious undergraduate institutes –the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Miami, and the University of Michigan. All institutions have...

Mater Academy junior Lauren Batista recently was accepted to the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine summer program where she will be studying medical and science courses such as anatomy, cellular molecular biology, and anthropology.Batista is the first Mater Academy student to get accepted into the prestigious program, which is a seven week, summer enrichment program for high school students who will be entering the 12th...

Goleman’s badminton team celebrates an amazing season after attending and for the first time in Goleman’s history the team placed in the Youth Fair Tournament on March 11 at South Miami Sr. High. In girls singles Patricia Miranda finished in first place for Dade county and in girls doubles Sydney Cote and Alyssa Moore finished in second.  For North Districts Divisionals on April 6, Miranda took home first place for girls...

Miami Lakes voters received their Special Election Mail Ballots on Thursday, April 28, and within hours, their phones were alive with automated phone calls, in English and Spanish, urging a “No” vote across the ballot for all 10 recommended Charter Amendments.On Saturday, April 30, town residents opened their mail boxes to find the cover of a cleverly-worded flyer with “scare” headlines warning of “Tax...