The Miami Lakes Optimist Club is holding its summer basketball registration for boys and girls on consecutive Saturdays, April 19 and 26, from 9:30 to noon at Miami Lakes Middle School. Registration cost is $145 for each player from ages 11-18. The season starts Monday, June 9. Games will be played at Barbara Goleman High School and Hialeah Gardens Senior High School. Parents must bring their kids to the registration along with their...

  The Miami Lakes K-8 Center Music Department prepared music students for the Center's Annual Spring Concert. The middle school orchestra, guitar and chorus presented "A Collage of Classics." Under the direction of Fine Arts chairperson, Sara Cino, the middle school musicians performed “Hey Jude,” “All My Loving,” “Yellow Submarine,” “Morning Mood,” “Anitra’s Dance,”...

  Miami-Dade School Board Chair Perla Tabares Hantman was awarded Miami Lakes highest honor, the “Key to the Town,” during the Town Council meeting on April 8. A 35-year resident of the town, Hantman was honored for her passion and dedication to education and for being a tireless advocate on behalf of all the public school within her District. “Over the years, Chairwoman Hantman has proudly represented the School Board...

  Youth Arts Day & Music Fest 2014 with the theme Dance! Draw! Dream! is a community collaboration celebrating  creativity, youth artists and diversity while creating awareness of Miami-Dade County’s rich cultural resources. The collaboration is a three-week long visual and literary art exhibition which opens with a day long series of youth performances and art from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 4, at the Deering...

  As Miami-Dade County is preparing to offset a tremendous budget shortfall for the upcoming fiscal year, the private sector could be the backbone of the local economy.      County Mayor Carlos Gimenez said Miami-Dade was able to complete a pipeline of infrastructure projects this year through new partnerships with private companies that helped save taxpayers a lot of money.    Since he took office in 2011,...