Hundreds of visitors joined 96 exhibitors of classic sports and vintage cars, while examining unique aircraft and memorabilia, during the fifth annual “Wings over Miami” annual Classic Car Show on Oct. 27 at Kendall- Tamiami Executive Airport. The Sunshine Corvette Club, founded in 1977, and South Region of the Antique Car Club of America, chartered [...]
Acontroversial “US1 Express Toll Lane” proposal will be aired during a public Town Hall Meeting at Pinecrest Gardens on Wednesday, Nov. 14. The meeting, to be moderated by former Miami-Dade Commissioner Katy Sorenson, begins at 6 p.m. with an informational reception on Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) plans, followed by a panel discussion from 7 to [...]
Replacing the county’s long-neglected water and sewer system may result in a bonding program costing upwards of $10.9 billion. Miami-Dade’s approximate 14,000 miles of water/sewer lines are seriously in need of repair and replacement, having failed to keep up with the county’s growth since the countywide network was established in 1972, warned Douglas Yoder, Miami-Dade [...]
Michael Rosenberg entered his cage at the Miami-Dade Animal Services Shelter at 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 5, vowing to save every homeless dog brought there during the weekend. During a 55-hour vigil ending at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 7, Rosenberg, who now calls himself “The Man in a Cage,” estimates he saved at [...]
For more than a year, increased fender-benders at an under-construction MDX Shula Expressway (SR 874) interchange at Killian Drive (SW 104th Street) generated criticism from Kendall motorists. Now completed, the new MDX (Miami- Dade Expressway Authority) interchange routing plan seems to be working well. So agrees one of its severest critics, travel agent Doug Kostowski [...]
A $2 million project that began in early October to interconnect nine miles of a planned Greenway Trail in southwest Miami-Dade will create a continuing biking and pedestrian path from Biscayne Bay to West Kendall. The three-phase project will expand the existing 30-year-old Black Creek Trail to a 17-mile route connecting Black Point Park and [...]
The new $31.8 million Academic Support Center at Miami Dade College Kendall, now finishing construction at the northeast corner of the campus, is planned for a Jan. 7 opening. “We are now scheduled to begin operation of services in January for the start of the spring semester,” said Brian Stokes, senior director for campus administration. [...]
The Miami-Dade Public Schools bond issue and establishing a Pets’ Trust to reduce the county’s stray animal population have been endorsed by the Kendall Federation Political Action Committee (KFPAC) on the Nov. 6 ballot. Backing from KFPAC for the $1.2 billion school bond issue was anticipated following a personal appearance by schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho, [...]
Horse Country residents won the first round of another battle in a continuing fight to preserve the area’s pastoral surroundings from commercial development associated with the suburban sprawl of West Kendall. Community Council 11, by a 4-2 vote at its Sept. 27 meeting, denied a land use change to permit development of an eightacre shopping [...]
A fresh look in new surroundings now greets customers of Kendall’s Outback Steakhouse. The familiar Outback logotype is emblazoned on a two-story tower overlooking Mills Drive in the newly remodeled area known as “The Palms.” The plaza-styled retail and entertainment center with inner pedestrian walkways replaced the former Town and Country Mall where new development [...]
The Junior Orange Bowl’s “Sports Ability Games,” inspiring disabled children for 30 years, needs new and strengthened community support, according to two program leaders. Scheduled this year from Nov. 29 through Dec. 1 at three different locations, the event that formerly hosted 500 or more youngsters in swimming, sailing, track and field competitions will likely [...]
A pink bicycle led to the capture of a known violent offender by a quick-working team of Miami-Dade Hammocks District police on Sept. 12.Just moments after an armed robbery at a Farm Store drive-in at 11700 Quail Roost Dr., a five-man team led by Sgt. Ricardo Toledo arrived to learn how the salesperson feared [...]
Candidates in three key races effecting Kendall voters will face off in the last of a series of Town Meeting forums before the Nov. 6 election, sponsored by Kendall Federation of Homeowners Association. The final session of four held during 2012 will take place at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, in Kendall Village Center Civic [...]
AMiami-Dade Police Kendall District officer’s dogged tracking of suspicious actions led to solving a $10,000 burglary during July. For his “astute observation powers and investigative “savvy,” Det. Frank Reynolds was presented the Kendall District’s award as Officer of the Month for August. On July 16, Det. Reynolds on cruiser surveillance spotted a suspect tossing an [...]
