Fifth grade students in the Glee Club at Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School sang Christmas carols during the blessing of the Nativity at Miami Lakes Town Hall on Dec. 13. Father Flavio Montes, pastor at Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic Church in Miami Lakes, led the ceremony which was attended by Mayor Manny Cid and about 50 onlookers, the church said. Shown in the photo provided by the school are, from left: Jose Sanoja;...

     The Eagle Nest Center near Main Street in Miami Lakes is a two-story professional building that has banking, surgical, medical and dental tenants as well as a restaurant.      It is owned by The Graham Companies and was built in 2006.        The building, at 15517 NW 67th Ave., has a cream and yellow façade with a barrel tile roof. It anchors the northeast corner of Eagle Nest Lane...

Jennifer Malik, Montgomery, Ala., U.S. Army      “It would actually be for somebody else,” Jennifer Malik said. “It would be that my sister is able to buy her first home. She has two kids and she is a single parent.       “We’re very tight-knit and it would just mean a lot to me, because I know she’s been looking and it’s kind of hard with one...

     Janet Marie Johns DiDonna was so passionate about teaching mathematics to her students at Miami Lakes K-8 Center that they described her as “funny,” able to make “clear explanations” and “patient” and “positive,” too.      So said the proclamation from Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid that celebrated DiDonna’s 30-year teaching career.     ...

     When Jim and Rosalyn Hamilton opened their Miami Lakes Sports Shop nearly five decades ago, she didn’t know a thing about sports or athletic gear.     “But I learned quickly,” former flight attendant Rosalyn Hamilton, 73, said about the business that she ran with staff for five years.      Jim Hamilton was torn between his full-time sales career with Exxon while working...