Middle and high school students are invited to attend Miami Lakes’ “Back to School” party at “The Spot”, Miami Lakes Youth Center, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, January 13. Students will receive free pizza sponsored by Papa Johns, a free water bottle, and enjoy a night to hang out before hitting the books with the start of a new grading period. The first Field Trip for middle and high school students will take...

Miami Lakes Councilmembers Tony Lama and Nelson Rodriguez, who initiated the town’s first Transportation Summit, recently met with FDOT and county officials during a lunch meeting to explore more ways to alleviate the traffic gridlock throughout the 6.5 square-mile city. Equally frustrated residents said the traffic gridlock, during peak hours in the morning and afternoon, along N.W. 67 Avenue to the Palmetto Expressway, Miami Lakes...

Fourteen students from Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s STEM Academy Emerging Computer Technologies Program got to see the pinnacle of technology in South Florida when they visited Verizon Terremark’s NAP of the Americas data center and Internet exchange point in downtown Miami on November 17. The NAP (Network Access Point) functions essentially as the heart of the Internet for Latin America as it connects South America and the...

  Miami Lakes Cultural Affairs Committee will host its annual Concert in the Park at 6:30 p.m. on its new date, Saturday, January 30, at Picnic Park West, 15151 N.W. 82 Avenue. The original performance date of November 14 was canceled due to inclement weather. The show is free and open to the public, and will feature the presence of several food trucks. Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets, picnic baskets, friends and family for...

  As proposed by Board Chair Perla Tabares Hantman, the Miami-Dade School Board unanimously voted to endorse the 2016 Teen Driver Safety Contest, in collaboration with the Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Public Schools Community Traffic Safety Team and the Florida Highway Patrol. The contest, now in its eighth year, is made up of the annual Teen Driver Safety Public Service Announcement (PSA) and Poster Contest that...