The Town of Miami Lakes is kicking off Parks and Recreation Month with a new play surface at the playground in Veterans Park.      The department unveiled a new, bright teal surface on June 11. Work on the park began June 2 and was completed June 8. The money for the $75,000 project came from the town’s midyear carry-forward.      The improvement is the latest in a series for the park. In...

A Miami Lakes church is once again inviting local kids to help themselves before the start of the school year.      Elevate Church Miami Lakes is opening its doors - or more specifically, its parking lot - for its annual Summer Love Day.      The event on Saturday, July 25 aims to help local schoolchildren with whatever they might need for the upcoming school year.      Students and their...

The grades are in and Miami-Dade County Public Schools is an A-rated school district for a seventh year in a row.      The district had no F grades for individual schools, while 64% received an A grade in the Florida Department of Education’s annual school grades. Twenty-two percent of schools received B’s and 14% received C’s.      Among Miami Lakes area schools, Bob Graham Education...

The Miami Lakes Town Council voted four to three to begin the negotiations for Town Manager Edward Pidermann’s contract. Mayor Josh Dieguez broke the 3-3 tie in favor of negotiations. At the July 21 council meeting, Dieguez presented the item to retain Pidermann for two years under a new contract. “My item is not a clean approval, obviously there is a negotiating stage … ,” Dieguez said. “They would need...

As the Miami-Dade County Clerk of the Court and Comptroller, Juan Fernandez-Barquin wears plenty of hats.      He oversees jury duty and traffic tickets, acts as clerk for the county commission and and works with real estate attorneys to keep a record of the deeds, mortgages, judgements and other documents.      “You want one individual or one office in each county to handle all these deeds if you...