By Kristen Hernandez Villij News was on the scene of a shooting that occurred around 10:30 a.m. Thursday in an apartment building located at 300 SE 11th Avenue in Pompano Beach. Earlier that morning at around 7:30 a.m. neighbors heard an escalating argument between a man and woman that live on the third floor, which
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Pompano Beach Press Release The City of Pompano Beach is now a Florida Ready to Work proctor location for its residents providing training and credentialing of the foundational and transferable employability skills required for most jobs in Florida. The training is self-directed, self-paced, and accessible from any computer or tablet, any place, anytime, 24/7. This
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“Where are our community leaders?” residents ask. By Kristen Hernandez Pompano Beach – Dayvon Johnson dreamed of owning his own business, this way eventually he would be able to provide a stable future for his fiancé, Karina, and his four young children, ages 16, 10, 6 and 2. Johnson began classes to pursue his goal
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On Sunday, February 26, a hail of gunfire took the lives of two people at a local convenience store, and injured two more. At 9:01 p.m. Sunday night, a barrage of gunshots turned the little brown convenience store at 401 N.W. 27th Avenue in Pompano Beach to a crime scene. The shooting is described as
Continue ReadingProgress in Pompano Project Called Out by Concerned Citizens, Again By Kristen Hernandez The traffic on Atlantic Blvd. is a nightmare, residents say. Frustrated residents spoke up during the January 24 Pompano Beach city commission meeting, opposing the city’s beautification project for the Atlantic Blvd. and Dixie Hwy intersection. It doesn’t matter that voters helped
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