Mango pie anyone? How about a little mango rice for the kids? Ever tasted a Zebda mango from Egypt or the Champagne mango? Anything mango was the craze at this year's International Mango Festival held at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.
Editor for Coral Gables, South Miami and surrounding areas: Steve Locklin, slocklin@MiamiHerald.com, 305-671-4328
A proposed $250 transport fee for residents who use fire-rescue services to take them to area hospitals has commissioners and residents seeing red.
An idea flitted through Galya, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2000 and has been undergoing chemotherapy treatment ever since: to provide DVD players, headsets and DVDs to cancer treatment centers throughout South Florida.
The firm that operates the historic Biltmore Hotel for Coral Gables wants to build 72 luxury residences on the western edge of the property and an underground public parking garage capable of holding more than 800 cars.
FLAGAMI AREA A thief stole a 2007 Toyota Camry in the 1800 block of Southwest 74th Avenue between 10 p.m. June 28 and 6 a.m. June 29.
Coral Gables taxpayers may have to pay a bit more in taxes next year, but only if their property values rose last year, according to a proposed budget city commissioners will see for the first time at a public workshop Wednesday that calls for the tax rate to stand.
A proposal by the operators of the Biltmore Hotel to build 80 luxury villas and an underground parking facility will go before city leaders Tuesday in Coral Gables, which owns the property and the historic hotel.
On the Fourth of July, I sat writing this letter when what I should have been doing is what I have done from 1998 through 2006 on July 4: preparing to play on the stage behind the Biltmore Hotel with the Greater Miami Symphonic Band, at the patriotic celebration known as ``A Gables Fourth.''
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CORAL GABLES
Colombian business people here and in Latin America who want to renew efforts to get a Free Trade Colombia agreement found allies Friday in Coral Gables.
CRIME BLOTTER
FLAGAMI AREA A thief stole a 2003 Nissan Altima in the 500 block of Northwest 72nd Avenue between 12:30 and 9 a.m. July 3. A thief stole a 1991 Toyota Camry in the 7700 block of West Flagler Street between 2 and 6:30 p.m. July 4.
SOUTH MIAMI
A Miami-Dade Circuit judge ruled Thursday that South Miami doesn't have to have another election despite ''mistakes'' in a Feb. 12 election in which a candidate lost by 24 votes.
CORAL GABLES
No, that was not early morning fireworks on the Fourth of July at the BP gas station on U.S. 1 in Coral Gables. It was gunfire. While there were employees and shoppers in the store at the time -- including an 11-year-old girl -- nobody was injured and the suspected gunman was taken into custody.
RELIGION
A Santeria church leader who says that Coral Gables police officers harassed followers and desecrated a ritual at a resident's home last year has sued the city for public records he says officials are withholding.
