Residents can now vote for their favorite businesses during the finalist round for the Best of Miami Lakes. Voting for this round is open until Oct. 17, with the winners being announced on Oct. 25. The competition now in its ninth year is run by the town’s Economic Development Committee and spotlights small businesses in the community ahead of Small Business Saturday in November. Small Business Saturday encourages people to...

     Don Bailey Jr., Joe Weber, Rivers Demby and Karyna Cid will be inducted into the Miami Lakes Sports Hall of Fame later this year, after their enshrinements were unanimously approved by the town council on Aug. 19.      They will compose the eighth class in the hall’s history.       Bailey and Demby were selected as community builders, Weber as a coach and Cid as an...

     The Freedom Tower, a Spanish Renaissance-style building in downtown Miami, is a national historic landmark that turns 100 this year.      The 17-story building has been home to two newspapers and from 1962 - 1974, was the site of the Cuban Assistance Center, where thousands of refugees received asylum paperwork, food, health care and money.        “The Freedom Tower, I always...

     The Cultural Affairs Committee presented attorney and author Christina Diaz Gonzalez, who spoke about her books at Town Hall on Sept. 4. Her novel for young readers, “The Red Umbrella,” is based on her family’s experience during Operation Pedro Pan.       It was an exodus of more than 14,000 children who were sent alone in the early 1960s from Cuba to the United States by families...

Ignacio Segovia  Owner, Mental Performance 365 Cooper City       “I’m very proud that we are passionate about life, we’re very creative people … we are not only passionate for new projects, but new people, we love people,” Ignacio Segovia said. “I think we Latinos not only work all the time, we like to see our motivation and passion. And I’m very proud of...