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“A Proud Heritage” Website
Celebrates Carver High Grads

A new website celebrates former graduates of George Washington Carver High School, which opened in the 1920s as a school for African-Americans in Coconut Grove. The web site called A Proud Heritage records the voices of former Carver students who lived under the South’s Jim Crow laws, segregated from whites in all aspects of everyday…

Food Truck Fridays

For the past four Fridays, half a dozen food trucks set-up at the Coconut Grove Bank parking lot and feed hungry customers with their different specialty street food. Some of the customers are employees in the Grove area while some come and visit their friends for lunch and enjoy the shaded tables and relaxing environment.

Grove Blogger-in-Residence Provides Comic Relief

A lifelong resident of Miami, Tom Falco calls Coconut Grove home. Falco is a local cartoonist and maintains the Coconut Grove Grapevine, a local news blog that has become an important news source for the community. Falco got his start in cartooning at an early age. “My first drawing was of Fred Flintstone. I’ve basically…

St. Alban’s Young Authors

In a colorfully decorated classroom surrounded by smiling faces, Dr. Franklin Sands proudly hands a small book to six young students. “This is the book you produced and you authored,” Sands says. “You’re going to keep on writing great books, right?” This book, called Spider-man Saves The Day, was created last spring by Jayden Knowles,…

Commision candidates to take questions from community at forum Oct. 21

OpenMediaMiami.com and the League of Women Voters of Miami-Dade are giving community leaders, residents, and internet users a front row seat to a candidates’ forum on Friday October 21. The forum will be held at the Miami City Hall Commission Chambers for the candidates running for the commission seats of District 1 and 2. The…