It’s time to dust off your helmet, tune up your bicycle and work up an appetite, because the 2nd Annual Miami Lakes Culinary Bike Tour is set for Saturday, Sept. 17.      Riders will leave from Miami Lakes Town Hall at 6 p.m. for a 5-mile trip to the designated dining spots.      Cyclists will visit restaurants in the Lake Katharine, Lake Patricia and Cypress Village shopping...

     Along Northwest 67 Avenue, across from Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Station 1, is Fountain Park Village.       The complex of townhomes were built parallel to the service road for the Palmetto Expressway, or Northwest 167 Street.  The southern side of the property borders the Loch Ness neighborhood.       Arrivals to 6700 - 6998 NW 67th Ave. are greeted by a fountain...

Rene Garcia  Hialeah Miami-Dade County Commissioner      “For me, the first day of school was always very exciting,” Rene Garcia said. “I wasn’t the best student, but I always went to school. I liked to talk a lot.       “The moment that stands out is that first day jitters of going in and trying to figure out what homeroom you were...

The Graham Companies, the Town of Miami Lakes and its Education Advisory Board gave checks of $1,000 each to two college scholarship winners before the Aug. 9 council meeting. Shown from left: Hector Abad, vice chair, Education Advisory Board; Maurits Acosta, student member, Education Advisory Board; Andrea Graham Rechichi, vice president of Corporate Relations, The Graham Companies; student Megan Casal who will attend the University of...

   The Miami Lakes Town Foundation is accepting grant applications from community groups, school clubs or teams or other town organizations that support literacy, continuing education, youth or beautification projects or cultural events.      Up to 20 grants worth up to $2,500 each will be awarded, the foundation said.      The grants are funded from proceeds of the annual Miami Lakes Food...