Second Annual Margate Academic Scholarship Program Deadline Nears
The application deadline is Friday, June 28 at 6 p.m. for the 2nd Annual Margate Academic Scholarship Program created by The City of Margate in partnership with Waste Management. One female and one male applicant will be chosen to each receive a one‐time $2,500 scholarship for demonstrating excellence in the classroom and in the community. [...]
#Broward Fourth of July Events in 2013 – Fireworks, food fun and more!!
This is an ongoing list of Fourth of July events in Broward. Additional events will be added as information is provided. Email events to [email protected] Please scroll down and share on Facebook, Twitter and more!! Coral Springs Join the City’s annual Fourth of July celebration at 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 4 at Mullins Park. [...]
MARGATE CITY COMMISSION CREATES A CHARTER REVIEW COMMITEE
MARGATE, FL – (May 16, 2013) – The Margate City Commission, has created a Charter Review Committee (“Committee)” to review the terms and provisions within the City Charter. The Committee will be tasked with considering whether any part of the forty-two page City Charter, consisting of ten articles and sixty-one sections, needs to be amended. [...]
Tons of events at #Broward Parks in June
Saturday, June 1 GUIDED NATURE WALK Secret Woods Nature Center (Dania Beach) For all ages 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Free. A naturalist-led walk at the nature center. Please call for details and preregistration. For more information, call the nature center at 954-357-8884. Accessible from Broward County Transit Route #6. PUBLIC [...]
Round-up of summer camps in #Broward County
Camps will be added on a regular basis. Broward County Coconut Creek Summer camps begin on Monday, June 17 and end on Friday, August 9 Three programs are available: Summer Day Camp is offered at the Community Center (1100 Lyons Road) and at the Recreation Complex (4455 Sol Press Blvd.). Summer Sports Camp is offered at Sabal Pines Park (5005 [...]
Huntin’ for bullseye snakeheads in #Margate
The hunt resumes for Margate’s most notorious canal dweller, the bullseye snakehead common to area waterways. Snakehead Round-ups start next Saturday and run monthly through September at the Margate Marina (Veterans Memorial Park) 7044 N.W. 1 Street. In March, biologist Kelly Gestring pulled a record-size bullseye snakehead out of the C-14 Canal in Margate. Weighing [...]
Margate likely to Join County in E911
A move that could save the City $2 million annually in apparatus and manpower, Margate will decide in coming months whether it wants to join a countywide emergency dispatch system that aims to cure delayed, dropped or misdirected emergency calls for help. The system was overwhelmingly approved by Broward voters in 2002 in response to [...]
@BrowardSchools Top African American Scholars Earn National Achievement Scholarships
Seven outstanding Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) seniors were named National Achievement Scholarship winners and will receive a $2,500 scholarship for their undergraduate studies. Each year, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation awards scholarships to African American students who have excelled in academics and have demonstrated the potential for academic success in college. This year, approximately [...]
Broward County Commission Holds Budget Workshop Beginning today; watch online
The first of four Broward County budget workshops begins tomorrow, April 16, at 10 a.m. in Room 430 of the Governmental Center, 115 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Broward County Commissioners will receive updated budget outlooks for Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14). The agenda includes presentations on the proposed FY14 Aviation and Port Everglades operating budgets [...]
Margate Residents Say $9 Million Wastewater Project is Waste of Money
In response to Margate residents voicing concerns over the grand expenditure, the Margate Department of Environmental Engineering is holding a workshop Wednesday, April 17 to reveal details on the city’s water reuse project already in progress. In the planning stages since 2008, Margate broke ground on the water reuse project two years ago. The reuse [...]
