Jose Marti MAST Academy (JMMA) has been ranked as number 85 in the top high school national rankings for best high schools, according to the U.S. News. In addition to earning a gold medal, the school is also ranked as the twelfth best high school in Florida.  “As the principal of Jose Marti MAST 6-12 Academy, I am very proud to have been ranked so highly by a fully independent organization such as the U.S. News and World...

  Valeria Bula, a junior in Miami Lakes Educational Center’s (MLEC) Cambridge Journalism Program, was selected to three summer programs. She was selected to an MIT Engineering Outreach Program. She was one of 52 students selected nationwide to live and study at MIT for 6 weeks and take college courses ranging from architecture and humanities to physics, computer science and calculus.  Bula was accepted to the South Central...

  Two students from Monsignor Edward Pace High School (Pace) spent a few days of their break traveling to Boston for the Congress of Future Medical Leaders. Pace junior and Miami Lakes resident Diana Cao and sophomore Ulysses Del Pino served as delegates for the event which took place June 25 through 27. The congress was created by the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists to help solve the problem that many of...

  Reuven Kanner, the longtime owner of Sir Speedy Printers in Miami Lakes, died peacefully on Sunday, July 1. Kanner was born in 1943 in Focsani, Romania. The younger of two children, he grew up in the countryside where his father, Nathan, was the village dentist, and his mother, Miriam, was devoted to him and his sister Rene. As a teenager, he emigrated with his father and sister to Israel where he served in the Israeli Army in both...

Miami Lakes residents Pedro and Zenaida Fiallo celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary on July 1. The Fiallos have been blessed with two children and four grandchildren. They consider themselves very privileged to live in the Town of Miami Lakes, and seeing how it’s grown and progressed with their family in the last 20 years.  Pedro Fiallo is a veteran and an active member of the Veterans Committee of Miami Lakes and the American...