Jose Bueno, principal at Hialeah Miami Lakes Senior High School, was named Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ Principal of the Year for the North Region during a ceremony at Jungle Island in Miami. Bueno began his teaching career in 1993 and by 2003, he had become principal of Jose Marti Middle School, where he raised the school grade from a “C” to an “A.” He then became the founding principal of Country...

  They call it “Geezer Ball.” A group of senior citizens, of various ages, shapes and talent levels, have been playing softball at 9 a.m. every Monday and Wednesday at Miami Lakes Optimist Park for almost five years. The group includes an unusual bunch of characters including the oldest player, Angel Sosa, a Celebration Point resident who turns 82 on October 1. And there’s Mariano Fernandez who would not say a word...

  Our Lady of the Lakes’ varsity girls Volleyball team opened the season on March 11 against Blessed Trinity. After a slow start losing 10-25, they turned it around and defeated  Blessed Trinity in the second set 25-23, and the deciding final set 15-11. The team is now 1-1 and looking forward to a successful Spring season. The OLL varsity boys Flag Football team is off to a fast start winning their first two games of the...

  Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s SPE SALVI facti sumus group, students with documented disabilities receiving Catholic education to attain a special diploma, received very exciting news in the mail: A dedicated letter from President Obama. The students, under the guidance of their teacher Jorge Rodriguez-Miralles, wrote letters to President Obama congratulating him on President’s Day and in celebration of Black History...

  Over 100 high school seniors from schools throughout Miami-Dade and Broward counties returned to their childhood school for the Miami Lakes K-8 Center Class of 2014 Homecoming Reunion. This group of students was the second to complete their K-8 years at Miami Lakes in 2010. Four years later, they returned as young men and women eager to recapture the memories from their early years, where they met as four- and five-year olds, and...