Miami Lakes Branch Library announced the following programs are available for the public during August: For Children and Families:On Your Mark, Get Set...Read: Movie Screenings – Beat the heat with a  family friendly film. Featured title is “Zootopia.” Event is sponsored by the Miami Lakes Education Advisory Board at 3 p.m. on Saturday, August 6. On Your Mark, Get Set...Read: Library Olympics – Join for a variety...

Long before Sabrina Gonzalez won The Miami Herald’s 2016 Sliver Knight in the Vocational Technical category for Miami-Dade in May, the former Mater Lakes Academy student was part of the school’s Early Childhood Education program where she grew fond of a special student.Adrian was stricken with autism and a student of Cub Academy, an on-site pre-school for what is part of the early childhood curriculum, when Gonzalez met him and...

The Beacon Council, through JPMorgan Chase, recently contributed $30,000 to Miami-Dade College’s Idea Center to be used to create Webdev, a new course that allows participants to learn from the ground up on how to build responsive websites in eight weeks.The new class was launched on July 19.“By the year 2020, more than 60 percent of managerial positions will require coding as a skill,” said Idea Center’s executive...

Miami Lakes’ long-running Summerfest concert is back presenting its 25th Anniversary summer music festival at 8 p.m. on Saturday, August 6. The free concert will be held at Miami Lakes United Methodist Church, 14800 N.W. 67 Avenue.The Summerfest Chamber Orchestra will feature musicians and soloists who have participated in the festival over the past 25 years, including members of the Arpeggione Chamber Orchestra of Austria, the Mission...

Town of Miami Lakes is proposing the same rate for property taxes for the sixth consecutive year but more than $1 million for municipal services might go unfunded unless the town can find the money elsewhere or cut other services depending on what’s important to lawmakers and residents.According to a budget overview with preliminary figures for Miami Lakes’ spending plan for 2016-2017, $1.8 million of services were included in the...