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West Coconut Grove Real Estate Update

The real estate market in the West Grove has been rather tumultuous over the past 5 years. We have seen the market plagued by many short sales and foreclosures which have unfortunately affected the property values in the area. As of today there are 33 single family homes on the market in the West Grove. …

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Team Generation Outreach will be holding its 2nd Annual Benefit and Performance on August 7th

Team Generation Outreach will be holding its 2nd Annual Benefit and Performance on August 7th at 5pm at Ransom Everglades Upper School. Team G.O. is a non-profit organization that provides life altering opportunities, built on the principles of Civic Engagement. We are dedicated to enhancing the lives of underprivileged individuals through continuous fundraising and community…

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YouNiversity of Miami: Grovers

Your roommate might be one. That kid sitting next to you in biology? Maybe. That group of cute girls stumbling back at 3 a.m. into the freshman dorms? Definitely. While during the day they may look and act just like anybody else, a different species has begun to rapidly evolve at our university - Grovers. The Grove has…

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An Evening of Beauty in Fashion and Songs

Labor Day. Baseball season turning into football season. First day of school. All of these events are reasons to wave goodbye to summer and welcome autumn with its cooler temperatures. On , August 22, 2010, Back-to-School Eve, at 4:00 pm, the Usher Ministry of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church of Miami, Inc., (the oldest African-American church…

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Local teens dedicated to help the community

Inspiration was sparked in college freshmen and Coconut Grove natives, Zena Stephens, graduated of Ransom Everglades Upper School and student of Oglethorpe University, and Paige Humphrey, graduate of Coral Gables High School and student of University of Central Florida on May 9th, 2010. This spark grew into a fire overnight forming Team G.O, Generation Outreach….

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On being stopped by the cops and other grievances

I am a part-time U.S. census worker. On Saturday, May 22, I was walking from the 3400 block on Day Avenue, where I had parked my car, toward McDonald Street to look for addresses that I had to do in my census binder. Two Miami-Dade police officers passed me headed in the same direction. As…

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Grand Ave. News block party rekindles fond memories of Virrick Park

The block party arranged by University of Miami Professor Colee Splichal and her public relations students on April 17 to promote Grand Ave. News has created a community connection between the university and the West Grove that I hope will become even stronger. What a beautiful event the students put on for us following a…

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Op-Ed: The Grand Plan

Is development of Coconut Grove’s Village West community a shared vision of residents, experts and developers, or is it the sole purview of well-financed developers and their political toadies? The historical residents in this Coconut Grove community, which has been known as “Colored Town”, “Black Grove”, “West Grove” and “Coconut Grove Village West” have longed…

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Ideas for Cities: a GOOD blog

GOOD is a blog that describes themselves as a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward. We don’t have such grand ideas. But if we can collaborate and push Village West forward, it will be good too. They recently came out with a blog called “Ideas for Cities,” a collection of smart…

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