Call it pandemic fashion, the colorful face coverings we wear to protect ourselves, our families, friends and neighbors from the COVID-19 virus and its variants.

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     Photos by Linda Trischitta, The Miami Laker.

     Students from Lawton Chiles Middle School won 1st place in the 2021 - 2022 SECME Festival and Olympiad Bridge competition held remotely by Miami-Dade County Public Schools on Jan. 29.      The winners shown above are, from left: Kennedy Granville and Agustin Betancourt, both in seventh grade and Amerie Cummings, eighth grade at the school, at 8190 NW 197th St. in Miami.      The students...

     The Miami-Dade County Public Schools Board welcomed new Supt. Jose L. Dotres on Feb. 14.      The board hired Dotres on Jan. 24. He began his career in county schools where he advanced to principal and administrative positions.      Dotres also was a chief academic officer in Broward County Public Schools overseeing funding for Title I and Head Start, and for nine months, deputy...

          The Graham Companies has named Alina Molina vice president of Human Resources.      Molina, of Miami Lakes, is a member of the management team and guides the company’s human resources operations from its Main Street headquarters.      “I’ve lived in Miami Lakes for 25 years, and the last thing I ever expected was to be working in my own community, in my...

     Miami Lakes councilmembers are urging residents to get active if they want to stop the opening of the Northwest 154th Street bridge that is currently closed. It crosses Interstate 75 and ends in Hialeah.      The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners was scheduled to vote March 1 to urge the Florida Department of Transportation to open the span but deferred the vote until March 15 to give Miami Lakes...