Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid was the guest speaker at the 2019 Dan Marino Foundation Campus graduation ceremony at Miami Lakes Educational Center. The program provides post-secondary education for young adults with autism and other development disabilities. Cid said he had the pleasure of meeting Haley Moss (pictured here), who’s the first openly autistic female attorney in the state of Florida. “She’s an incredible inspiration to all,” Cid said.

The Main Street Players located at 6766 Main Street presents the fourth show of its 2019 season, Men On Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus. Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. Men On Boats is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River. The show is directed by Danny Nieves, and the production manager is Patty Fernandez.The cast...

Danny Price, head coach at Miami Dade College Baseball, will not be returning to the Shark’s dugout according to athletic director Anthony Fiorenza.Price is rerouting his career as a head coach. He is the winningest coach in program history at Florida international University boasting an overall record of 1086-597 in his 28 years at the helm with the Golden Panthers. Price has recorded 298-160, crowned Southern Conference champions four...

Gabrielle Rains earned Second-Team All-American honors in her first appearance at the NCAA Outdoor Championships taking 13th in the discus in Austin, Texas while Clasrissa Cutliff’s decorated career as an FIU Panther came to a conclusion in the high jump. Rains, a junior, threw 54.43m in the discus, the second best mark of her career. In qualifying for nationals, Rains threw her personal best of 56.90m at the NCAA East Preliminaries.The...

St. Thomas University head baseball coach Jorge Perez has been named as a 2019 ABCA/Diamond NAIA Regional Coach of the Year for the third time in his career following the Bobcats’ second consecutive Avista NAIA World Series run.Perez, who is also St. Thomas University’s athletic director, guided the Bobcats to the program’s seventh World Series appearance, third-in-five seasons, and to its second National Runner-Up finish in school history...