Miami Lakes Cultural Affairs Committee is hosting the 12th annual Fourth of July Concert and Fireworks Shop on Saturday, July 4, at Miami Lakes Picnic Park West, 15151 N.W. 82 Avenue. The festivities will begin at 6:30 p.m. and attendees are encouraged to bring blankets, chairs and appetites to enjoy the offering of a wide variety of food trucks. Headlining this year’s concert is the Old Skool Gang, a performance group inspired...

  Miami Lakes Education Advisory Board will once again offer free SAT Prep classes for students entering their junior and senior year of high school. The free program is open to Miami Lakes residents, is limited to 20 students, and provided on a first come, first served basis. The sessions will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on July 13-17, and August 10-14, at Miami Lakes Town Hall, 6601 Main Street. All interested students must...

  Miami Lakes’ efforts to have its own independent zip code piqued the interest of U.S. Senator and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio.According to a missive dated June 17, 2015 that Rubio wrote to U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan, the senator is pressing the Washington D.C.-based office to come to a decision on Miami Lakes’ appeal for a zip code after the town’s request was denied earlier this year....

  Dick Poczciwinski is a nimble basketball player with a trademark jump shot that’s lethal.At Shula’s Athletic Club in Miami Lakes, he pushes the ball down the court with cartoon-like speed, and he either passes the ball to one of his teammates or scores with the jump shot or a lay-up.Sometimes, he’s the leading scorer on his pick-up team, averaging in double figures, rebounds the ball well and plays good defense.In...

  The Miami Lakes Heat All Stars team competed in the 19th annual USSSA SWAMP Classic two-day tournament in West Palm Beach. The team’s coaches and the players’ parents said it was a brave performance by the girls who are 14 and 15 years old who defeated the two 18 and under teams, Plantation Pressure and Miami Stingrays, to make it to the championship game. “The girls played valiantly,” said head coach Alex...