Former Hialeah Gardens High basketball standout Gian Clavell recently signed with the Dallas Mavericks after competing for the Miami Heat’s summer league teams in Orlando and Las Vegas.He is the first Hialeah Gardens High alumni to play for an NBA team.The 6-4, 185-pound undrafted rookie from Colorado State University, who was named Mountain West Conference Player of the Year, averaged 12.4 points, 2.6 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 24.6...

Barbara Goleman High School student Noel Hernandez won the Bronze Medal last month at the Pan American U21 Juniors and Cadets Karate Federation Continental Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hernandez competed in the 14-15 Elite Kumite -52kg category, where more than 200 junior athletes, males and females, participated in the annual combat event. Hernandez earned a spot on the junior national team consisting of the best athletes...

Soccer fans in Miami were abuzz with excitement over the highly anticipated El Clásico tournament this summer, but Miami Dade College gave the community even more of a reason to celebrate, thanks to a new partnership with FC Barcelona Foundation, the service arm of the globally popular fútbol club in Spain.Miami will become the second city in the United States to implement FutbolNet, a six-month youth sports program that uses...

Summer, the five-year-old cow who calls Hialeah Gardens Middle School home, was wearing a “mom-to-be” party hat while students, parents, and faculty celebrated her baby shower on school grounds in early September. Hialeah Gardens Middle School (HGMS) houses one of the few agriscience programs in Miami-Dade County wherein students in sixth through eighth grade learn about and care for a host of farm animals including Summer...

The Miami-Dade School Board unanimously approved two items proposed by School Board member Perla Tabares Hantman endorsing October as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month throughout the District, and proclaiming October 15-21 as National Teen Driver Safety Week.“October is dedicated to highlighting the importance of early detection of breast cancer – the second leading cause of cancer death in women, other than skin...