White tablecloths, red roses and a wine cellar stocked with about 1,000 bottles at La Strega Cucina Italiana & Steakhouse may suggest the upscale Miami Lakes restaurant caters to a mature crowd.       But owner Milena Salazar lights up as she talks about some of her more diminutive diners, and says children are welcome, too.       Salazar is not worried about kids marking...

     Adriana Schwinghammer is about to retire from a job where her sole reward is the gratification of a job well done.       And she’s been at it – as a volunteer at Miami Lakes K-8 Center  – for two decades.       Schwinghammer, 52, of Miami Lakes -- the mother of Broderick, 25, Chloe, 22, and Aiden, 14, with her husband Sean Schwinghammer – has...

The Northwest 170 Street bridge that crosses Interstate 75 and connects Hialeah and Miami Lakes could be open to traffic within weeks. Without much fanfare, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved an agreement Tuesday between the county, city and town regarding that span and the bridge at Northwest 154th Street. The memorandum of understanding was signed after years of acrimony and resistance from...

     The Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce has scheduled its next luncheon for Wednesday, May 11 at the Miami Lakes Hotel on Main.      The guest speaker is Annette Hungler, program manager for the Humanities, Health and Society at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University in Miami.      A Miami Laker, Hungler is an expert in sales and marketing management,...

Emilio Ruiz, Market outreach, training specialist, JetStream Federal Credit Union Miami Lakes        “Anyone who has this ability to be caring and nurturing and caring for everyone, it’s not necessarily in the form of a mother, but it can be a parent or a grandparent,” Emilio Ruiz said.  “[For me it was] my grandmother. The love that was being offered was...