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A fast-pitch softball coach with decades of experience at the college level leads the Coral Shores High girls team into Thursday’s season opener in Miami. Lesa Bonee previously served as head softball coach at Nova Southeastern University in Broward County for 13 seasons, compiling a 416-300-1 record. NSU recorded 10 winning seasons under Bonee, which…
Gabby Gutierrez (4th Grade Elementary School Champion) and Pascal Zue Weisberger (7th Grade Middle School Champion) represented Treasure Village Montessori at the 79th Annual Miami Regional Spelling Bee on February 19th. Held at The University of Miami, Gabby and Pascal competed against 164 other school champions from Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties. This was TVM’s first…
MONROE COUNTY, Fla. – Monroe County School District junior and senior division winners will advance on to the state STEM Fair. District officials said there were close to 100 student projects presented at the Regional STEM Fair at Sugarloaf School from across the district representing 14 schools. They worked hard and competed to represent Monroe County…
ISLAMORADA — A “flotilla of cattails” turned stagnant fresh water clear and earned Aiden Pegues the first-place prize for his aquatic project at last week’s Science Fair at Treasure Village Montessori Charter School. Lake Okeechobee water brought in for Pegues’ project “was full of pesticides and fertilizers,” said the eighth-grader. “Sitting there [in above-ground pools],…
Despite a difficult year after Hurricane Irma, Florida Keys schools earned an A rating in the state’s grading system for the first time since 2015. Eighty-one percent of the Monroe County School District’s schools received either an A or B, topping the statewide average of 56 percent. Schools that are in the hardest-hit areas of…
Kayaker sets personal goals and helps students find dreams, too Plans on making Cuba to Key West trip Showing off her “guns” to the students of Tavernier’s Montessori School, Teresa Diehl tells the assembled kids that her arms have not only been propelling her throughout the Keys during recent training for a Cuba to Key…
Debbie Hess didn’t know she had a dormant ability to create. It wasn’t until she took an art class after graduating South Dade Senior High school that her innate ability began to surprise her. She put off art, however, to continue a more fulfilling career as a recreational therapist, helping children with addiction, psychiatric disorders,…
Today we’d like to introduce you to Kelly Mangel. Kelly, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far. I moved to the Keys in 2007. I was previously a teacher in New Jersey. I transitioned Treasure Village Montessori as the Assistant Principal,…