The School for Advanced Studies is a top destination for ambitious students who want to earn both a diploma and an associate degree during their final two years of high school, without leaving a campus.      The school, known as SAS, is a collegiate high school -- created through a partnership between a college or university and a school district -- that holds classes at five campuses of Miami Dade...

     It’s time to dust off your helmet, tune up your bicycle and work up an appetite, because the 2nd Annual Miami Lakes Culinary Bike Tour is set for Saturday, Sept. 17.      Riders will leave from Miami Lakes Town Hall at 6 p.m. for a 5-mile trip to the designated dining spots.      Cyclists will visit restaurants in the Lake Katharine, Lake Patricia and Cypress Village shopping...

     Along Northwest 67 Avenue, across from Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Station 1, is Fountain Park Village.       The complex of townhomes were built parallel to the service road for the Palmetto Expressway, or Northwest 167 Street.  The southern side of the property borders the Loch Ness neighborhood.       Arrivals to 6700 - 6998 NW 67th Ave. are greeted by a fountain...

Rene Garcia  Hialeah Miami-Dade County Commissioner      “For me, the first day of school was always very exciting,” Rene Garcia said. “I wasn’t the best student, but I always went to school. I liked to talk a lot.       “The moment that stands out is that first day jitters of going in and trying to figure out what homeroom you were...

    A Cleveland man came to Miami Lakes and said he left with a golf memory for all-time.     JaMaaL E. Birkett, 74, made a hole-in-one on the par-3 5th hole at Miami Lakes Golf Club on July 8.      He was among 32 players from the Good Deeds International organization in Atlanta and the Majestic Gents from Chicago who were competing in a charity tournament.      Birkett’s...