American High’s baseball team is two wins away from its first state title after the Patriots captured the Regional 4-7A Championship last week with a 2-0 win over Palm Beach Gardens Dwyer.  American plays either Tallahassee’s Chiles or Oviedo in the state semifinal on Friday, May 16 at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers. The Patriots (24-5) will pick up where they left off last year, when they were shut out, 6-0, by Plant...

  In honor of National Arbor Day, the Town of Miami Lakes held an Arbor Day Celebration on April 25 to commemorate the town’s tree canopy and to recognize the importance of planting trees in the community. As part of the event at Miami Lakes Picnic Park West, a Live Oak tree was planted by Mayor Wayne Slaton and Town Council members. Girl Scout Troop 263 participated in the event by reading a tree poem, and the town’s...

  It was at the bottom of the pile of college letters. When Miami Lakes resident and Monsignor Edward Pace senior Nicholas Fernandez opened the envelope, he joined an exclusive group of students that have been honored as a National Merit Scholarship Program recipient. The National Merit Scholarship Program is a well-known academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. High school students enter the...

 

Bob Graham Education Center’s Bobcat dancers held their fourth annual end-of-the-year recital on Saturday, May 3. This year's theme was Dancing Through the Decades: 70's, 80's, 90's and Now! The program was composed of 30 numbers which were all choreographed by Mayri Martinez, dance teacher, along with her dance captains and officers. 

  It has been a little over ten years since Miami Lakes Middle School's Legal Department Head, Lisa DeYarza, first created the Legal Studies Magnet Program and led the founding class to first place in their first Project Citizen competition. Since then, DeYarza and her students have gone on to win multiple awards in various civic competitions including Project Citizen, Model United Nations, and District Mock Trial Competitions. Despite...