Camp Wannado Aftercare program

Featured By Alexandra Herrera, Reporter Wednesday, September 18, 2024

    Camp Wannado is offering aftercare services for students in Miami Lakes.       The program includes mindfulness for kids; video games; sports; arts and crafts; homework help and more.     ...

Our Neighborhoods: Corporate Courts

Community By Alexandra Herrera, Reporter Wednesday, November 30, 2022

    Corporate Courts is a commerce center on the east side of Miami Lakes, along Northwest 151st Street near Northwest 59th Court.       Numerous businesses and a variety of industries are based at the yellow office park with green trim and awnings.       The complex was built in 1974 and renovated in 1986, according to the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser’s...

37th Annual Main Street Festival of Lights

Community By Alexandra Herrera, Reporter Wednesday, November 30, 2022

     The Aguirre Obando family of Pembroke Pines and Miami Lakes have enjoyed the Main Street Festival of Lights so much that they brought a relative visiting from Costa Rica to the 37th annual event.       “Everything is bigger and nicer [this year],” Estevaly Obando said in Spanish. The family have attended the festival during four previous years and were among those who cheered when Santa...

Our Lady of the Lakes students fill 1,035 bags with Thanksgiving goodies

Education By Linda Trischitta, Editor Wednesday, November 30, 2022

     Seventh and eighth grade students from Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School’s National Junior Honor Society helped fill 1,035 bags with fixings for side dishes to be served at Thanksgiving. The bags of goods donated to the church and school by students and parishioners filled the gym/cafeteria at the school and were to be distributed to needy families by Our Lady of the Lakes, Catholic Charities and other local...

Wyllie shares plans for new housing, health care, sports

Business By Linda Trischitta, Editor Wednesday, November 30, 2022

     Since 1962, The Graham Companies has followed a master plan for the development of its dairy farm into the Town of Miami Lakes.     “It’s kind of unusual for a developer to come up with a plan and stay true to it for all of these years,” Stuart Wyllie, president and chief executive officer of The Graham Companies told the Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce at their Nov. 16 luncheon. ...

Perla Tabares Hantman retires from school board after 26 years

Education By Alexandra Herrera, Reporter Wednesday, November 30, 2022

     Miami-Dade County Public Schools Board Chair Perla Tabares Hantman has been a constant advocate for educators, parents and students for the past 26 years, and she is retiring with a record of accomplishment on their behalf.       Tabares Hantman, did not seek reelection to her District 4 seat.     “It includes my hometown of Miami Lakes, most of the City of Hialeah, Hialeah Gardens...
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