Painting With A Twist, the bring-your-own-beverage painting studio that encourages amateur artists to tackle famous paintings with the help of a teacher, is coming to Miami Lakes. The four partners who franchised Painting With A Twist, Yirka and Alex Marban, Ignacio Menendez and Yaime Riveiro are surprisingly not artists, but all enjoyed taking classes at Painting With A Twist and hoped to open their own. Their dream was realized with the...

  For the sixth consecutive year JetStream Federal Credit Union partnered with The Early Development of Global Education (EDGE) Charitable Foundation for an annual toy drive. The toys collected at all of the JetStream branch locations were delivered by The EDGE to migrant families and children victimized by domestic abuse and human trafficking in South Florida. “The annual toy drive impacts many economically disadvantaged families...

  Miami Lakes Mayor Wayne Slaton and Town Manager Alex Rey joined Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez and the Beacon Council on December 10 in recognizing two of the town’s local businesses - Sweepy Group Products and Cummins Power South, LLC. The two companies were among 39 companies honored for establishing or expanding operations in Miami-Dade County during the Beacon Council’s 2014 Key Ceremony and Holiday...

  Pills Plus, Inc., a pharmacy service first established in Miami Lakes at 7801 N.W. 146 Street in mid-2009, is celebrating the recent accomplishment of pharmacy owner, Ines Gomez, who received her Juris Doctor degree from St. Thomas University. Gomez first received her bachelors of science in Paralegal Studies from Nova Southeastern University and in addition to owning Pills Plus Pharmacy, run by her mother Rosario Lopez as general...

Miami Lakes Town Council voted at the December regular meeting to join the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program. The PACE Program provides upfront financing for energy conservation and efficiency (i.e. energy-efficient heating, cooling, or ventilation systems), renewal energy (i.e. solar panels), Wind resistance (i.e. impact resistant windows) and other improvements. Through these improvements, residents and business property owners...