Council raises cap for property tax rate, pledges to cut budget

Featured By Alexandra Herrera, Reporter Wednesday, August 13, 2025

The Miami Lakes council set a cap for a tentative millage rate for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The highest the property tax rate could be is 2.6372, or $2.63 per every $1,000 of assessed property value, less a homestead deduction and other...

Annual Vets Parade is set for Sunday, Nov. 5

Government Thursday, October 5, 2017

Across the span of 30-plus years, the Town of Miami Lakes, and the former Miami Lakes Civic Association, have saluted veterans with the longest running parade in all of Miami-Dade County.This year, the Town and its Veterans Affairs Committee will host the 38th annual Veterans Day Parade on Sunday, November 5.Sponsored in part by The Graham Companies, the patriotic parade features more than 3,000 participants including active-duty and retired...
Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid delivers his first State of the Town Address, which is scheduled for 6 p.m., Tuesday, October 17 at Town Hall, 6601 Main Street.The event is sponsored by JetStream Federal Credit Union and will be catered by the Miami Lakes Educational Center’s Culinary Arts Program students.Cid will highlight the town’s accomplishments amid his first term as mayor and Miami Lakes priorities for the new fiscal year...
Miami Lakes Branch Library announced the following programs that are available for the public during  October: For Children and Families:Movies and Stories for Kids – Enjoy watching some of our favorite movies with your family and friends. Call for visit branch for movie listings. Presented by the Town of Miami Lakes Education Advisory Board at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays, October 4 and 11.Talking is Teaching. Talk, Read, Sing for...

Shula’s Athletic Club hosts ‘Glo for the Cure’ awareness event

Community By R.A. Romero, The Miami Laker staff Thursday, October 5, 2017

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Shula’s Athletic Club is doing its part by hosting Glo For The Cure, a week of black light fitness classes to raise funds for a local organization the Women’s Breast & Heart Initiative. All classes and events are open to all non-members. Join #TeamShula in the fight against breast cancer between October 16 through the 21 by signing up through social media or at the club’s...

Main St. Players present The Underpants through Oct. 22

Community By R.A. Romero, The Miami Laker staff Thursday, October 5, 2017

Louise Maske’s underpants fall to her ankles in the middle of the king’s parade and quickly as they fel,l there are suitors at her door ready to treat Louise as a muse or as property, but somehow never as a woman to love, which is a problem for her and lucky for her clueless husband, Theo. There are moments of The Underpants that can speak to thinly-veiled racism, sexism, and the quagmire of a poet professing love that he...
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