Before she came to the United States, Nancy Perez was a college professor in Cuba but had to take a job as a school custodian to make ends meet until she could find a way to validate her teaching certificate from the Communist country.She couldn’t speak English but thanks to the Success Management Academy at Hialeah Miami Lakes Adult Education School, Perez is now a teacher after taking ESOL classes and is back doing what she does...

Theobald Maske has an unusual problem…his wife's underpants won't stay on. One Sunday morning they fall to her ankles right in the middle of town – a public scandal! Mortified, Theo swears to keep her at home until she can find some less unruly undies. Amid this chaos he's trying to rent a room in their flat. The prospective lodgers have some underlying surprises of their own. In The Underpants, Steve Martin brings his...

The Capture a Miami Lakes Moment photo contest held by the Town saw local resident Juan Carlos Garcia take third place for his beautifully serene scene of Madden's Hammock.

For more than 40 years, Joseph Cooper’s voice could be heard over the airwaves as a talk show radio host for WLRN.For 18 years, his creation, Topical Currents, featured a sub-tropical blend of regional issues and politics, local profiles and author interviews, which made him a popular figure in South Florida. After 4,700 editions, Cooper is calling it a career which started at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and...

Miami Lakes Elderly Affairs Committee is offering the first Senior Field Trip of the Fall on Monday, September 25, to take a tour of Marlins Stadium.The behind-the-scenes tour of the state-of-the-art Marlins Park will be an experience to view the 37,000 seat, three panel retractable roof facility in the heart of Miami, home to the two-time World Series Champions Miami Marlins, and deemed a jewel of Major League Baseball.Transportation will be...