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A Feb. 22 shooting ended a six-month lull in violent crime, but most of the 56 incidents reported over the past month involved theft, disputes and other nonviolent offenses.
When construction projects close sidewalks, pedestrians are pushed into traffic — often with deadly consequences.
With café seating spreading along a public pedestrian-only promenade in Center Grove, a looming redesign is raising questions about public access, permits and who decides how the space will be used.
“It was bad. It was extremely bad,” one resident said when testifying in court about the smoke and ash that choked her neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s before the City of Miami closed its Old Smokey incinerator on Jefferson Street.
Miami officials cite a largely untested state law as they back away from a promise by District 2 Commissioner Damian Pardo to block Grove properties from buying or selling housing density tied to affordable housing construction.
A long-dormant stretch of Grand Avenue in the West Grove is alive with the sounds of construction, rekindling community concerns about gentrification.
Public school athletic programs across Miami-Dade are struggling to keep pace with well-funded private school rivals, as shrinking enrollment, limited budgets and transfer rules reshape the high school sports landscape.
After eight years of legal wrangling, a Miami-Dade County judge will decide whether the lawsuit over toxic contamination tied to the Old Smokey incinerator in Coconut Grove can proceed as a class action.
Alan Cohen, the A.C. behind A.C.’s Icees, celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday in Kennedy Park, where he has been serving chilled icees for more than four decades.
As she marks her centennial year, Lucienne Sanchez looks back on a remarkable life of global travel, humanitarian work and neighborhood leadership that helped shape the Coconut Grove she calls home.
