The Women’s Breast & Heart Initiative will host its 8th Annual Pink Walk 5K run and walk on Sept. 22 at Miami Dade College’s North Campus. Runners, walkers, families and friends can help the Women’s Breast & Heart Initiative that is based in Miami Lakes to raise $100,000. The money will go toward the organization's goals: education, screenings and treatment for women, college students and low-income...

Attorney Gloria M. Garcia will host the Lights of Hope display at Miami Lakes Town Hall on Tuesday, Aug. 27 at 6 p.m. The event is to honor and remember those who were taken by the disease as well as pay tribute to those who are fighting it, by displaying bags from donors set up outside of Town Hall. Each bag represents a cancer story, Garcia said.  Lights of Hope is a fundraiser of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action...

The Graham Companies will host a workshop on Aug. 28 at Miami Lakes Town Hall to present its newest development: Lakeside Village, a multifamily rental community that it plans to build on the banks of Graham Dairy Lake. The apartments to be built were originally part of a proposed senior village planned for that site, along Oak Lane at Northwest 146th Street.   After many years of hard work and significant financial investment, the...

Maurits Acosta   Senior at Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School  Student advisor, Miami-Dade County School Board Hialeah   “While I think teachers and the school district should absolutely be able manage screen time and cell phone usage in the classroom, I am not in favor of a cell phone restriction like the one implemented in Broward County,” Maurits Acosta wrote in an...

It’s the rainy season, and recent heavy downpours flooded town streets with excess water that rose toward front doors.  The Town of Miami Lakes is offering teenagers an opportunity to earn community service hours by making sandbags to help protect properties. Kids can volunteer at Royal Oaks Park, 16500 NW 87th Ave. Contact John Paul Yanes, at yanesj@miamilakes-fl.gov.       The sandbags are free to...