Miami Lakes will host a Contractor Certification Class, presented by Ygrene Energy Fund, from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursday, March 26, at Town Hall, 6601 Main Street. The free class is open to both commercial and residential contractors. Miami Lakes Town Council voted to join the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program during its December meeting. The PACE program provides upfront financing for energy conservation and efficiency...

  In 1982, when then-freshman Michael Jordan made the winning basket to give North Carolina the NCCA Championship over Georgetown in New Orleans, longtime Miami Lakes resident Reid Stevenson was there. As North Carolina State coach Jim Valvano and the Wolfpack celebrated following Lorenzo Charles’ buzzer-beating dunk to win the championship against Houston, Stevenson was sitting in the stands in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When...

  Perla Tabares Hantman, chairman of the Miami-Dade County School Board, was reappointed to serve on the Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization Governing Board (MPO) by Governor Rick Scott for an additional term ending December 16, 2017. The MPO is a federally mandated and funded transportation policy-making organization that is composed of 23 voting members, including the 13 Miami-Dade County Commissioners, an elected official...

  Town of Miami Lakes Landscape Superintendent Guillermo Salazar will be the guest speaker at the Miami Lakes Garden Club’s monthly membership meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 23, at Mary Collins Community Center, 15151 N.W. 82 Avenue. The meeting is open to Garden Club members, their guests and local residents. In addition to his municipal responsibilities, Salazar is a private landscape designer and consultant and adjunct...

  The Florida Department of Transportation has scheduled a community meeting for 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 28, at the Country Club of Miami, 6801 N.W. 186 Street, to give property owners and interested parties an opportunity to learn more about the agency’s proposed improvement plans on I-75. According to the plans, contractors will continue building the new express lanes within the median from N.W. 170 Street to Miramar Parkway....