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  • “A Proud Heritage” Website Celebrates Carver High Grads

    “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…

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  • Youth Programs Provide An Ounce of Prevention

    Located centrally on Grand Avenue is the Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, a nonprofit organization, whose Youth Violence Prevention Program is one of many it offers to community members. “The youth program started in 2003 as the Girls Group consisting of high school students funded by the Women’s Fund,” said Maya Holton, coordinator for Youth and…

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  • Community Health and Education Fair

    Community Health and Education Fair

    The Coconut Grove Community Health and Education Fair on Saturday, November 12 kicked off with a neighborhood beautification project and finished with food and games for children during the day on Saturday, November 12 in the Esther Mae Armbrister Park. The event was sponsored by University of Miami Law School and Center for Ethics and…

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  • West Grove Honors Veterans

    West Grove Honors Veterans

    Well wishers waved from the sidewalks and cars on Grand Avenue stopped as the American Legion Post #182 and friends led this year’s West Grove Veterans Day parade from Christ Episcopal/Anglican church to Coconut Grove Cemetery. Recently reelected City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff and Coconut Grove Village Council member Renita Ross Samuels-Dixon joined the marchers led…

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  • Food Truck Fridays

    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.

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  • Grovetober Festival

    Grovetober Festival

    Miami held its very own Oktoberfest in the Grove called Grovetoberfest. Beer enthusiasts came to sample beers from across the country and the world. The event featured live music, cooking lessons and an array of food trucks.

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  • Serving the Grove For Close to a Century

    Donna, Cleo, Betsy, Andrew, Irene, Frances, and Wilma. All of these hurricanes threatened South Florida at one point or other in the last 80 years, and one hardware store was there to supply the tarps, flash lights, hammers and nails needed to prepare for their visit: Shell Lumber and Hardware. On the corner of Southwest…

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  • Grove Blogger-in-Residence Provides Comic Relief

    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…

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  • Come Sail Away With Me

    For over 60 years, the Coconut Grove Sailing Club has been providing sailing classes to the residents of Coconut Grove. But its mission has been expanding, and now it is reaching out to sailors beyond South Florida. To show appreciation for those who serve in the United States Armed Forces, the club is offering a…

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  • One Cool Skatepark To Offer Music Lessons

    Coconut Grove’s One Cool World Skatepark is planning to get a whole lot cooler: The park is building a music department that will offer children music lessons in a variety of instruments. Skate park owner Gregg Hinds has already secured one of the two buildings required to make the project a reality.

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