The Florida Marketplace Group will present its first Miami Lakes ARTS Festival on April 21. The group runs the popular Farmer’s Market on Saturdays at the corner of Main Street and New Barn Road, which is also where the art show will be set up. “[We’re] hoping to grow it,” Diego Caiola, who runs the market said about the art show. Visitors will find artists and crafters' work on display that will be...

Ahead of the upcoming runoff election, Miami Lakes town council candidates Esther Colon and Bryan Morera will present their campaign positions during a forum at Town Hall on April 25. Former Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas will be the moderator and will accept questions for candidates from residents via email beforehand or during the event. Morera, 32, and Colon, 70, won first and second place respectively in the April 9 special...

President Joe Biden's statement about Bob Graham was posted on the White House website: "Bob Graham was a colleague, friend, and devoted Floridian whose nearly 50 years of service to his beloved home state and to our country have made America a safer and stronger nation.   Bob chose a life of service, working his way up from state legislator, to governor, senator, and presidential candidate. He and I served together...

Bob Graham, one of the patriarchs of Miami Lakes and someone who spent nearly 40 years representing Floridians as a member of the state legislature, then as Governor and eventually as a U.S. Senator, died Tuesday of natural causes in Gainesville, Fla., his family announced. He was 87. Graham’s time in politics began in earnest when he was first elected to the Florida Legislature in 1966. It was essentially uninterrupted until he...

Reaction to the death of former Florida Governor and United States Senator Bob Graham: "Bob Graham…One of America’s finest public servants, Adele’s cherished husband and a devoted father and grandfather has left us for his celestial home. He strongly believed that “a public office is a public trust”. What a legacy! Godspeed Bob Graham." — Former Sen. Bill Nelson, 14th NASA...