The regular monthly meeting of Coconut Grove Village West Homeowners and Tenants Association (HOATA) held September 28 was highlighted by presentations from seven of the 17 candidates running for the nine open seats on the Coconut Grove Village Council.
According to the All Grove Crime Watch, trash pickup was rescheduled for today (Sept. 30, 2009) along several routes in the West Grove, most recently known as the Village west. This is what the Solid Waste Department sent to the crime watch, which we in turn bring you to. Here is the list for the…
When Everett Lyn Fatt Sr. and his wife, Patricia, moved from Kingston, Jamaica to set up their family business on Grand Avenue, they brought with them a proven recipe for success – pepper steak, fried shrimp and rice, wings and fries. For more than three decades, the Fatts have provided Chinese Jamaican cuisine in the…
Calvin Williams used to stand at Douglas Road and Grand Avenue selling ribs, chicken and collard greens to residents and visitors to the Village West community. “There was a time when in this town here everybody used to do it,” said Williams, a life-long resident of the community known as the West Grove. But in…
Bonna Cooper remembers the rolls of paper covered in graffiti artwork stretched across the walls of her cafe shop. She remembers the dancing shadows of the candlelight that glowed from each table. And, she remembers the feeling of peace and tranquility that filled the air the first night community youth gathered at her business in…
Accompanied by his young son, West Grove native NFL star and former University of Miami Hurricane Frank Gore recently paid a recent visit to a place that gives him not only a taste of home but home-style cooking. Although the running back for the 49ers now lives in San Francisco, Gore likes to stop by…
Inside a small, mint-green room at the Greater St. Paul AME Church, Maeva Renaud waits to address an eager audience filled with teens and young adults. Renaud makes her way from her second-row seat to the front of the room, where she recites a passage not from the Holy Book but from her own book…
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