The 2025 edition of Coconut Grove’s favorite parade was just as crazy as you’d want it to be.
Spotlight Staff
Obituary: Jereline Blacknell Ewing
An educator and an advocate for youth, Ewing was 90 years old.
Little Bahamas Photo Project
Amateur photographers are invited to participate in a four-hour workshop and photo shoot in Coconut Grove on Sunday, January 12 to capture images of the Grove’s Little Bahamas neighborhood for a permanent digital collection maintained by the Library of Congress. The workshop is being organized by Aarti Mehta-Kroll, assistant director[Read More…]
Special Outings for Visitors
Everglades National Park can provide out-of-town guests—and you too—with a day that balances the energy of Miami and its beaches with the quietude of the ‘river of grass’. Although the variety within the park is truly enormous, a few easily accessible spots may be a perfect introduction for your visitors.[Read More…]
Little Free Libraries: Tiny book exchange cabinets serve as voluntary libraries among neighbors.
Sharing a good book with a neighbor can spread goodwill through both the giving and receiving. Shenandoah, Silver Bluffs and Coconut Grove are home to many Little Free Libraries—neighborhood book-exchange boxes installed and maintained by volunteer neighbors. In fact, the official Little Free Library website map indicates that the Spotlight’s[Read More…]
Stocking stuffers
The holidays are upon us so quickly this year and perhaps a few last-minute gift ideas might help you fill some stockings and bring year-round memories.
The Faces of Coconut Grove
Miami Art Week came and went quickly – so quickly, in fact, that some Spotlight readers may have missed Village Voices, a one-night-only photography exhibition at the Shake-a-Leg hangar on South Bayshore Drive. The show featured 32 photographs of Coconut Grove faces and places taken by eight University of Miami[Read More…]
Publishers’ Update
Dear Spotlight Readers, Today we ask you to click this link to contribute to the Spotlight and make the Coconut Grove you love better for us all. Thank you. While you do that, Spotlight reporters, writers, photographers and editors are digging into City Hall, investigating developers’ plans, interviewing neighbors and[Read More…]
From the Spotlight’s Publishers
Dear Spotlight Readers, Six months and 52 issues ago your neighborhood Spotlight transitioned from the work of a single exemplary Grovite—Hank Sanchez-Resnik—to a community news organization run by a board of seasoned journalists and professionals. New technology now enables first class writers to deliver hyper-local and personally relevant news twice[Read More…]
Local Election Results
Miami-Dade County Commissioner Raquel Regalado easily defeated challenger Cindy Lerner on Tuesday to win a second four-year term as the county’s District 7 commissioner. Regalado captured 57% of the vote in the nonpartisan race. Regalado was forced to compete a second time this year against the former mayor of Pinecrest[Read More…]
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