Speedy PECS teams off to solid starts Sports Top News by Kevin Johnson - January 4, 2019 BRIGHTON — It’s an annual rite of passage: middle school basketball teams say goodbye to their 8th-graders who move on to high school. The replenishing crop that returns the following year can contain plenty of unknowns, but for this year’s Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School boys and girls teams, two things
Ahfachkee girls, boys open basketball season Sports Top News by Kevin Johnson - January 3, 2019 New head coach leads both teams BIG CYPRESS — The Ahfachkee School opened its high school basketball season Dec. 5 with competitive games in a doubleheader against Donahue Academy of Ave Maria, but the Warriors came up short in both games. In the first game, the Ahfachkee girls erased a 20-point deficit
Seminole students sing in Disney’s Candlelight Processional Education Top News by Kevin Johnson - January 3, 2019 Walt Disney World’s Candlelight Processional is a holiday treat whose roots stretch all the way back to the amusement park empire’s infancy in the 1950s. Now, more than half a century later, three Seminole students can say they were part of the annual winter tradition. University School’s Kylie Drake, 14, and sisters
A season of progress for Tiger Youngman, LPHS football Sports Top News by Kevin Johnson - December 11, 2018 LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid High School football season was headed in the wrong direction one month into the season. With a 1-3 record, the possibility of making the playoffs seemed highly unlikely. Determined not to let their season slip away any further, the Green Dragons found their groove and made
Conner Thomas, Andrew Fish wrap up high school football careers Sports Top News by Kevin Johnson - December 11, 2018 Moore Haven finishes with 8-2 record; makes playoffs for second straight year MOORE HAVEN — With college football options on the table for both of them, Conner Thomas and Andrew Fish could be back on the grid iron next fall, but their high school careers at Moore Haven – where the
EIRA competes in Indian National Finals Rodeo Sports Top News by Kevin Johnson - December 11, 2018 A year ago the Eastern Indian Rodeo Association brought back a few first place finishers from the Indian National Finals Rodeo when Jacoby Johns (bareback riding) and Naha Jumper and Josh Jumper (team roping) won the short-go rounds. This year the EIRA came back empty-handed from Las Vegas in October as
Ready to defend Sports Top News by Kevin Johnson - December 11, 2018 After winning its first state title last season, American Heritage preaches defense as the Patriots seek two in a row PLANTATION — American Heritage’s press was so suffocating, unforgiving and overwhelming in its season opener that the Patriots looked like they were already in mid-to-late season form. Heritage used its seemingly impenetrable
All dressed up at Brighton Preschool for Halloween Education Top News by Kevin Johnson - December 3, 2018
Trail Indian Day Community Top News by Kevin Johnson - November 6, 2018November 6, 2018 Trail After a two-year absence, the skinning of a deer made its return to the menu of activities for the Trail Seminole Indian Day on Sept. 16 at the Huggins family camp in Ochopee. No deer was caught for the previous two Indian Days, but Michael Osceola went out in the late