Mayor Manny Cid and the Miami Lakes Town Council proclaimed April as Autism Awareness Month during the April regular council meeting. Pictured (from left) Councilmember Luis Collazo, Vice Mayor Nelson Rodriguez, Councilmembers Jose Dieguez, Carlos O. Alvarez, Marilyn Ruano and Jeffrey Rodriguez, Cid, Silvia Gil of UMNSU-CARD, and Special Needs Advisory Board members Lisbeth Coto, Yesse Leyra and Vivian Levy.

As of April 19, the Miami Lakes Connect mobile app is now available for iOS and Android users.Powered by SeeClickFix, Miami Lakes Connect allows residents to submit quality of life concerns on the Town of Miami Lakes website, mobile applications (iPhone, Android), call center, and Facebook.When submitting requests, residents can provide locational, descriptive and photographic information for the issue in real time. The platform provides town...

All landscape maintenance vendors at Town of Miami Lakes park properties, right of ways, medians, cul de sacs and landscape areas are no longer utilizing products containing glyphosate as of April 1, according to a news release from the town.An initiative proposed by Councilmember Jeffrey Rodriguez to restrict the use of this product due to the evidence about the dangerous exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides was discussed at the December...

In an effort to expand Miami-Dade County’s tree canopy by leveraging local resources, Neat Streets Miami awarded the Town of Miami Lakes a Street Tree Matching Grant in the amount of $37,422.55 for the Miami Lakes West Lake Reforestation Phase 3 Project.In its fourth year, Neat Streets Miami’s street tree program awarded 15 organizations matching grants to advance the Million Trees initiative, a community-wide effort to achieve a 30 percent...

Miami Lakes Sports Shop, 6811 Main Street, is celebrating its 46th anniversary, and though it recently moved just 70 feet away from the original location, the services will never change.The store’s owners, Jim and Roslyn Hamilton, are running the location with their daughter-in-law, Barbara Hamilton, the shop’s manager and team sports specialist.“We are a family business that specializes in customer services, competitive prices, convenient...