Drowning in Royal Palm Park Shocks The Community

At approximately 7pm Tuesday September 29th, 2020 a BSO helicopter was heard flying above the north side of Royal Palm Park in Oakland Park. In front of the park and in the parking lot were Oakland Park Fire Rescue and several BSO officers. The helicopter, BSO and Fire Rescue were intently looking in the lake […]

An Introduction to Our New Captain of Oakland Park BSO: Tammy McNeal

While the community has been adjusting to changes caused by COVID-19 there is one other change that may have slipped under the radar. This past April, longtime Oakland Park Captain Al Hubrig retired from Broward Sheriff’s Office and passed the reins of leadership to his successor, Tammy McNeal. The pair succeeded in making the transition […]

COVID-19 Hits Close to Home

When we first heard about the Coronavirus it was infecting people in a Chinese city, Wuhan, a city most of us have probably never heard about. Then on January 19, 2020 the first case of the Coronavirus, or COVID-19, was confirmed in Seattle, Washington. After it touched down on the West Coast it quickly spread […]

Why Did The Car Drive Into The House?

Yesterday at approximately 4:00pm, residents of Whispering Lakes in Oakland Hills in west Oakland Park were stunned when a silver Yukon SUV sped through the neighborhood and crashed right in the middle of a house at the end of a cul-de-sac.  Dulce Avila, a 31 year resident of the neighborhood and the City of Oakland […]