Sections of the Palmetto Expressway/State Road 826 will be closed during evening hours from Tuesday, Oct. 15 through Monday, Oct. 21. Southbound motorists will be detoured off the Expressway as the entrance to the southbound express lanes is shifted from Northwest 154 Street to Northwest 103 Street. New lane markers will be installed and old ones will be removed. Drivers should expect delays. Once work is completed, southbound...

Do you have a favorite coffee spot in Miami Lakes? What shops do you tell your friends about? For the eighth year in a row, the town and its Economic Development Committee are accepting nominations for the Best of Miami Lakes Awards. Here are the categories: Café/Cup of Coffee Lunch Spot Dinner restaurant Shopping Beauty Health Provider Professional Service Fitness Nominations in the first round will be...

     Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sen. René Garcia greeted constituents from District 13 during one of his “Cafecito con René” gatherings at BB’s Bakehouse in Miami Lakes on Sept. 10.       Guests included Stuart Wyllie, president and chief executive officer of The Graham Companies; Miami-Dade Police officers from the Miami Lakes district and Miami-Dade County Public Schools Board...

Damian Reynoso   Bartender, Café Mi Vitrola  Miramar   “I will do a mixed bag of candy that has all kinds of candy like M&M’s and lollipops,” Damian Reynoso said in Spanish.  Brantley Jay Vogt  Regional Vice President, Primerica  Pembroke Pines   “We do the honor [system], we leave a bucket outside usually,” Brantley Jay Vogt said....

     Stitch is a lucky boy who has a caring family. He lives with Lisandra Abreu and her fiancé Chris Locke, and is her daughter Yami Asaad’s pet.      Locke works from home and is able to dote on the 15-year-old Pomeranian-Shih Tzu mixed breed boy.     “He is like a child and requires a lot of care,” Locke says. “He is very sweet, loveable and exerts energy only when...