Pembroke Pines

Weekend Preview: Count your blessings with Tony Hawk, Marty McFly, Frances Ha

2013-05-24 07:46:00

There are plenty of “cool” things going on around here this weekend (I have lusted in my heart for “Frances Ha” for, like, weeks), but ever since this Oklahoma business, I have been looking to spend more time with my kids, OK?...

Great Yards contest takes root

2013-05-24 00:00:00

Four Pembroke Pines gardens were the recipient of an award designed to honor a late resident who loved gardening and butterflies. Commissioner Jay Schwartz initiated the process for what would become the Natalie Belmonte Great Yards Award contest, named...

Bulletin Board

2013-05-23 11:51:08

Friday Alzheimer's Family Center Support Group, 10 a.m. at Colony Club, 3799 N. Pine Island Road, Sunrise. Free. Call 954-971-7155. Asian Pacific Heritage Month Celebration, noon to 3 p.m. at Franklin Park, 2501 Franklin Drive, Fort Lauderdale. Free....

Turn in old devices to AT&T and donate value to Cell Phones For Soldiers

2013-05-23 12:19:00

Have an old cell phone or tablet you don’t need anymore and want to help troops? Take it to an AT&T-owned store (not authorized dealer) and request that its trade-in value be donated to Cell Phones For Soldiers, a nonprofit that helps troops...

Frantic housing market recalls boom times in battered Florida

2013-05-23 05:05:03

The open house on a leafy street near South Miami featured a snack wagon with cupcakes and chilled beverages, but the real draw was the newly listed house for sale for $435,000. Over a two-hour stretch on a Sunday afternoon, 44 groups of couples and...

Nonprofit to host food drive for kids this summer

2013-05-22 11:34:00

A local nonprofit is partnering with 15 Walgreens stores for an upcoming food drive. Davie-based HOPE (Helping Other People Everyday) Outreach Center is teaming up with Walgreens stores in Pembroke Pines, Cooper City, Davie, Weston, Southwest Ranches...

Hospitals fare well in recent scorecard

2013-05-21 16:16:00

Broward and Palm Beach county hospitals, like those across the rest of the nation, have received their spring report cards as scored by a nonprofit organization that advocates for safer health-care delivery. Nineteen local hospitals earned A grades,...

'Mr. Motivatr' leaves them laughing

2013-05-21 10:11:51

The monogram on his polo shirt read "Mr. Motivatr." Jacques Wiesel joked that there wasn't space for the "o." Wiesel, who with his family fled Brussels and the Nazis when he was seven years old, had enough brushes with death by the time U.S. troops in...

Angry city manager can laugh all the way to the bank

2013-05-20 16:02:00

Like sports coaches, city managers are hired to get fired. And they usually leave laughing all the way to the bank, like ex-Miramar manager Robert Payton, who quit earlier this year and left with a total benefits package worth $2.4 million. Broward's...

Threatened federal cuts at Boca airport lead to salary debate

2013-05-20 17:34:34

In the wake of a proposed $650,000 federal budget cut that threatened to close the tower at Boca Raton Airport, a battle has erupted around the salary of the airport's manager. In one corner is former City Council member David Freudenberg, who says he...

List of vetoed South Florida budget projects

2013-05-20 17:49:00

Gov. Rick Scott vetoed at least $16 million in South Florida budget projects set aside for Broward and Palm Beach counties. Here's are some of them: $6.5 million for a Palm Beach State College multi-purpose building; $3.6 million for a special...

Bring sports stadiums to Broward and Palm Beach

2013-05-20 05:31:49

Why do they keep pouring money into sports stadiums in Miami when they have such poor attendance? Has it not occurred to anyone that if they would re-locate to Broward County or Palm Beach counties that they would probably fill the stands? We would...

Ciro Jaime Kuang, 48, was arrested and accused of possessing child pornography in Pembroke Pines

2013-05-10 16:19:00

Pembroke Pines Commissioner Angelo Castillo (left) and Plantation Mayor Diane Veltri Bendekovic.

2013-05-10 00:00:00

Julia Dale of Pembroke Pines sings the national anthem before the Miami Heat Chicago Bulls Eastern Conference semifinal game two, Wednesday May 6, 2013, at the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami

2013-05-08 00:00:00