Longtime Miami Lakes resident Alvin L. West, CFO and Senior Vice President of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, has earned the prestigious designation of Certified Destination Management Executive (CDME) from the worldwide Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI).DMAI promotes and advances the success of Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) worldwide.West is one of only 400 professionals from 16 countries...

Principal of Bob Graham Education Center is pictured greeting students and parents and handing out bracelets during the first week back from summer break. The 2016-2017 school year in Miami-Dade County resumed on Monday, August 22 and will end on June 9, 2017. 

Miami Lakes Branch Library presents Musical Moments with local Latin artist Pavel Vitier at 3 p.m., Saturday, September 17 at 6999 Windmill Gate Road.Vitier, a composer/writer and guitarist, will deliver a special  performance of great dance music with a mixture of modern Latin sounds.He has collaborated in recordings for such artists as Willy Chirino, Donato Poveda and Edwin Bonilla.Vitier also performed and toured with Cachao,...

Miami Marlins Thursday home games are free for seniors 55 years and older. Pictured is a large group of Miami Lakes seniors ready to board their free bus at Town Hall for the August 25 Marlins vs. Kansas City Royals game. The group is decked out with their red 2016 Miami Lakes Seniors Sluggers shirts. During the game, the Miami Lakes group was shown three times on the stadium’s Jumbo Tron screen. Of the six games the Senior Sluggers...

Main Street Players, located at 6766 Main Street, is currently in rehearsal for the final show of the 2016 season, Clybourne Park, by Bruce Norris. The 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the sequel to A Raisin in the Sun, tackles the issues of race and housing.In 1959, a middle-aged white couple is selling their home to escape the place where their Korean War veteran son killed himself. When they agree to sell the home to a black couple, it...