Since kids have returned to school, drivers have complained about more traffic in Miami Lakes during drop-off and pickup times. What's the solution? Amy Diaz Miami Lakes Owner, FH Fashion House     “As I currently sit in school traffic for drop off myself, I just don’t know what we can do to alleviate it given most of these streets are one lane streets,” Amy Diaz...

    What’s wrong with this picture?  Actually, nothing!       Dave Gergely, golf sales coordinator at Shula’s Golf Club, at left, and Anthony Artiles, general manager of Shula’s Athletic Club, have swapped their usual workout gear to show that members of one club are welcome to join the other, and can enjoy discounted rates.      The special is being offered...

     Martha Jane Cannon Toms was an elegant and proper Southern lady who was not above cooking a hairy feral hog that her son Tommy Toms once brought home after a hunting trip.      Called Mango because she was so sweet, Toms was 96 when she died from natural causes on Sept. 2 at the Southwest Ranches home of her daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth and Bill Brinegar.      Ernest Graham,...

     Monsignor Edward Pace High School Class of 2014 alumnus Nicholas Fernández is pursuing a degree at Yale Law School this fall, the high school said.      Fernandez, formerly of Miami Lakes, was a National Merit Scholar, Student Government Executive Board president and editor-in-chief of the “Torch” yearbook while at Pace. He has returned to campus to teach world history.    ...

     A new school year calls for a new home. The Bob Graham Education Center and Bob Graham  Primary Learning Center, both in Miami Lakes, welcomed a new assistant principal to the Primary Learning Center’s staff.  Jenel Romero, formerly a magnet teacher for a decade at Miami Lakes Middle School, is the new assistant principal at the Bob Graham Primary Learning Center, at 8875 NW 143rd St.     The...