Spearheaded by the Education Advisory Board, in partnership with Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS), the Town of Miami Lakes announced that Bob Graham Education Center and Miami Lakes K-8 Center will offer a first of its kind advanced placement preparatory course for eighth graders beginning in August. The course, Communications Methodology Honors, enables students to highly refine communication and critical-thinking skills...

  Longtime local resident and former Pace student, Amy Diaz has always had a love for fashion. It was only a matter of time that she would open her own store, FH Fashion House, now located at 7307 Miami Lakes Dr in the Cypress Village Shopping Center. As a teenager Diaz began working at a local retail store and over the course of eight years, worked her way up from sales associate to managing and buying for the store. She later became a...

  Just in time for the beginning of hurricane season, a new pet responsibility lesson that includes a video offering pet care tips during natural disasters became part of the curriculum for fourth and fifth graders in Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS). The video is the second collaboration between Miami-Dade County Animal Services and MDCPS. The lesson plan focuses on the importance of having a family preparation plan for an...

  DepositAccounts released the 2015 edition of its Top 200 Healthiest Credit Unions in America which included Miami Lakes’ own JetStream Federal Credit Union. This marks the second consecutive year JetStream has been named, a feat only accomplished by 66 out of 6,655 federally insured credit unions.  DepositAccounts rates credit unions annually based on evaluations of the financial health which are graded on a number of...

  Miami Lakes’ Team Mooo was recognized as the second highest fund-raisers for this year’s American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event, raising $4,200 to help the voluntary health organization find a cure for the deadly disease. The group of high-school students were honored by Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza in Miami Lakes for their fundraising efforts. Team Mooo raised the money with car washing events and the...