The Miami Lakes Town Foundation has awarded $18,605 in 12 grants to local schools and a non-profit to support education and foster community.       The money comes from the annual Miami Lakes Food & Wine Festival, which will be held Feb. 1, 2025.  The winners are:  •  $1,750 Julio Echemendia, assistant principal, Hialeah- Miami Lakes Adult Community Education Center. For...

    Miami Lakers will return to the polls on Nov. 26 to choose a mayor, because none of the three candidates won more than 50% of the votes on Nov. 5.       An open council seat was decided by voters.      Unofficial results showed Councilman Josh Dieguez was leading with 46.67% or 7,320 votes on Election night, followed by former Vice Mayor Tony Fernandez, who won 6,593 votes, or 42%, per...

     Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Michael Coote wanted to honor Miami Lakes during his speech at the 45th Annual Veterans Day Parade.       Coote, chosen by the Miami Lakes Veterans Committee to be grand marshal, is also a former chair of the committee.       “I found my home and my friends not where I left them in the wooded lands of rural New Hampshire, but rather 1,500 miles...

Miami Lakes Councilman Josh Dieguez said Tuesday night that he expects to face Vice Mayor Tony Fernandez yet again in a runoff election on Nov. 26, after unofficial numbers released by county officials showed that neither candidate received more than 50% of the vote needed to become the next mayor of the town. With seven out of seven precincts accounted for, the county showed Dieguez with 46.6% of the vote and Fernandez with 42%. There...

The race for Florida District 39 senate race is between incumbent Sen. Bryan Avila, R-Miami Springs and Democrat Charles A. Lewis I.       One of Avila’s staff members said he was not available for an interview.       He is academic dean at Doral College and an officer in the Florida Army National Guard, according to his social media accounts.      Avila, 40, was a sponsor...