October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and at Miami Lakes Athletic Club, they’re raising awareness while working up a sweat. In addition to themed classes where participants are encouraged to dress in pink, there are tables outside workout studios where they sell t-shirts and goodie bags to raise money for the cause. It’s never hard to create excitement and get participation from club members, fitness manager Gitte Torres...

Members of the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, along with elected officials and Miami Lakes residents, enjoyed a cup of coffee for National Coffee with a Cop Day. Led by the Public Safety Committee the event invites the community to meet with local deputies to discuss issues in the community. Held on October 7 at the Cypress Village Starbucks, the group chatted and the committee handed out key fob protectors and magnets.  

For Larry Borman, being thanked as a veteran means something. Like many Vietnam War veterans, he remembers a different greeting when he came home from war. The protests of those times, often aimed specifically at returning soldiers, stayed with him. “That’s what got me involved with veterans’ organizations to being with,” Borman said. “It was pretty traumatic … coming home and not being...

The old school library has evolved over the years – modern media centers are places students go for access to new technologies and collaboration, as well as books. Now the Miami Lakes K-8 Center’s media center – or Innovation Space, as it’s now known – has more opportunity for that thanks to an ongoing $2m project. Miami Lakes K-8 Center is one of 18 Miami-Dade County public schools to get a new Innovation...

Residents in Lake Martha are concerned about their dwindling Muscovy duck population. Concerned and suspicious. In the last several months, according to Homeowners Association President Larry Borman, they have gone from seeing ducks all over the community to hardly seeing any. “It’s a really sad thing … I guess [it started] about three months ago,” Borman said. Some residents believe someone is poisoning...