The Annual Holiday Boat Parade & Canned Food Drive took place on December 15, its third year now, and donated a lot of food to the Village’s Holiday Food Drive. Kudos to the Palmetto Bay Canal Association and all the caring folks who gave canned goods and other foodstuffs for the cause. The boat parade [...]
“Is there still a law about sending out notices, posting them or putting them in a newspaper?” asks (WK Mayor) Martha Backer. “When there’s a Community Council meeting, I see it in the Neighbors section but where else is it sent? “And since people aren’t reading handson papers that much anymore, is there some other [...]
Holiday shopping? Here’s something to keep in mind. Although the ‘Small Business Saturday’ on November 24, which followed on the heels of ‘Black Friday’ the day after Thanksgiving, was a one day event sponsored by American Express in many cities across the country, the idea behind it is worth remembering the rest of the year [...]
Guess that congratulations are in order for our newly appointed “interim” city manager, Steve Alexander. Not sure what the heck “interim” is really supposed to mean, but heck, our esteemed elected leaders made their choice. (See page 8 for more great stuff on Steve Alexander.) This “interim’’ manager was chosen over at least two [...]
A four-page letter signed by former City of Miami Police Chief Kenneth Harms sharply criticizes South Miami Mayor Phillip Stoddard and concludes by encouraging him to “step down” from office. Stoddard claims the chief’s letter is “another attempted smear job” by South Miami Police Chief Orlando Martinez “and his pals” Commissioners Valerie Newman and Harms. [...]
In what was his next-to-last official act Nov. 19 before retiring as Miami-Dade Chairman and District 11 Commissioner, Joe Martinez along with Parks Department VIPS opened Plaza Colombia at Westwind Lakes Park, 6805 SW 152 Avenue, at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 19. Plaza Colombia is the result of a parks partnership with the Colombian American [...]
Well, folks, the results of the run-off election in Palmetto Bay were announced on the village website just before our deadline time for this issue, and there will be some new faces on the council at the next meeting. Out of 16,312 registered voters only 4,166 cast ballots in the run-off, which is just a [...]
We said this would happen. Hector Mirabile was terminated from his job as City Manager of South Miami. Unfortunately for the good residents of the City of Un- Pleasant Living, this move put forward by Mayor Stoddard and supported by City Commissioners Welsh and Harris, leaves the City not only high and dry but totally-wrecked [...]
Great to see Pets Trust getting a sound endorsement from Miami-Dade County voters. Credit Calusa Park’s Michael Rosenberg and his team for their ninemonth campaign to accomplish a job many dedicated animal rescuers figured would be useless after years of their unsuccessful appeals to expand Animal Services. Now attracting nationwide attention, passage of the proposal [...]
Incumbent Vice Mayor Ernie Sochin, who had served first as the councilman for Seat 2 since the town incorporated and then as the town’s vice mayor won reelection in the November 6 Cutler Bay race by getting 7,985 votes to challenger Ed Wolmers’s 3,423 votes. That’s roughly 70 percent of the 11,408 folks who turned [...]
Betcha by the time you read this, that the city manager, Hector Mirabile will be gone and the Chief of Police Orlando Martinez de Castro will just about be out as well. Just one more disgrace brought to you by the elected morons over at city hall. The bickering, the back stabbing and all the [...]
Traffic woes... Most of you know by now of the FDOT (Florida Department of Transportation) construction work that is going on along US1 in Palmetto Bay from SW 136th Street to SW 168th Street, involving drainage work, replacing sidewalks, curbs, gutters and whatnot. Some lanes will be closed, some will be open, and although some [...]
Ran into two very happy ladies the other day at Deli Lane… these two South Miami Hospital staffers, Cristi Stiltner-Angulo and Aleida Hernandez, were singing the praises of working at THE #1 hospital in South Florida and of Lincoln Mendez, the hospital’s CEO. It’s quite the honor for the hospital’s staff and patients, as well [...]
After relocation to South Florida in 1991, former Councilwoman and now candidate for Doral City Council Seat 1, Sandra Ruiz, has resided with her family in the Doral area since 1997. With a lifetime of community involvement and public service, she traces her public service “from humble beginnings” during Rotary Club International’s Interact Club activity [...]
