Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Community
Friends of Cape Florida hosts a free National Lighthouse Day celebration at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park on Friday, Aug. 7, marking the 200th anniversary year of Miami-Dade's oldest standing structure with tower climbs, a museum, music, and holograms.
Community
Public registration for the 25th anniversary Life Time Miami Marathon opens Sunday, August 2, for the January 31, 2027, race that routes through Coconut Grove and out the Rickenbacker Causeway toward Key Biscayne.
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Coconut Grove activist Andy Parrish is urging the Miami City Commission to amend the NCD-3 zoning code after a 2019 court ruling declared its tree-canopy and historic-preservation intent language legally unenforceable.
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Coconut Grove teen Ginger Seabrook, great-great-granddaughter of neighborhood founder Commodore Ralph Munroe, earned a Girl Scout Gold Award for creating a tour-guide manual and contributing to the Coconut Grove Roots smartphone app, which maps nearly 40 historic sites along the five-mile Commodore Trail.
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Artist applications for the 63rd Coconut Grove Arts Festival are open through September 11, with 285 spots available for the February 2027 waterfront show that generated $4.4 million in sales and awarded more than $100,000 in scholarships last year.
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The Virginia Key Beach Park Trust will break ground on a long-delayed $20.5 million museum at Historic Virginia Key Beach Park on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, marking the end of more than two decades of stalled progress on preserving the story of Miami's segregation-era Black beach.
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Barbara Lange has applied for historic designation of her 1925 home at 3901 Braganza Ave. in Coconut Grove's South Grove, winning unanimous preliminary approval from Miami's preservation board on July 7 as redevelopment reshapes the neighborhood.
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Miami-Dade County will give away more than 2,500 free trees to eligible homeowners on Saturday, July 25, at FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus in North Miami, a practical drive from Key Biscayne and Coconut Grove.
Community
Key Biscayne Park Supervisor Vincent Yacuzzi, who placed second at the 2022 IPL World Championship, received a "Rising Star" award from Village Manager Steve Williamson on July 1 after making a visible impact on the island's parks in his first six months on the job.
Community
A University of Miami School Health Initiative program trained 30 high school students to deliver peer-led suicide awareness presentations during the 2025-26 year and is seeking funding to expand to additional Miami-Dade campuses as the new school year begins Thursday, Aug. 13.
Community
ECO Planet Earth opened its second Legacy Garden at The Barnyard community center in Coconut Grove's West Grove on Wednesday, July 16, installing raised beds with AC water-recycling technology alongside a new mural by artist Tierra Armstrong, with plans for nine more gardens at Black churches across the neighborhood.
Community
Friends of The Underline has shortlisted four artists for the inaugural Plinth sculpture project at Coconut Grove's Inter Grove Gallery, with community input expected later in 2026 before a spring 2027 installation.
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