John Pacenti | Key Biscayne Independent

Five organizations have put in bids to run Key Biscayne’s Soccer Club, currently a $1.6 million athletic contract that touches 1,000 children and their families, and that dominates precious field space in a community where it seems every youth wants to be the next Messi.

With the dearth of playing fields on Key Biscayne in mind, the Village held meetings with the city of Miami and the Historic Virginia Key Beach Park to develop two pieces of land for youth athletics.

Florida state officials agreed to replace thousands of yards of sand on Key Biscayne after a storm washed part of the beach out to sea earlier this month.

Christophe Pierre Ribot, 52, died on Nov. 6. Ribot established one of the first kiteboarding schools at Crandon Beach Park more than 20 years ago. He trained over 300 instructors and taught some 3,000 students as the sport gained popularity in the region.

The proposed legislation is expected to be filed within days and has been called “Condo 3.0,” following reforms during the last two sessions the focused on making sure another Surfside collapse never occurs again.

Former Miami-Dade Police Director Freddy Ramirez — whose July suicide attempt upended Mayor’s Daniella Levine Cava’s public safety administration — will return to Miami-Dade County government as an advisor, the mayor announced.

University of Miami scientists are using $3 million in federal grant funding to better predict mammoth hurricanes, raging wildfires and increased coastal flooding by using use artificial intelligence.

In Key Biscayne, “motorized scooters and e-bike enforcement” tops the list of priorities for the next coming year in light of three car vs. scooter accidents that happened last month.

The orchestra evolved out of an idea from an environmental educator who wanted to help the children of Cateura – a place where families make a living scavenging trash to resell.

A Central Florida lawmaker falsely claimed support from Key Biscayne’s top official to secure $3 million in taxpayer dollars for a Hispanic chamber of commerce for a storm water technology.

The Village Council handed its manager a major victory, passing a budget that tees up capital projects to address flooding, beach renourishment and other resiliency projects.

The mammal scientist who headed up the effort to transport the whale to a sea pen in Puget Sound insists all precautions were taken to ensure the whale’s health and that her death from renal failure was unexpected.