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,...

  In an effort to restart and finish construction of the Youth Center building at Miami Lakes Picnic Park East, the previous contractor’s surety company has offered the Town of Miami Lakes $726,000 to finish building the facility more than a year after construction abruptly stopped because the company’s work was not up to the town’s standards. At the April 8 Town Council meeting, councilmembers approved a resolution to...

 

Miami Lakes officially transitioned the school crossing guard program from Miami-Dade County to the town on March 31, marking the first day school crossing guards began serving the streets at Bob Graham Education Center and Miami Lakes K-8 Center.  The Town hired and certified seven school crossing guards, the majority of which are Miami Lakes residents.