Browse past news stories for Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach, FL.

• Pompano gears up for annual Yuletide Parade (Pompano Forum)
  posted on November 26, 2009 at 08:20:34 am
  Final preparations have begun to ensure that Pompano Beach's annual Yuletide Parade continues to serve as a festive start to the holiday season.
• Teen thanks school staff for saving his life (7 News Miami)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 12:55:02 pm
  SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. (WSVN) -- A South Florida teenager is saying thank you to the people who saved his life. Joseph Saintelus, 14, reunited with the people who performed CPR on him three weeks ago in gym class.
• Teen who had heart attack to leave hospital today (Sun-Sentinel)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 04:19:08 am
  14-year-old Ely High School freshman collapsed while playing basketball in physical education class A Pompano Beach teenager will be home for the holidays after suffering a cardiac arrest while playing basketball at his high school earlier this month. Joseph Saintelus, 14, will likely be released Tuesday from Miami Children's Hospital after he was flown there on Nov. 5.
• Teen Recovers After Cardiac Arrest (Local 10 Miami)
  posted on November 23, 2009 at 09:45:21 pm
  A 14-year-old boy who went into cardiac arrest at school three weeks ago is set to go home from the hospital on Monday afternoon.
• Ely High may get delayed field (Miami Herald)
  posted on November 10, 2009 at 06:02:20 am
  The chain-link fence around a field at Pompano Beach's Blanche Ely High School is the same color as its baseball diamond, a deep, red-brown shade of rust. The dugouts are so antiquated, Ely can't host baseball games. And there's no track around the football gridiron -- only a swath of white asphalt for runners to practice.
• Broward schools have too many seats (Miami Herald)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 06:02:42 am
  For years, the Broward school district continued building new schools even after student enrollment began to drop, knowing the state would soon put the brakes on the school system's construction program.
• Construction moves ahead at 10 Broward schools with 25% empty desks (The Palm Beach Post)
  posted on September 27, 2009 at 02:15:51 pm
  At Lauderdale Manors Elementary School in Fort Lauderdale, 47 percent of the classroom seats are empty. Yet the Broward County School District is spending $7 million to demolish and rebuild 15 classrooms at the 55-year-old school.
• 2 Girls Arrested After School Fight (Local 10 Miami)
  posted on September 23, 2009 at 06:21:33 pm
  Two students were pepper sprayed and arrested after a fight broke out Wednesday at a Pompano Beach high school, according to school board officials.
• Supporters, opponents pack health care town hall with Wexler, Hastings (Sun-Sentinel)
  posted on August 20, 2009 at 04:58:03 pm
  U.S. Reps. Alcee Hastings and Robert Wexler, both Democrats who represent Broward and Palm Beach counties, are due this afternoon at a town hall meeting west of Delray Beach.
• Balfour Beatty Constructions Diverse Portfolio Brings Four Wins in Florida (PR.com)
  posted on August 12, 2009 at 03:52:31 pm
  Balfour Beatty Construction’s diverse portfolio recently brought the company four awards across Florida for projects that promote higher education, high school athletics, infrastructure replacement, and professional arts. These awards include construction management services for Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and Manatee County, design-build services with the School Board of Broward County, ...
• Daniel Lee Roberson (The Valdosta Daily Times)
  posted on July 24, 2009 at 03:25:51 am
  Daniel Lee Roberson was born to the late Robert Lee and Mary Lena Roberson on Dec. 14, 1952 in Vidalia, Ga. He attended Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach, Fla. He later moved to Valdosta where he was a devoted worker for the city of Valdosta for 22 years.
• Northeast principal Scavella resigns (Macon Telegraph)
  posted on June 12, 2009 at 04:02:42 am
  Northeast High School principal Sam Scavella is leaving his job at the end of the month after three years at the school.
• Pompano Beach basketball prodigy climbs the sport's ladder (Miami Herald)
  posted on March 29, 2009 at 07:11:39 am
  The first pair of free sneakers showed up on Kenny Boynton's front porch the summer after eighth grade, right about the time he got his first recruiting letter -- from the University of Florida. Sitting by the door of his Pompano Beach home was a package from Reebok with a letter from the shoe company congratulating the 14-year-old on his basketball success.
• A league of their own (Pensacola News Journal)
  posted on March 5, 2009 at 02:40:14 pm
  LAKELAND — Today, Walter Williams will climb into his seat at the Lakeland Center and marvel at the opportunity given to the Pensacola High Tigers basketball team, an opportunity that was denied to him more than 40 years ago.
• Black hoops Hall-of-Famers marvel at PHS team's opportunity (Pensacola News Journal)
  posted on March 5, 2009 at 06:55:13 am
  Today, PHS' boys basketball team, with a majority of black players, will meet Spring Hill Springstead in a state semifinal game. It's an opportunity Pensacola athletes who never had such a chance will watch with pride.
• First black mayor of Pompano Beach (Miami Herald)
  posted on February 18, 2009 at 08:06:46 am
  E. Pat Larkins, who was born in segregated Pompano Beach and eventually became its first black mayor, has died. He was 66. For the past 15 months, Larkins struggled with a stubborn brain tumor, his family said. He died Saturday, Valentine's Day. He had lost his ability to speak, able only to communicate to loved ones through blinks of the eyes, nods and smiles.
• Pompano Beach mourns E. Pat Larkins, city's first black mayor (Sun-Sentinel)
  posted on February 17, 2009 at 03:46:00 am
  Community mourns longtime city official E. Pat Larkins, who grew up in a segregated Pompano Beach, fought for equal rights and was the city's first African-American mayor, died at home Saturday after a 16-month battle with brain cancer. He was 66.