The Miami Lakes Optimist Club is opening spring registration for NFL Youth Flag Football, online, from Feb. 13 – March 13.      The sport is for children ages 5 – 17.      Cost is $115 for town residents, $135 for non-residents.      Registration includes an NFL jersey, shorts and all equipment.      Head coaches receive $50 off...

          In 55 years of chasing golf balls around South Florida courses, Robert “Bob” Stamen never made a hole-in-one.      That is, until Jan. 14.      Stamen, 65, was with friends playing a round at The Senator Course at Don Shula’s Golf Course in Miami Lakes, which he visits about 10 times a...

     The Florida Dairy Farmers chose Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School volleyball head coach Elsa Lopez Class 6A Coach of the Year for volleyball.       Lopez led the girls team to the 2020 Class 6A State Championship in November and the school’s first state title in girls volleyball.      The Lady Lions finished the season 9-2, which was shortened due to the...

Boy Scouts from Troop 566 of Our Lady of the Lakes conducted a formal flag retirement ceremony in front of Miami Lakes Town Hall on Jan. 19. The flag burning was done with permission of the town and is the proper disposal process for American flags, a ritual that the scouts learn about and practice.      The scouts saluted each old or tattered flag before it was retired, Scoutmaster Sean Schwinghammer...

     The Miami Lakes council honored former Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban Bovo Jr., for his years of public service in January and helping deliver funds and services that benefitted the town.      “To all of our residents, I think we were very very fortunate to have a commissioner the last several years who’s a workhorse, somebody who truly represented our town well,” Mayor Manny...