Miami Lakes Town Manager Edward Pidermann, Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Maj. Jose Gonzalez and Mayor Josh Dieguez walked up and down Miami Lakes Drive on March 14 to study traffic patterns during the morning rush hour and see how traffic lights were synchronized again.      The trio watched the coordinated signals and vehicles stopping less frequently along the town’s main road as well as at Northwest...

     Adriana Kruger loves cats.       “When they die, we suffer,” she said.       For a while, she and her husband Robert Kruger had a cat that lived outdoors, but when they returned from a vacation he was gone.       “I missed him, and I wanted another cat,” she said.      She was in luck: A neighbor’s cat had a...

       Monsignor Edward Pace High School in Miami Gardens inducted Fred Senra into its Hall of Fame. The school said last fall that Senra, a partner at Miami Lakes AutoMall who served on Pace’s Advisory Board, has dedicated five decades to the community.      “His commitment to giving back is a legacy that continues to shine,” the school said in a newsletter. Fred and Maggie...

     Miami Lakes Mayor Josh Dieguez and Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser Tomas Regalado presented an outreach event at Town Hall on March 20.       County staff met with residents to answer questions about property tax benefits and exemptions.      Deputy Property Appraiser Lazaro Solis, Town Manager Edward Pidermann, Town Clerk Gina Inguanzo and Rudy Blanco, counsel for the Miami Lakes...

Miami Lakes Mayor Josh Dieguez held the first Morning with Medics on Feb. 19 at Vanilla Espresso French Café.  The event welcomes residents to meet paramedics from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue to chat and learn more about the department and what its firefighters do, as well as the community outreach the department does around Miami-Dade County.  The concept is modeled on Coffee with a Cop events that are held in town. In the photo,...