HistorySerenity Pointe is a quiet, private community on the west side of Miami Lakes.The neighborhood is at 14442 N.W. 87th Court, on the west side of Northwest 87th Avenue between Miami Lakes Drive and Commerce Way.It was built in 1996 and became part of the town when Miami Lakes incorporated in 2000.About 149 families are currently living within its hedge-lined walls, according to the homeowner’s association.“We are a family-oriented...

Town officials were shocked when a hydraulic backhoe dug a ditch and a front-end loader filled the trench with gravel along Northwest 170th Street.The street leads to a closed bridge that the city of Hialeah and Miami-Dade County apparently want to open soon.“They’re doing the work without permits,” Mayor Manny Cid said Oct. 2 as he observed the road work at Northwest 89th Avenue. Cid said the construction partially trespassed on town...

Royal Palm Estates was developed in the late 1980s and there are 108 single-family homes in the community.The neighborhood is at the northwest corner of Northwest 154th Street and Northwest 82nd Avenue, and extends north to Northwest 157th Terrace.Its western border, at Northwest 83rd Place, abuts a waterway and land where cattle graze.The neighborhood is almost fully developed: a home is rising on the last remaining lot.The Park Centre Shops...

The dreaded Palmetto Expressway may have a new nickname: the not so bad Palmetto, perhaps?On Sept. 23, drivers using new express lanes on the Palmetto Expressway began paying tolls with their Sunpass transponders.Some Miami Lakes drivers like the express lanes; others, not so much.Whatever one’s feelings about the tolls, those who watch traffic on Northwest 154th Street said the town’s main east-west artery is less congested.And that’s not...

The Pumpkin PatchEveryone loves the pumpkin patch!Whether you go to take photographs or to choose a pumpkin to carve, you are sure to get into the Halloween mood.At Miami Lakes United Methodist Church, 14800 NW 67th Ave., it is open daily from 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. through Oct. 31. For info: www.hopemlumc.com.Nightmare on MontroseThe town’s annual event for trick-or-treating, arts and crafts, a costume parade, food trucks, a tent painting contest...