Residents who attend town functions will know Ydalis Navarro, Miami Lakes’ Marketing & Digital Services Specialist. She works at many of the special events and municipal meetings in Miami Lakes.       Navarro, 23, grew up in the area and currently lives in Pembroke Pines. She graduated April 25 from Florida International University after earning a Master of Science degree in...

     The Mantrap band inspired their audience to dance and sing during their Main Street Live! show on April 17.      The performance, near the circle, was enjoyed by restaurant patrons, shoppers and strollers in the downtown neighborhood.       The show was part of a series of free monthly concerts that the Main Street Merchants, The Graham Companies and the town’s Cultural...

     The Graham Companies has entered into an agreement with the Town of Miami Lakes that would require the developers to donate the Par 3 golf course to the public for a passive park within the next decade.       The golf course has five lakes on 33 acres. The parcel is shaped like an upside down F.       It is west of the Palmetto Expressway and Northwest 77th Avenue, between Miami Lakes...

     Juan Fernandez-Barquin wants to make sure homeowners don’t become victims of deed thieves.       “Property fraud is ... a scheme where the fraudsters will file a forged deed,” said Fernandez-Barquin, the Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller of Miami-Dade County.       The criminal will file fake documents that will list a new property owner, either an...

     Lutheran Services Florida has appointed Lorenzo Cobiella chairman of its board.      Cobiella, the deputy town attorney for Miami Lakes, is a Catholic. While a communicant of Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic Parish, he was a youth minister and he volunteered with Lutheran Services Florida, performing community service work that included building transition homes.      “My  hope...