Sarah smiled Wednesday. The 32-year-old daughter of former Palmetto Bay mayor Shelley Stanczyk was still in intensive care recovery Wednesday after undergoing six hours of surgery for a liver transplant Monday to save her life. She has been stable since the surgery and awake and alert since Monday evening, her mother said posted on Facebook, adding that […]
Former Palmetto Bay Mayor Shelley Stanczyk‘s daughter is critically ill and awaiting a liver transplant in Wisconsin. Sarah Stanczyk, 32, a Coral Reef High grad (class of 2001) and University of Miami grad (B.A.) was going for her PhD at NSU, where she got her master’s in international security, when she fell ill. She is now […]
Sure, there was some big football game, I hear. But this week was marked mostly by races — a runoff in Palmetto Bay and the NASCAR races at Homestead-Miami Speedway, a three-day speed fest that ended with the championship Sunday night. Both are very competitive sports. In Palmetto Bay, where the former founding Mayor Eugene […]
Our returned weekly feature is heavy today with political photos from the field on the Super Bowl for politicians and political beings alike: Election Day. Blessed with some beautiful weather, thousands of people voted on Tuesday, adding to absentee ballots and early voters that cast a total of 529,867 ballots — which is a whopping […]
We’ve seen some local political comebacks, lately. Founding Miami Lakes Mayor Wayne Slaton returned to office last year after the former mayor was arrested on bribery charges. Former Homestead Councilman Jeff Porter was elected mayor in that southern city last year after that mayor was arrested on other public corruption charges. In 2011, former Miami […]