March 5, 2018 As if waiting for the bus isn t bad enough, passengers along South Miami-Dade s Busway are taunted by shabby, neglected bus stops that don t protect them from the rain, don t shield them from the sun and remind them daily that mass transit is an afterthought in a county that desperately needs it. The 56ÃÂ .
On the upstairs floor of the Keys History and Discovery Center in Islamorada is a room available by appointment only to scholars and researchers. The items that occupy the Jerry Wilkinson Research Library vary widely, from cannonballs and ballast stones found in centuries-old shipwrecks to blueprints of the original Overseas Highway.
The nonprofit museumâs curator, Brad Bertelli, a local author and historian, has amassed this collection of items over years of donations and searching through the basements of local collectors and other history buffs. Other items in the museumâs library are archives of the Keynoter and Reporter newspapers, which ceased printing several years ago, dating back to the 1960s; issues of the now-defunct Florida Keys magazine from the 1990s, donated by a former resident now living in Pennsylvania, a manatee rib that dates back a few million years and an enrollment card to Cornell University from spring of 1896 for William Krome, an influential engin
On June 15, Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet are scheduled to review an administrative law judge s March 2020 ruling that found the Dolphin Expressway violated Miami-Dade s comprehensive plan. Cabinet aides will meet on the matter Wednesday.
A 13-mile highway expansion over Everglades wetlands that an administrative law judge found violated Miami-Dade County’s comprehensive plan is back under review.
Staff for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Cabinet will hold a meeting Wednesday to review the ruling ahead of a June 15 Cabinet session, when DeSantis and the three-member Cabinet are scheduled to vote on whether to uphold the judge’s decision or reject it.
Jun. 2 Crews are battling a large brush fire in West Miami-Dade that has enveloped nearly 600 acres. But there is progress: A stretch of Krome Avenue is back open to traffic on Wednesday after it was shut down for days because of surrounding flames and heavy smoke. Krome Avenue was closed from Kendall Drive to Southwest Eighth Street for three days while firefighters worked to control the fire .