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Last month’s Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) meeting was, at best, disappointing. The TPO, made-up of Miami-Dade County Commissioners plus local elected officials, convened on July 19 to review and vote on a locally preferred mode of transit for the South Dade Corridor.

Homestead government held three public hearings on Monday August 6 to qualify for state money to apply to Losner Park improvements.

After beginning their high school careers at different schools, brothers Marvin and Marcus Strong enter their senior years as teammates at Southridge.

Guy Grace, a school-security official whose Colorado community was rocked by the 1999 murders at Columbine High School, shared school-hardening solutions Wednesday with a commission formed after this year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Due to hurricane cleanup operations in canals throughout Monroe County, contractors will use temporary staging sites for debris collection across Monroe County, including Rowell’s Waterfront Park in the Upper Keys. This will require the park to close in mid-August (sometime after August 12). County Officials expect operations to continue 7-8 months.

Mayors Dan Gelber, Francis Suarez, Carlos Gimenez, Melissa McKinlay, and Jeri Muoio, in partnership with 100 Resilient Cities - Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation (100RC), Columbia University’s Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes (CRCL), and The Miami Foundation announced the selection of five projects to join the Resilience Accelerator. In response to urgent urban challenges facing Greater Miami and the Palm Beaches, the partners have launched this work via a convening of multi-disciplinary expertise.

In a boisterous political rally held in Florida’s largest media market, President Donald Trump on Tuesday thrust his outsized persona into the middle of Florida’s governor’s race, with a full-throated endorsement of U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis.

OK Feed Store was established in South Miami in 1926. In 1983 it opened its doors at 22801 Krome Avenue.

Richard Accursio understood hard work and the willingness to take a risk. The large Italian family with roots in Sicily embraced the American dream and set about achieving it on different paths. At only sixteen, Accursio became a busboy at the famous Coconut Grove restaurant/supper Club in Boston. He paid attention to the kitchen and chefs though, picking up ideas. What he nor anyone else expected was the tragic fire that broke out November 28, 1942 when almost 500 people perished, and more than 150 were injured. Ironically, what he had been expecting was to be called up in the draft for World War II. His time as a soldier was delayed since he was required to be a witness in the trial that followed numerous investigations. It was not as if he missed out on action, however, as one of the units he was assigned to was among those who helped bring relief to the American and Allied troops surrounded in the infamous Battle of the Bulge.