The Young at Heart group at New Testament Baptist Church is pictured during their Easter luncheon gathering on April 17. The group includes 40 to 60 men and women, ages 55 and older, that meets monthly with themes befitting the season and time of the year. The group is led by with Assistant Pastor Ralph Rodriguez and his wife, Rita, under Senior Pastor Matt Pettit. The meeting on Thursday, May 1, featured a Hawaiian theme. For more...

  On Wednesday, April 16, Mater Gardens Academy held an award ceremony in honor of the students who placed in their classroom spelling bee competitions, as well as the students who moved on to compete against other schools. The spelling bee competitions begin at the classroom level. Students compete against classmates for first, second and third place. These finalists then move on to compete against other classrooms in their grade level...

  If Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC) recognized valedictorians, senior Flavia Cuervo would take the title for the 2013-2014 school year. The senior, who ranks as top student with a 6.39 weighted grade-point average, now has to decide which Ivy League school to attend. Cuervo was admitted into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Johns Hopkins, in addition to the in-state schools she applied to including the University of Miami, Florida...

  Coaches and parents of the South Florida Sluggers, a 12-Under AAA baseball team with many players from Miami Lakes, are looking for community support to send the team to tournaments in Gainesville and the Bahamas this summer and fall. The team began playing together four years ago under the direction of Regino Rodriguez, Robert Arroyo and Abnell Melendez, a trio of fathers who love the game and love their players. It’s their...

  The only disappointment in David Michael Sirois' play Secrets of the La Croix is the wasted cranberry sauce that litters the floor in a Thanksgiving food fight amid unraveling secrets and sibling rivalry. Secrets of the La Croix, which runs one more weekend at the Main Street Playouse, perfectly portrays the tension and dysfunction of families during the holiday season, and every other season between. Playwright and director, Sirois...