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...

  Miami Lakes area residents who receive curbside waste collection service from Miami-Dade County can now recycle their Christmas trees by taking them to one of the county’s Trash and Recycling Centers or the West Miami-Dade Home Chemical Collection Center. All trees brought in for recycling must be free of tree stands, lights, ornaments, tinsel and other decorations. The trees will be converted into mulch, available to residents...

Miami Lakes Town Council voted at the December regular meeting to join the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program. The PACE Program provides upfront financing for energy conservation and efficiency (i.e. energy-efficient heating, cooling, or ventilation systems), renewal energy (i.e. solar panels), Wind resistance (i.e. impact resistant windows) and other improvements. Through these improvements, residents and business property owners...