Oliver, a 2-year-old Goldendoodle and Luna, 5, a Dachshund-Terrier mix, live in Miami Lakes with the Delgado family.      “I like to refer to them as Tom and Jerry,” Megan Delgado, 22 said about her pets. “They like to play-hate but at the end of the day, they cuddle.”     The dogs share a West Lake home with Megan and her brothers Ryan, 19, Justin, 17, and their parents,...

Meet Milo! He is a 7-year-old Jack Russell Terrier mix who was adopted as a puppy from a county animal shelter by Aimee Garces and three generations of the Garces and Aguirre family in Miami Lakes.       “He’s been very supportive during COVID,” Aimee Garces said. “He’s been very well behaved. It may benefit him to have so much time with us, but it really benefits us because of all the...

     Rachel Autler, principal at Hialeah Gardens Elementary School, has been named the 2020-2021 Principal of the Year for the North Region Office of Miami-Dade County Schools.      “I am ecstatic about receiving this accolade,” said Autler.            She has led the school, at 9702 NW 130th St., for the past six years and was...

  Spanish Lake Elementary School has chosen its top teachers for the 2020 - 2021 school year.      Teresa E. Murphy is Teacher of the Year and on Feb. 4 she was named the 2022 Francisco R. Walker Teacher of the Year. Murphy teaches 4th graders multiple subjects:  Reading/language arts; Math, Science and Social Studies.      She has been in classrooms since 1993 and at Spanish Lake...

Miami Lakes Middle School sweetened their Teacher of the Year and Rookie Teacher of the Year awards with some Krispy Kreme doughnuts.       The Teacher of the Year is Edvore Joseph, who has 18 years’ experience at the school.       He teaches Algebra and Geometry to 7th and 8th graders.     Rookie Teacher of the Year is Jesse Dominguez.     ...