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After two years of hearing about it, the public will now get to see the $50 million exhibit that showcases rain forest animals and plants when it opens Saturday.
Archbishop Coleman Carroll High School students will be running or walking five miles Saturday to raise $5,000 for hurricane victims in their sister school in Haiti. Race 5K to Raise 5K will take place Saturday, at 9:30 a.m. at the high school, 10300 SW 167th Ave.
An uncertain economy has made for a slow start for many toy drives -- ''Unfortunately, I think there are going to be a lot more people looking for toys than giving them,'' said Sunny Isles Beach Police Chief Fred Maas, whose department has only gotten a trickle of toys so far.
The Principal for a Day program is a one-day event that puts business people in the shoes of public school principals. The program aims to develop long-term relationships between educators and local executives.
I believe my neighbors in South Florida really are good at heart, and here is why. Since I have lived in Redland I have heard a lot about the abandoned dogs who roam the farmlands, the ''road warriors'' as one of my new friends calls them.
A national educational program is teaching local high school students how to win at the stock market game.
Girl Scout Troop 1938 learned a lot about home building at a gingerbread house making workshop at the Coral Gables Youth Center. The event was part of the Coral Gables Museum's first gingerbread house contest open now through Dec. 14.
Miami-Dade County's Planning Advisory Board voted 7-3 to recommend that commissioners move the Urban Development Boundary in western Miami-Dade for a new 19,000-person suburb called Parkland.
Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations members encourage West Kendall residents to get involved, especially when it comes to the proposed Parkland development.
More than 300 works of art by students from throughout Miami-Dade will be on display in a new exhibition, The Shapes of Space, now on view at 801 Art Studio, 801 SW Third Ave. in Miami.
The attorneys and staff of Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP put down their legal documents for a day and picked up paintbrushes, shovels and gardening tools to polish the grounds of the Seymour Gelber Senior Day Care Center in Kendall.
Given the nation's newfound awareness over climate change, energy and other environmental issues, South Florida educators say they have witnessed an increased appetite among students and parents to ``go green.''
Students from schools throughout Miami-Dade County were named the September winners of the Do The Right Thing Program, sponsored by the Miami Police Department, British Airways, The Miami Herald and WTVJ-NBC 6.
A Miami-Dade jury has awarded almost $1.2 million to a 21-year-old man hit in the groin by a batting-cage pitch.
As foreclosures slam homeowner associations in Miami-Dade, Florida state Rep. Julio Robaina spoke at Monday's KFHA meeting to promote increased government regulation.
Miami-Dade police have arrested a man who allegedly stole a car with an assault weapon inside and then rammed a police cruiser before trying to escape into a house.
The Roxy Theatre Group is hosting a memorial concert conducted by various Felix Varela Senior High School alumni to honor Miss Tuly Andrea Gonzalez on Thursday, Nov. 13
Almost every weekend, Coral Gables Rotarians meet to help others with community outreach projects. Most recently, they teamed up with young Special Olympians at Bird Bowl for a day of tournament bowling.
In a 5-1 vote, the West Kendall Community Council passed a motion Monday recommending approval of the controversial Lennar led Parkland 2018 development, a 6,841 residential unit community estimated to eventually be the home for 18,000 people in Southwest Miami-Dade.
School officials are asking for feedback on boundary change proposals that would affect two West Miami-Dade middle schools and three area elementary schools.
Sister Marisa Ducote, newly appointed principal of Archbishop Coleman Carroll High, was recently awarded a $25,000 grant from the Jenny Jones Foundation for classroom improvements. Ducote, named one of this year's Jenny's Heroes, plans on using the money for interactive white boards and projectors.
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