Miami Lakes Elderly Affairs Committee will provide free transportation on Thursday, August 7, to the Perez Art Museum Miami, a modern and contemporary art museum dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Free First Thursdays is when the Museum offers free entry on the first Thursday of the month. Space is limited and free transportation is available to those who make a reservation by...

  Summer is almost over, and Monsignor Edward Pace High School is ready to welcome its new students to the 2014-2015 school year at the Spartan Experience New Student Orientation on Thursday, August 14. Freshman and transfer students will have a full day of activities designed to welcome them to Pace and get them accustomed to being a part of the Pace family.  They will begin the day by getting breakfast and having their ID picture...

    Miami-Dade County Commissioner Esteban Bovo Jr.’s office will host a Golden Passport outreach event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, August 6, at Miami Lakes Government Center, 6601 Main Street. Miami-Dade residents who are 65 years or older, and Social Security beneficiaries, can register for, or renew their Golden Passport EASY Card, which allows them to ride free on Miami-Dade Transit’s system....

  The Miami-Dade School Board approved a budget proposal by Superintendent of Schools Alberto M. Carvalho for the 2014-2015 school year. The budget protects teachers and the classroom with an increase in school spending of $43 million and a reduction in administrative spending of $5 million, down 57 percent since 2008. The budget protects taxpayers by lowering the tax rate and continues to expand Exceptional Student Education (ESE)...

  Boys and girls, ages 6 to 18 years old, are invited to attend the 2014 Junior Golf Camp at Shula’s Golf Club during two week-long sessions in August. Session 3 is scheduled August 4 to 8; and Session 4 will be held August 11 to 15. Each session will run from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Kids will learn the basics of the game including concentration on full-swing, putting, chipping, and most importantly, fun. Sessions include lunch...