State awards $1.632 million to town for infrastructure projects

Featured By Linda Trischitta, Editor Wednesday, July 16, 2025

     The Town of Miami Lakes saw two appropriations from its funding wish list make it through the most recent state legislative session.       The projects, totaling $1.632 million, are considered priorities...

BGEC participates in 2018 Jumpstart Read for Record

Education Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Bob Graham Education Center (BGEC) announced that the school  participated in the 2018 Jumpstart Read for the Record campaign on Thursday, October 25. This global campaign supports high-quality early learning, and highlights the importance of building children's vocabulary and promoting a love for reading. Children and adults worldwide were scheduled to take action by participating in the world's largest shared reading experience by...

Spanish Lake Elementary introduces MakerSpace

Education Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Spanish Lake Elementary (SLE) has opened a MakerSpace for students in the fifth grade level. A MakerSpace is an area that starts with inquiry. Students come for hands-on, creative ways to encourage them to design, experiment, build and invent. They are deeply engaged in science, engineering and tinkering. This area is filled with objects to enhance problem solving, critical thinking, and most importantly, cooperation. Thanks to Publix...

MLEC students debate over midterm election candidates

Government By Samantha Jimenez, special to The Miami Laker Tuesday, November 20, 2018

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px; font: 10.0px Times}   Students at Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC) proved, once again, that young people are not the uninformed, apathetic generation people make them out to be. The student-run newspaper, The Harbinger and Junior State of America (JSA) hosted a mock gubernatorial debate and a mock senatorial debate four days before election...

Early voting through November 4

Government Thursday, November 1, 2018

 

Voters in Miami Lakes and neighboring communities may cast their ballots during the Early Voting Schedule for the November 6 General Election at the Mary Collins Community Center, 15151 N.W. 82 Avenue in Miami Lakes. The Center will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Sunday, November 4.


Four candidates vie for two Town Council seats

Government Thursday, November 1, 2018

  Four candidates running for two seats on the Miami Lakes Town Council are making their last-minute appeals to voters as the general election is less than five days away. The campaign trails have been filled with grass roots door-to-door and face-to-face meets with residents, endorsement parties and social media attacks, jockeying for position in their respective races for the November 6 election. Attorney Jeffrey Rodriguez and...
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