Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC) is hosting its annual diabetes screening on Friday, October 3 from 7:30 to 10 p.m. The MLEC health students work together with medical students from Nova Southeastern University to conduct health and wellness checks where they take blood pressure and calculate BMI among other things. This event is free and open to the community. MLEC is located at 5780 N.W. 158 Street.

  More than 200 people honored veterans by attending the September 4 unveiling ceremony of the new Veterans Memorial in front of Miami Lakes Government Center. The ceremony, organized by the Town’s Veterans Committee, included a Presentation of the Colors, reading of a proclamation from the Mayor and Town Council, and the unveiling of the commemorative bricks placed on the pathway leading to the Memorial. James E. Deming, CWO-4...

    Talented young singers, musicians and bands will all take the stage for the 5th annual Miami Lakes Rocks! Music Festival scheduled for Saturday, September 20, at Miami Lakes Optimist Park, 6411 N.W. 164 Street. The popular event is sponsored by the town’s Youth Activities Task Force and was created to provide an avenue of artistic expression to the youth of the town, promoting culture and community spirit. For more...

  Miami Lakes’ Boy Scout Troop 49 will celebrate its 50th anniversary in December, a milestone that commenced two years after the Graham family first developed the community in 1962. But the group hasn’t had much to celebrate as of late after someone burglarized the troop’s trailer in Davie and stole tents, sleeping bags and other equipment all valued at $5,000. The theft left most of the boys discouraged and they quit...

  The question theater patrons in Miami Lakes are asking is, “How are they going to do that?” Do what? you wonder. “How are the Main Street Players taking the large-scale Broadway award winning musical, Spring Awakening, and make it work in their intimate theater?” Design genius is the only fitting answer. Under the guidance of set designer Michael Stopnick, technical director Dennis Lyzniak and lighting...