From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Fifteen Cars Vandalized Overnight In Pembroke Park

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Share + Jun 30, 2010 5:49 pm US/Eastern PEMBROKE PINES Vandals struck overnight in a Pembroke Park apartment complex busting into at least 16 cars.

June 30, 2010

Robbers strike banks in Pembroke Pines, Miramar

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Incidents don’t appear to be related, police say

Two banks in Pembroke Pines and Miramar were struck by robbers Wednesday, but the incidents don’t appear to be related, police said.


June 30, 2010

Pho 78 Vietnamese Kitchen Opens in Sunrise

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Mark down another Vietnamese restaurant in West Broward to try. Pho 78, the second location of the Pembroke Pines-based eatery, is now open in Sunrise.

June 29, 2010

Broward College ceremony honors graduates in foster care

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Douglas Hall used to wake up at 4 a.m. some days to trek to high school on Broward County ’s public transit system.


June 27, 2010

Embattled BP station owners seek help

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Tension is mounting between BP and the neighborhood retailers that sell its gasoline.

June 27, 2010

Investigators asking Cuba for help to ID burned bodies

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Dinorah Perry is on a quest to identify buried bodies from decades past, and is asking Cuban President Raul Castro to help.

June 25, 2010

Procacci inks deal with Keiser University

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Boca Raton-based Procacci Development Corp . has signed a lease with Keiser University at a new 90,000-square-foot, build-to-suit facility in Airport West.

June 25, 2010

Charter Central blows whistle on toy train show

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Richard Hudson wants to design the trains of the future.


June 25, 2010

Mayor delivers meals-on-wheels for senior residents

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When her grandmother Anna McGregor came down with abdominal bursitis, Debbie Tripp took a nine-month leave of absence.


June 25, 2010

KAPOW gives kids edge in firefighting career

Sun Sentinel

Anthony Madera is crawling through a pitch-black maze, down a wood-paneled crawlspace the size of a heating duct. He needed to escape.


June 25, 2010

Kids to enjoy freebies, samples galore at Mayor’s event

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At least on June 25, kids can forget all about the doldrums of summer.


June 25, 2010

Local golf: Naples’ Celano qualifies for Junior PGA Championship

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Naples’ Ryan Celano has qualified for the 35th Junior PGA Championship by winning the South Florida PGA Junior Championship on Wednesday at Boca West Country Club in Boca Raton.

June 23, 2010

Quickie’s Burgers & Wings: Fast Food, but Good

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Quickie’s Burgers & Wings, 1000 S. State Road 7, Hollywood , and 2010 N. Flamingo Road, Pembroke Pines .

June 22, 2010

TD Wood closes $3.6M financing

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Thomas D. Wood and Company, a Strategic Alliance Mortgage LLC member, secured financing in the amount of $3,600,000 for Pembroke Place North Plaza in Pembroke Pines.

June 22, 2010

Puppy dealers, in court Tuesday, face possible fine

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A final ruling is expected Tuesday in the case of puppy dealers Jim and Gilda Anderson, onetime owners of the shuttered Wizard of Claws pet store.

June 22, 2010

Hudson’s choice

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This is how change really happens. Not with legislation or orders or proclamations.

June 22, 2010

22 candidates seeking six Broward School Board seats

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The race for the Broward School Board should prove particularly interesting this election season as two of the nine seats, vacated by incuments, are wide open and a third is occupied by a placeholder.

June 21, 2010

Pines’ pro-labor mayor wanted to outsource city jobs

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His tenacity as a top labor leader has won Mayor Frank Ortis crucial support from employee unions that has all but guaranteed his re-election over the last 14 years.


June 20, 2010

Pines seniors, students participate in time capsule project

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Residents from Miami Jewish Health Systems’ Douglas Gardens North, a senior living community in Pembroke Pines, and students from Pembroke Pines Charter Elementary School-East celebrated Older Americans Month on May 27 by burying time capsules.


June 19, 2010

Pembroke Pines center for abused, neglected children perseveres despite decreased funding

Sun Sentinel

Children’s Harbor is pushing forward with its programs despite a tough economic environment.


June 18, 2010