When Michael Barcelo was diagnosed with Leukemia when he was 3 years-old, his friends and classmates at Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School rallied to his aid and helped raise money for people who were stricken with the deadly disease. Throughout the years, the same group of high-school students who now attend Monsignor Pace High and Our Lady of the Lourdes Academy, are still collecting money for a worthy cause and participating in...

  Applications are due by March 30 for the Miami Lakes Future Leaders Scholarship presented by The Graham Companies. Two $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to graduating high school seniors who are residents of the Town of Miami Lakes. The town’s Education Advisory Board, along with a representative from The Graham Companies, will announce the scholarship recipients at the Town Council meeting on Tuesday, May 5. Interested...

  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...