Supporters joined attorney Gloria M. Garcia at the Lights of Hope display and cancer fundraiser at Miami Lakes Town Hall on Aug. 27. It was a night to honor and remember those who were taken by the disease as well as pay tribute to those who are fighting it. Each personalized bag represented a cancer story, including that of Garcia’s sister, Maria D. “Mayoyi” Garcia, Garcia said. Garcia and Marie Korenstein, who is also...

    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.      Snacks and transportation will be provided.       Aftercare costs $60 per week with no registration fee for residents; non-residents will pay $36 to...

Commuters who drive the Palmetto Expressway will want to note a relocation of the entrance for the southbound express lanes that takes effect the weekend of Oct. 11.      Instead of entering the expressway at Northwest 67th Avenue to access the southbound express lanes, drivers in Miami Lakes and Hialeah may enter the express lanes at Northwest 103rd Street/West 49th Street. The Florida Dept. of Transportation says the...

The public gathered outside Miami Lakes Town Hall in tribute to those whose lives were lost during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and those who contracted fatal illnesses -- police, firefighters and others -- and died years later. The Veterans and Public Safety committees presented the event that was sponsored by Vicky Bakery; BB’s Bakehouse; AC Graphics Digital and the Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce. Ria Monae sang the...

     The Miami Lakes council kept the town tax rate flat in its first vote on the levy for property owners.      During the first budget hearing held on Sept. 12, the elected officials set the millage rate at 2.0732 for the 2024-2025 fiscal year.        It’s the same millage rate as the current budget year. It will cost $2.07 per every $1,000 of a property’s taxable...