The Miami Lakes Barber Shop in the Lake Patricia Shopping Center is the town’s oldest place for men and boys to get a haircut.       Its barbers have continuously shorn gent’s locks since the early 1960s.       Owner Richard Ruiz is carrying on the legacy begun by his late uncle Rolando Ruiz, the town’s first barber who died in July 2021.      ...

     The entrance to Miami Lakes Business Park West is near one of the key traffic intersections in town: It begins on Miami Lakes Drive and is very close to the Palmetto Expressway and Interstate 75.     “You’re right at the highway, you get off and we’re the first building on the left,”  Thomas Bartelmo, president and chief executive officer of The Kislak Organization and chief...

     A weekly outdoor gathering that was to begin on Thursday, Jan. 27 and every Thursday night thereafter has been postponed. The event, called Food Trucks + More, is still planned to eventually be held in the municipal parking lot along New Barn Road near Northwest 67th Avenue in Miami Lakes. This report will be updated when organizers finalize their arrangements.      From 5 p.m. - 10 p.m., up to 15...

      Korner 67 restaurant and bar is a casual yet sophisticated new spot on Main Street in Miami Lakes that will take your tastebuds on a global culinary tour.      “We’ve been getting that feedback so often since we opened, ‘Miami Lakes needed a place like this,’” said Samuel Perez Benatar, who co-owns the restaurant alongside his sister, Adriana Perez Benatar and her...

​​     Fred Senra of the Miami Lakes AutoMall is a long-time civic leader in town.  He currently serves as president of the Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce and is vice commander of American Legion Post 144.       He is also a member of the Miami Lakes Planning & Zoning Board, a body he has volunteered with for 11 years and is a former chair and vice chair.  Senra, 75, is also a...