Miami Lakes received a grant from the South Florida Water Management Department’s  Cooperative Funding Program in the amount of $125,000 in an extremely competitive proposal process in which only 31 proposals from 94 applicants were funded.The funding will supplement the Miami Lakes Lake Sarah Drainage Improvements Project located between Miami Lakeway South, State Road 924, Palmetto Expressway and N.W. 67 Avenue in the southeast...

Miami Lakes Veterans Committee is asking residents to assist in “Operation: Care and Comfort” to complete its mission to send care packages overseas to U.S. troops. Donations such as non-perishable foods, snacks, and treats, personal hygiene accessories and toiletries, batteries, socks, hand towels, notebooks and pens can be dropped off at the first floor reception desk at Town Hall, 6601 Main Street,Items donated by November 11...

Miami Lakes resident and business owner Lourdes Corvo, the Walk Chair for the Miami Dade Walk to End Alzheimer’s, is encouraging community members to participate in the walk at Museum Park, 1075 Biscayne Blvd, in downtown Miami on November 5 at 8:30 a.m.The 2.5 mile walk raises funds needed to find a cure for Alzheimer’s. Those who walk or donate will help the Alzheimer’s Association which is the third largest provider in...

Miami Lakes Elderly Affairs Committee is offering free field trips for residents 55 years and above. The next field trip is scheduled for Tuesday, November 1, to the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens.Fairchild is one of the premier conservation and education-based gardens in the world, and is dedicated to exploring, explaining and conserving the world of tropical plants with one of the world’s greatest living collections of palms and...

Brent and Raquel Emundson announced the arrival of Jordan Riley Emundson at 3:30 a.m. on Monday, September 5. He weighed 7 pounds and measured 19 inches long. The parents and their first son, Gavin, are Miami Lakes residents as are the paternal grandparents, Arnold and Nell Emundson. The maternal grandparents are Maria and German Garcia.