Call it pandemic fashion, the face coverings we wear to protect ourselves, our families, friends and neighbors from the COVID-19 virus.  What kind of mask do you wear? Send a selfie to LindaT@MiamiLaker.com.  Photos by Linda Trischitta, The Miami Laker.

     Town leaders greeted the new franchise owners of Express Employment Professionals on Aug. 17 at the company’s offices in Miami Lakes.  Shown above left to right are:  Fred Senra, president of the Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce; Edward Pidermann, Miami Lakes town manager;  Jorge Alvarez, chair of the Miami Lakes Economic Development Committee; former Co-Owners of Express Employment Professionals and...

    What’s wrong with this picture?  Actually, nothing!       Dave Gergely, golf sales coordinator at Shula’s Golf Club, at left, and Anthony Artiles, general manager of Shula’s Athletic Club, have swapped their usual workout gear to show that members of one club are welcome to join the other, and can enjoy discounted rates.      The special is being offered...

     Martha Jane Cannon Toms was an elegant and proper Southern lady who was not above cooking a hairy feral hog that her son Tommy Toms once brought home after a hunting trip.      Called Mango because she was so sweet, Toms was 96 when she died from natural causes on Sept. 2 at the Southwest Ranches home of her daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth and Bill Brinegar.      Ernest Graham,...

     Monsignor Edward Pace High School Class of 2014 alumnus Nicholas Fernández is pursuing a degree at Yale Law School this fall, the high school said.      Fernandez, formerly of Miami Lakes, was a National Merit Scholar, Student Government Executive Board president and editor-in-chief of the “Torch” yearbook while at Pace. He has returned to campus to teach world history.    ...