It’s official. Miami Lakes residents living in the county’s special taxing districts for security guard gates and lakes maintenance overwhelmingly approved a mail-in ballot election to transfer responsibility for the various districts to the town to maintain them under the town’s standards.  The January 24 special election reported that an estimated 82 percent of the residents living in six special taxing...

  Celebrations did not end at the holiday season at Dade Christian School. Homecoming, a significant part of the school’s traditions, will be commemorated starting Monday, January 29. Although the school’s first graduating class was in 1967, Homecoming traditions didn’t start until the mid 70s.  Students enjoy a whole week of dressing-down with a daily change in theme. This year, students will be able to dress up...

  Prior to the holiday break, the students of Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s Mission Club held a holiday party to prepare special stocking stuffers for children of families in need at Christmas. The annual event held at Pace was sponsored by Stephen Pelzer, a class of 2012 Pace alumnus and his family. It was 15 years ago when Pelzer, at just 8 years old, was filling Christmas food baskets with his family and realized...

  Miami Lakes Vice Mayor Nelson Rodriguez recently celebrated his 30th year as a Coral Gables firefighter. “I truly cannot have done it without the support of my family, especially my wife, Lisa, who has been there through the whole journey,” Rodriguez said. Rodriguez said he is planning to retire in 2021 and spend more time with family; he and his wife, Lisa Rodriguez, have three young children. Residents and friends of...

  Current Spanish Lake Elementary music teacher and former Bob Graham Education Center music teacher, Jackson Bunn, will be the featured performer for the second year in a row with his band at Jazz in the Park on Saturday, January 27. The event starts at 6 p.m. and will be held at Miami Lakes Picnic Park West, 15151 N.W. 82 Avenue. Bunn was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on November 27, 1962. He began learning songs from movies,...