Miami Lakes resident Broderick Schwinghammer was elected president of the Youth Advisory Committee to The Children's Trust of Miami-Dade County. The Children's Trust emphasizes collaboration and partnership in order to provide the programs and services needed by children and parents county wide. These programs include reading, anti-violence, health screenings, parenting skills and art programs. The Youth Advisory Committee (YAC) is...

At the July , regular Miami Lakes Town Council meeting, lawmakers tentatively kept the existing 2.3518 rate for property taxes for the 2013-14 fiscal year, which is $2.3518 per $1,000 of assessed property value. The proposed rate, which is the same as the two previous years, is projected to generate about $5.6 million in property tax revenue for the proposed budget estimated at $14.8 million. The tax roll reflects a gross taxable value of...

Miami Lakes resident Chandler Precht, representing the South Florida Regional Science and Engineering Fair, recently won a silver medal at SUNY (State University of New York) Oswego’s third annual GENIUS Olympiad global environmental science, art, writing and design competition in Oswego, New York. Precht earned the recognition for a project titled “Origin and Recovery of White Pox Lesions on the Threatened Elkhorn Coral,...

"Stay Calm and Chemo On!" Students, colleagues and friends piled into the gym at Miami Lakes Educational Center wearing originally designed t-shirts made in the school's colors – teal and white. Though the sound system was on, bleachers were down and a photographer was snapping away, this was not an ordinary pep rally. This one was for American History teacher, Jennie Susi. She has stage four ovarian cancer.  According to the...

What happens when a family suffers the tragic loss of a young child? The Main Street Players will be tackling this question in their upcoming production of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize drama, Rabbit Hole, by David Lindsey-Abaire.  This warm-hearted, but poignant play deals with such a  loss as Howie and Becca Corbett mourn over the accidental death of their son, Danny. Their world is turned upside down, but rather than reaching...