School for Advanced Studies (SAS), a nationally recognized collegiate high school, will be opening a new campus at Miami Dade College (MDC) West Campus for the 2016-2017 school year. Current Miami-Dade County 10th-graders with a minimum unweighted 3.0 grade point average are invited to apply, and may become eligible for admission upon satisfying all program requirements, including earning minimum SAS college entrance exam scores....

  Celebrate Recovery®, a faith-based 12-step program, will kick off in Miami Lakes on Wednesday, April 6, at Miami Lakes United Methodist Church, 14800 N.W. 67 Avenue. The program starts with fellowship and coffee at 6:30 p.m. A large group meeting starts at 7 p.m. with Biblically-based teachings and music. At 8 p.m., small sharing groups are offered based on specific issues. The small groups are divided into men’s and...

  The Miami Lakes Cars for a Cure is back and it’s shaping up to look better than last year’s event. At 10 a.m. on Sunday, April 10 on Main Street, about 170 classic cars will be on display as part of a fund-raiser to benefit the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and honor the memory of former Vice Mayor Roberto Alonso, who had an affinity for vintage model...

  Miami Lakes United Soccer Club has won many tournaments and championships throughout Florida and outside the Sunshine state. But the community oriented organization scored perhaps its biggest victory in its 20-year history last week when the Town of Miami Lakes rejected an unsolicited bid from another soccer club to run the recreational and travel team programs at Royal Oaks Park, and in return pay the town about $53,000 a year for...

  Miami-Dade Police Major George A. Perez, the Town of Miami Lakes police commander, will be the guest speaker for the Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce membership meeting. The event is scheduled for 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, April 13, at Don Shula’s Hotel inside the Grand Ballroom. Perez has been a Miami-Dade police officer for 16 years, which included working in the department’s Police Services Division as a patrol officer,...