It’s the season when cookie monsters rejoice!         Bakers create with ingredients that reflect the holiday season which is almost here.       Do you have a favorite, original cookie recipe? Perhaps one that has been handed down through the generations of your family?        Is there a cookie that must be made each December, otherwise it...

     The public is invited to celebrate the fifth class to be inducted to the Miami Lakes Sports Hall of Fame during a ceremony to be held Dec. 10.      The event will honor athletes and those who have coached or mentored youth sports, who have ties to town.      The new class members are the late Charlie DeLucca, Sr., a youth golf ambassador and children’s advocate; retired NBA point...

     What did you do on your vacation? Did you fly above Oludeniz, Turkey, like Patricia Gonzalez did during a two-week trip in that country in September?      “I always like to do something adventurous on vacation,” said Gonzalez, who is president of Hemisphere Title Company in Miami Lakes. She is shown in the photo above, paragliding with a tour operator.      She...

      Marcelino Sotolongo has a daily routine: He greets the dawn on his way to hand-feed turtles and fish at his Lake Patricia home in Miami Lakes.      “I have an entourage,” Sotolongo, 61, joked about the wildlife that greets him each day.      A Miami Laker who has lived in the same home since 1999, Sotolongo said, “I take a lot of sunrise photos. I love my community....

      Abi Rose, a Cairn Terrier mix, had been returned to her rescue organization because her former owners said she was hyperactive and bothered other dogs.       But now she is sitting pretty after Elsa and Rafael Bergolla, who live in the Royal Oaks East community in Miami Lakes, adopted her.       “We love her to pieces,” Elsa Bergolla said of her 2-year-old pet. “She is...