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  • All-Grove Crime Watch meets this Wednesday

    The All-Grove Crime Watch will hold its monthly meeting Wednesday night, November 11 (2nd Wed. of each month) at 7 PM at St. Stephen’s Church, 2750 McFarlane Road, in the Great Room in the rear of the church grounds. Even though November 11 is Veteran’s Day and an official federal holiday, we will hold the…

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  • June Village Council Rundown

    June Village Council Rundown

    The June Coconut Grove Village Council meeting focused on new developments, improvements, and changes in the Grove. The most surprising change announced at the meeting was the resignation of CGVC Chairman Patrick Sessions who shocked the council with a prepared statement that cited unforeseen occurrences in his personal and business life as his reason for…

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  • Open letter from Stephen Murray to Commissioner Gimenez regarding Affordable/Workforce Housing Project

    Open letter from Stephen Murray to Commissioner Gimenez regarding Affordable/Workforce Housing Project

    Dear Commissioner Gimenez, I would like to express my formal support of the proposed affordable housing project in Coconut Grove. After meetings with various stakeholders to discuss the plan, I now believe it is crucial that we as a community join together to back this project and allow it to go forward as soon as…

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  • An empty lot stands on 3695 Grand Ave. The lot was purchased in 1994 for $160,000 and sold in 2008 for $750,000. Photo by Brittney Bomnin

    Grove agency’s departure leaves questions, concerns, calls for audit

    A neighborhood organization created 30 years ago to boost economic development in the West Grove has been missing in action in the community and is no longer receiving funding from its major contributor, the city of Miami. According to public records provided by the city, the Urban Empowerment Corporation, whose mission was to create jobs…

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  • Coconut Grove Village Council Meeting Rundown for May

    Coconut Grove Village Council Meeting Rundown for May

    UPDATED The May Coconut Grove Village Council Meeting included updates from community leaders, discussions about new developments and changes with Coconut Grove Sailing Club membership and information about an event to honor Grove peacocks.

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  • Chairman of the Coconut Grove Village Council invites residents to participate

    Chairman of the Coconut Grove Village Council invites residents to participate

    In response to criticism from the residents of Coconut Grove, Patrick Sessions, Chairman of the Coconut Grove Village Council has released a statement inviting them to be more active in the council. In a letter that outlines the turbulent beginning of this new Council, Sessions reaffirms that the Council also represents the residents and asked…

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  • Grove Wall of Fame will be built, says community leader

    For the past four years, the West Grove community has nominated role models whose names will be memorialized on a much heralded Wall Walk of Fame. There have been four Coconut Grove Wall Walk of Fame breakfasts where the awardees have received the community’s applause. But the wall that is supposed to contain the honorees’…

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  • Upcoming meeting: All-Grove Crime Watch

    The next All-Grove Crime Watch meeting will be held at St. Stephen’s Church on Wednesday, April 14, at 7 p.m. The meeting will take place in the Great Room near the back of the church, 2750 McFarlane Rd. Sponsored in part by the Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, the meetings are held on the second Wednesday of…

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  • Grove Village Council might get back
    City Hall meeting place

    The Coconut Grove Village Council still is without a permanent meeting place, but a decision might come as early as this week about whether the group can return to City Hall. The Village Council was forced to move its monthly meetings from City Hall after Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado, who was elected in November, said…

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  • Village Council still without a permanent meeting place

    A new policy from Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado has forced the Cocoanut Grove Village Council to change its meeting location from City Hall to Ransom Everglades Middle School, where the council met on Jan. 21 for its first meeting of the year. “It is unfathomable to me that the Village Council has had our meeting…

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