Next to the basketball court and near the bus loop, lies a humble garden surrounded by a chain-link fence. For years, the garden never called anyone’s attention: it was barren, dead, unkept, unknown. This year, however, Miami Lakes Education Center (MLEC) is proud to present its brand new garden, whose renovations began on November 6. It has managed to continue growing and thriving and will hopefully continue to steadily become more and more...

Miami Lakes Youth Center will be hosting several fun and exciting programs for middle and high school students from 6 to 8 p.m. during February at “The Spot,” 6075 Miami Lakes Drive East.Open Hang Nights are scheduled for Fridays, February 8, 15 and 22, and on Wednesday, February 27. The Youth Center is equipped with a billard table, table tennis, indoor basketball shootout game, Microsoft Xbox One Console, Nintendo Wii, and more. Bring...

Members of Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s (PACE) Drama Troupe 5457 competed in the District 8 Thespian Competition in December bringing home several awards and honors.  Under the direction of Marianne Martinez, the group added 11 new thespians members this year to the competition troupe and they brought home six excellent and ten superior awards. Of those superior awards, they earned one for Large Group performance as well as a perfect...

To ensure a safe learning environment and violent-free learning place, the Miami-Dade County School Board adopted a newly-revised Code of Student Conduct (COSC), which is aligned to recent local, state, and federal mandates with an emphasis on promoting a safe learning environment to ensure academic success.The COSC sets the standards of conduct expected of students in a purposeful safe learning environment in which the principles of care,...

When Andrea Graham-Rechichi’s great-grandfather went to his father and said, “Dad, don’t sell the land, let’s develop it,” he had a vision for what Miami Lakes could be. Three generations later, Graham-Rechichi is working to maintain that dream, to “carry out a legacy,” continue building a town that feels like home.“My grandfather, made this company a community. I have watched this community around me develop throughout the years, and the...