Miami Lakes Councilmember Frank Mingo recently completed the Florida League of Cities and the John Scott Dailey Florida Institute of Government’s Institute for Elected Municipal Officials Program (IEMO). The educational program is specifically designed for newly elected officials and those with less than one term in office. “Attending the seminar was a great learning experience and I am looking forward to attending the...

  Perla Tabares Hantman, a longtime resident of the Town of Miami Lakes, was recently elected with an outstanding 81 percent of the vote to her sixth term as a member of the Miami-Dade County School Board where she represents District 4, and is currently serving as its chair for the seventh time. Throughout her many years of public service on the School Board, Hantman has worked hard in improving the District’s level of academic...

    Talented young singers, musicians and bands will all take the stage for the 5th annual Miami Lakes Rocks! Music Festival scheduled for Saturday, September 20, at Miami Lakes Optimist Park, 6411 N.W. 164 Street. The popular event is sponsored by the town’s Youth Activities Task Force and was created to provide an avenue of artistic expression to the youth of the town, promoting culture and community spirit. For more...

  Miami Lakes’ Boy Scout Troop 49 will celebrate its 50th anniversary in December, a milestone that commenced two years after the Graham family first developed the community in 1962. But the group hasn’t had much to celebrate as of late after someone burglarized the troop’s trailer in Davie and stole tents, sleeping bags and other equipment all valued at $5,000. The theft left most of the boys discouraged and they quit...

  The Miami Lakes Cold Stone Creamery franchise is just one chapter of the many accomplishments in Ruth Spiegel’s life. Spiegel, owner of the Miami Lakes Cold Stone and other locations in Coral Springs, Plantation, Pompano and Coconut Creek, was named one of South Florida Business Journal’s (SFBJ) 2014 Influential Business Women of the Year.  Spiegel, born in Germany to Holocaust survivors, finds it easiest to...