For the past 39 years, The Graham Companies has awarded college scholarships to graduates of Miami Lakes Middle School. The $1,000 checks are distributed when scholarship winners complete high school.      This year’s recipient is Mayte Mendez. She is shown above at right, with Andrea Graham Rechichi, vice president of corporate relations for The Graham Companies.      Mayte is a...

     County and local elected officials heard from property owners who shared their frustrations about damages to their homes as well as to municipal buildings and infrastructure that they attribute to miners blasting for limestone.      “It’s not only our homes,” said Pamela Carrera, a real estate broker in Miami Lakes who is a member of the Palm Springs North Civic Association....

   Among the appropriations made by the Florida legislature and approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis are nearly $2.1 million that will allow two major road and drainage projects in Miami Lakes to move forward.      “This is the highest amount of state appropriations in any one year in the history of the town,” Town Manager Edward Pidermann said in an email on June 15, the day the news was...

     Imagine a date night at a restaurant with a trendy menu and live music to dance to, a place where you don’t have to pay a cover charge, fork over high valet fees or risk your life on Interstate 95 to get there.      Such a night out can be had very close to home. In Miami Lakes restaurants you can take salsa turns with a partner, hear a singer croon romantic ballads or form a line with friends and...

Miami Lakes officials often cut ribbons at new businesses to welcome them to town, so why not greet the latest addition to the Public Works fleet in the same special way?       On the morning of May 25 outside Town Hall, elected officials and town staff debuted a vacuum truck.      On Twitter, Mayor Manny Cid called flooding mitigation one of residents’ top priorities. The new truck, which cost...