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MIAMI METROZOO

Miami Metrozoo's rain forest exhibit set to open

 
Joe Wasilewski of Natural Selections holds the head of the 16-foot anaconda Mikita, with help from zookeeper Kevin Kopf and Senior Reptile Keeper Adam Stern. The Amazon and Beyond Exhibit at Miami Metrozoo opens to the public Saturday, Dec. 6.

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

    Run/walk in SW Miami-Dade to help storm victims

    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.

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Smiling as they survey a bounty of new toys donated at the Miami Jewish Home and Hospital Douglas Gardens Campus are Michelle Frasier, left; Leslie Geller; and Yvonne Hurlbutt, holding Geller's pooch "Sophie Rose." The toys were collected in a "Toymobile" in MJHHD's annual Thanksgiving Parade & Toy Drive Kickoff.

    MIAMI-DADE

    Toy drives face tough times this season

    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.

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Peggy Sapp of Informed Families and The Florida Family Partnership learned on the job from South Miami K-8 Center Principal Anamarie Moreiras in her recent Principal For a Day experience.

    FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS | By CHRIS MAYO

    Businesswoman fills principal's shoes in South Miami

    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.

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"Old Faithful" was fed and cared for by several kind Redland residents before disappearing, most likely to a new home.

    COMMENTARY

    Redland neighbors give stray dog a happy ending

    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.

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Everyone pays attention as the class plays 'The Stock Market Game' during economics class at Archbishop Coleman Carrol High in Miami.

    ARCHBISHOP COLEMAN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL

    Archbishop Coleman Carroll students learn stock market rules through game

    A national educational program is teaching local high school students how to win at the stock market game.

  • FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS | By CHRIS MAYO

    Girl Scouts take part in gingerbread house contest

    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

    Miami-Dade board backs plan for Everglades suburb

    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.

  • WEST KENDALL

    Citing apathy, Kendall group takes no stance on controversial project

    Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations members encourage West Kendall residents to get involved, especially when it comes to the proposed Parkland development.

  • MIAMI

    Miami-Dade students show artistic side in exhibit

    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.

  • FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS | By CHRIS MAYO

    Law firm helps senior center for a day

    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.

  • MIAMI-DADE

    Miami-Dade County schools endorsing many green initiatives

    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.''

  • MIAMI-DADE

    Skyway Elementary School first-grader, American High senior honored by Do The Right Thing Progam

    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.

  • MIAMI-DADE

    Man hit in groin at batting cage awarded $1.2 million

    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.

  • WEST KENDALL

    In Kendall, Robaina talks about plan to help homeowner associations

    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

    Man arrested after car containing AK-47 is stolen

    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.

  • WEST MIAMI-DADE

    Varela High alumni to put on memorial concert

    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

  • FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS | By CHRIS MAYO

    Rotarians, Special Olympians bowl

    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.

  • SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE

    West Kendall Community Council approves controversial development

    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.

  • WEST MIAMI-DADE

    Miami-Dade weighs boundary changes to West Kendall schools

    School officials are asking for feedback on boundary change proposals that would affect two West Miami-Dade middle schools and three area elementary schools.

  • ARCHBISHOP COLEMAN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL

    Jenny Jones Foundation gives West Kendall school $25,000 for upgrades

    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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