Janaysa Dorcin, 18, from North Miami Beach is a 12th grader at American Senior High School and is its valedictorian.       She is to attend Harvard University in the fall, her college and career advisor Martha Subias-Porro says.      Janaysa is class president and studied in the Cambridge program. She is also enrolled at Miami Dade College, from which she hopes to obtain an...

    The 7th Annual Cars for a Cure auto show drew crowds of onlookers to see more than 200 classic vehicles displayed April 2 along the streets of downtown Miami Lakes, the non-profit organization said. It was all for a good cause, to benefit research at University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.  The fundraiser is a passion of the Alonso family, whose patriarch Roberto Alonso, Sr. was the town’s first...

     Members of Barbara Goleman Senior High School and its National Honor Society and the charitable organization Giving Gators present a $3,000 check on March 14 to benefit children who live in unstable housing and are educated through Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ Project UP-START program. The funds were raised at the National Honor Society’s color run, Giving Gators said.      Shown in the...

     A faded framed newspaper photo that hangs in Snow’s Jewelers shows a smiling family -- Edward and Ida Snow and their son Gary -- as they sign a lease to become the first tenants on Main Street in Miami Lakes.      That was in 1983.       “This was just getting going,” Gary Snow, 74, said about downtown Miami Lakes.       He recalled how...

     The Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce hosted Cuba expert Brian Latell at its April 12 luncheon.      “I’m very excited,” President Fred Senra said. “We’ve haven’t had a spy here before.”      Many chamber members are of Cuban heritage and were attentive to what Dr. Latell -- a historian, retired CIA analyst, government advisor, educator and author...