Miami Lakes appears to be in good financial shape for the next fiscal year, as the town is proposing to hold the line on the property tax rate, while generating enough revenues to resume rendering quality services and a surplus to keep the municipality running efficiently. But residents may pay a slight tax increase because their property values grew last year. Last month, the mayor and councilmembers preliminarily approved to keep...

  Schools superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho announced that 43 percent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) elementary, K-8 and middle schools received a School Performance Grade of "A" while only five percent received an "F," according to information released by the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE). The report also showed a higher percentages of M-DCPS schools received School Performance Grades of "A" in comparison to...

  "The more I do, the further behind I get," said Becky Foster, played by Francine Birns, in the new Main Street Players production Becky's New Car. "Anyone else feel like that?" She motions to the audience for feedback. Echoes of sighs, muffled laughs, and empathetic grunts fill the room. Becky's New Car expertly breaks down the fourth wall and creates an atmosphere unlike any other play. Becky converses with the audience, enlists...

  Owners of The Miami Lakes Art Academy, Adilas Hernandez and her husband Orelvis Dominguez, have now opened Miami Lakes A+ Daycare Center.  The new facility is located at 13905 N.W. 67 Avenue within the Lake Patricia Shopping Center in Miami Lakes, and officially opened it's doors on Monday, July 28.  Both Hernandez and Dominguez, who hail from Cuba, immigrated to the U.S. 11 years ago and have been working in the Miami-Dade...

  The Miami Lakes marina picnic and playground area, located at Miami Lakes Optimist Park, 6411 N.W. 162 Street, is now available to be reserved for birthday parties and family gatherings. Pavilions and picnic tables are available, and life jackets and fishing rods are available for free. Free fishing clinics are also available and a Florida freshwater fishing license is required for those wishing to cast their lines. For license...