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O’Connell & Goldberg (O&G) public relations has named Courtney Heffernan Mimmo O&G’s social media director. Mimmo will oversee digital media efforts for the agency and its clients as well as guide enhancements to the firm’s social media branding strategies. A marketing manager with extensive regional and national client experience, Mimmo previously served as digital client [...]
The Stronach Group is pleased to announce that Tom Ludt has agreed to join the Company as Senior Vice President of the Racing and Gaming Group. Tom has been the President of Vinery Farm since 2004, where he oversaw the breeding operations Vinery owned in Kentucky, Florida and New York. During his tenure, he recruited [...]
The Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority (MBVCA) is taking technology to new heights and levels with its purchase of a next-generation content management system to serve as an application (App) interface to foster development of Miami Beach-based mobile apps. The Application Programming Interface, or API, allows app developers to take advantage of existing Miami [...]
The Ohio State Buckeyes Softball team (8U age division) won the Howard Palmetto Softball 1 championship. The girls finished the season with a 11-5 record and went on to win all their games in the playoffs,including the championship on Apr. 20. Pictured with their trophies are (l-r, top row) coaches Kristina Picon and Luis Zabala; [...]
Pictured is a group of eighth grade drama students from Palmetto Middle School standing on the Brooklyn Bridge with the storied Manhattan skyline in the background. They are (alphabetically) Salma Atassi, Giovanni Balboa, Brianna Bell, Sarah Berlan, Gabriella Boudani, Suze Bryan, Sean Bunce, Alexis Corradino, Carlos Damian, Priscilla Diaz, Lauren Dutcher, Alexandra Esco, Ruth Ferenczi, [...]
Aventura Marketing Council Board Members (L to R): Stephanie Trump, Acqualina Resort & Spa on the Beach; Ben Launerts, Parksman Parking; Doug Zaren, Memorial Regional Hospital South; Aventura Comm. Enbar Cohen; Jeff Ulm, Association Services of Florida; Dianne Goldenberg, Aventura Hospital and Medical Center; Bob Hollander, Brown & Brown Insurance; AMC Chair Cliff Schulman, Weiss [...]
Interval International employees recently volunteered at the Fruit and Spice Park as part of the company’s annual Community Service Day activities in support of Earth Day. Some 60 Miami-based staff members participated in landscape maintenance projects in various exhibit areas at the public facility, the only tropical botanical garden of its kind in the United [...]
Millionaire May coming to Mardi Gras Casino During the month of May, Mardi Gras Casino Players’ Club members can step into the lap of luxury and become the next millionaire! Every Saturday and Sunday, players can earn 10 points for a chance to win $1 million dollars in the Million Dollar Vault promotion. During [...]
Nestled between the Intracoastal and Turnberry Golf Course, Hamptons South is a quintessential Aventura high-rise; a fivestar luxury condominium community with beautiful ocean, Intracoastal and immaculate green views. “We focus on providing world-class service and amenities in a secure, gated community. Our well-manicured landscape with palm trees, waterfalls and water fountains offers a feeling of [...]
Sun Sports HEAT TV broadcasters and two of South Florida’s leading sports media personalities, Eric Reid and Tony Fiorentino, celebrated the end of the seventh annual Reid & Fiorentino Call Of The Game Dinner & Celebrity Golf Classic presented by SHARP Business Systems, alongside today’s sports icons and philanthropic heroes of the community, with a [...]
The Howard Palmetto Orioles won the Atom 2 Championship on Saturday, Apr. 27, with a convincing 13-2 victory over the Yankees at Suniland Field. This final win was a fitting end to a dominating 21-2 season of youth baseball where the Orioles outscored their opponents by 200 runs during the 18-game regular season. For many [...]
Alex Fernandez is part of a new generation of leadership emerging in the Miami Beach political scene. Passionate about public service, Fernandez works in the Miami Beach Office of the Mayor & Commission as a Deputy to Commissioner Deede Weithorn. Recently he was appointed by Weithorn to serve on the Miami Beach Charter Review [...]
Miami-Dade Police Hammocks District Officer, Jonathan Dweck ,earned, Citizens Advisory Committee(CAC), Officer of the Month ,honors for April ,after he gave lifesaving aid to an elderly man, who suffered a broken arm as well as head and internal injuries when struck by a truck on Krome Avenue on Mar. 3. “All part of our training,” [...]
Officer Diego Serrano (center), who captured a robbery suspect on the run, won honors as Miami-Dade Police Kendall District Officer of the Month from Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) chair Barry White (left) and congratulations of Maj. Christopher Carothers. The presentation was made at the Apr. 24 CAC meeting.Officer Serrano, answering a call within minutes, identified [...]
