It was the day after Christmas, and the weather was dreadful, but the grey skies, rain and humidity could not keep Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC) students and alumni away. They challenged the common assumption that “once graduation comes along, high school students never look back.” On December 26 Cambridge students and alumni gathered together for a potluck lunch at Miami Lakes Picnic Park West. The reunion,...

  Once again, State Senator Rene Garcia, and State Representatives Jose Oliva and Manny Diaz Jr., are teaming up during the 2015 Florida Legislative Session in Tallahassee to help Miami Lakes secure state funding for several capital improvement projects. This year, the town is requesting $3.75 million for four different projects: The West Lakes drainage improvement project, the Lake Sarah, Adele, Hilda, Mary and Suzie drainage...

Main Street Players presents its 2015 season beginning with A Bicycle Country by Pulitzer-Prize award winning playwright, Nilo Cruz; followed by God of Carnage by Yamina Reza, Reefer Madness The Musical, and The Pot by Glenn Hutchinson. A Bicycle Country will run from February 6 through March 1, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. at the Main Street Playhouse, 6766 Main Street in Miami Lakes. The play is set against the...

  As former Florida Senator Bob Graham watched his daughter, an incoming House Democrat, shake hands with an endless line of visitors, he peeked out of her corner office window at the briskly falling snow and marveled at the symmetry to his own political career. Thirty-six years earlier, a 15-year-old Gwen Graham stood with her father on a frigid outdoor stage in Tallahassee at his first inauguration as Governor. It snowed that day as...

Transfixed by a legal showdown to determine who should be the town’s rightful mayor, Miami Lakes residents appeared to be divided over their support for Mayor Wayne Slaton and former mayor Michael Pizzi, who filed a lawsuit in Miami-Dade Circuit Court to get his old job back. But the schism also suggested the town shouldn’t spend taxpayer’s money for legal expenses and explore other ways to settle the mayoral quandary....