As proposed by Chair Perla Tabares Hantman, the Miami-Dade School Board unanimously voted to endorse the 2014 “Welcome Back to School” Safety Flyer for distribution during the first week of school. For the past eight years, the Community Traffic Safety Team (CTST), a team of multi-jurisdictional agencies under the auspices of the Florida Department of Transportation, has partnered with the District to promote student...

 

Eduardo Crespo, a resident of Miami Lakes and a student at the Pratt Institute in New York, was among more than 1,000 students who made the Dean’s List for the Spring 2014 semester. Pratt Institute is dedicated to preparing its undergraduate and graduate students for successful careers in art, design, architecture, information an library science, and liberal arts and sciences.

 

Miami Lakes resident Lety Carvajal’s named was misspelled due to a typographical error in a July 18 headline announcing the opening of her new voluntary pre-kindergarten center, Springview Academy. 

  Registration for Miami Lakes Optimist Fall baseball season is scheduled for 9 a.m. on consecutive Saturdays, August 9, 16, and 23, at Miami Lakes Optimist Park. Kids can also registrater online at www. miamilakesoptimist.org.  Players must bring copies of their birth certificates and be fitted for their uniforms. Before the start of the regular season in September, players will tryout for teams and subsequently be drafted. For...

  Streetside Manifesto, the youth band of New Testament Baptist Church in northwest Miami-Dade, and known in the local community as a cover worship band, are led by worship directors Stefanie Metellus and Jessica Barrera (authors of the songs “Til You” and “Holy You Are”). The band is comprised of a variety of musicians and vocalists that lead worship in two different services held each week at New Testament...