Miami Lakes Neighborhood Improvement Committee (NIC) will hosts a Community Forum at 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 21, in the Council Chambers at Town Hall, 6601 Main Street. A presentation of the Town’ Strategic Plan will be offered by assistant Town Manager Andrea Agha. The plan includes strategies the Town is pursuing to increase mobility as well as economic development through the enhancement of community hugs and activity...

  Spearheaded by Councilmember Frank Mingo, Miami Lakes hosted a toy drive benefiting His House Children’s Home. Thanks to local donations, Miami Lakes representatives (from left) Mayor Michael Pizzi, Mingo, Youth Activities Task Force chair Lynn Matos, Vice Mayor Tim Daubert and Councilmembers Ceasar Mestre and Nelson Rodriguez delivered over 200 gifts to children in need. His House Children’s Home is a private, faith-based...

  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...