The Town of Miami Lakes ushered in the new year with a bang, as fireworks lit up the night sky and residents were wishing for the best in 2015. And the Miami Lakes Town Council, town volunteers, the educational and business communities offer hope to make the city the best place to live, work, learn, play and shop for the new year. Miami Lakes is exploring ways to resolve the decade-long traffic gridlock, creating a canal bank stabilization...

For many of us, getting in shape in the number 1 New Year’s Resolution. Not having enough time to exercise is the most common excuse but please note that a healthy lifestyle may be more critical to your climb up the corporate ladder that you thought.Sacrificing your health and fitness so you can spend more hours at the office might actually be counterproductive as even the most devoted employees will experience diminished health if they...

Painting With A Twist, the bring-your-own-beverage painting studio that encourages amateur artists to tackle famous paintings with the help of a teacher, is coming to Miami Lakes. The four partners who franchised Painting With A Twist, Yirka and Alex Marban, Ignacio Menendez and Yaime Riveiro are surprisingly not artists, but all enjoyed taking classes at Painting With A Twist and hoped to open their own. Their dream was realized with the...

  Miami Lakes’ Youth Activities Task Force (YATF) presents the 2015 Movies at the Park Series. The free movie event takes place at Miami Lakes Picnic Park West, 15151 Montrose Road (N.W. 82 Avenue.) The series kick-off is scheduled for Friday, January 16, at 8 p.m., and will continue every other week through March 13 for a total of five films. The YATF is offering residents an opportunity to choose the movies they want to see by...

  Founded in 2013, the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Hope for Autism United Soccer Foundation, also known as Autism Soccer, has a new home in Miami Lakes thanks in large part to a growing list of sponsors and donors. Autism Soccer’s leader, the energetic former 2nd Division Soccer professional Oscar Amuz, says his dream of helping children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and intellectual disabilities through soccer has come...