At 5 pounds, Mavis the Pomeranian is tiny but mighty, and bosses around Alfie, her bigger Pom brother.      The pair of pups live with Carleen and Bob Spano in Miami Lakes and accompany the couple on trips to North Carolina.       Mavis joined the family last summer.       “We took Alfie to a town event and met someone who raises Pomeranians,”...

      The Miami Lakes Farmer’s Market that happens every Saturday will soon have a new home. Though it was set to move on June 7, the date has been postponed, and is tentatively set for later this month. Still close to Main Street, the vendors will set up two blocks west on Meadow Walk, between Bull Run Road and Miami Lakeway North, next to Graham Park. The move will accommodate construction planned for downtown...

     The headquarters of Miami-Dade County Public Schools is now known as the Perla Tabares Hantman School Board Administration Building.       A new sign bearing the new name was unveiled May 20 in front of members of the school board, Supt. Dr. Jose Dotres and friends and family of the late chairwoman.       Tabares Hantman was 88 when she died March 4.     She served...

 Ciancy Bernal of Miami Lakes is collecting books in the lobby of Town Hall during the month of June as part of a community service project. New and gently used donated books will be distributed to families in the area and at the town’s annual Back to School Fair.      Ciancy, 15, will be a sophomore this fall at Archbishop McCarthy High School in Southwest Ranches, her mother Yancy Bernal said.   ...

     A primary school with decades of history in Miami Lakes is celebrating a year under new ownership and  in a renovated space.       Vanessa Martinez, 33, of Palm Springs North, is director of Montessori Children’s House. She purchased it in 2023 from prior owners Paul and Charlene Thibodeau and opened on June 10, 2024.      The school teaches children who are 12 months old...