Jim Hamilton  Owner, Miami Lakes Sports Shop  Miami Lakes       “I’m always excited on opening day,” Jim Hamilton said. “Expectations are the highest in the beginning.”  Mike Dentes  Freight Forward Logistics  Miami Lakes      “Yeah of course,” Mike Dentes said. “Usually in my case I play Fantasy...

     Adriana Kruger loves cats.       “When they die, we suffer,” she said.       For a while, she and her husband Robert Kruger had a cat that lived outdoors, but when they returned from a vacation he was gone.       “I missed him, and I wanted another cat,” she said.      She was in luck: A neighbor’s cat had a...

Miami Lakes Mayor Josh Dieguez held the first Morning with Medics on Feb. 19 at Vanilla Espresso French Café.  The event welcomes residents to meet paramedics from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue to chat and learn more about the department and what its firefighters do, as well as the community outreach the department does around Miami-Dade County.  The concept is modeled on Coffee with a Cop events that are held in town. In the photo,...

  Dr. Maidelys Oliva of Olive Tree Pediatric Dentistry at 7920 NW 154th St. cut a ribbon at her new practice on March 11.       “As a resident of Miami Lakes, it’s an honor to serve the pediatric needs of our town,” Oliva said. She was joined at the ceremony by town officials, relatives, friends and members of the business community. “It’s an office that will make your kids and...

     A boy riding his bicycle along Fairway Drive on a Thursday afternoon slowed as he approached a crowd that included Dr. Ruth Schobel.      He said hello to his pediatrician, and she told him she was glad he was wearing a helmet.      After practicing medicine for four decades, Schobel was still dispensing health care advice.      The group of friends, patients,...