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• Mayfair Hotel & Spa is getting a makeover

  
    Mayfair Hotel & Spa, the first all-suite boutique hotel in America is undergoing a makeover. All of the 179 suits will receive brand new furniture, fabrics and bedding to provide a fresh, vibrant look.
  
  “The Mayfair is an iconic South [...]
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• Track team still needs your support

  The Grove Track Club still needs your support. They need to raise about $6000.00 by Thursday for a trip to Houston for the Junior Olympics.
  
  They raised almost $13,000.00 of the $18,686.00 needed. The majority of the money, about $9000.00 goes to the bus for 57 passengers and two [...]
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• Safety ambassadors are there for you

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  While you may not see it, the BID's ambassadors are out there keeping the Grove clean and safe. You've seen the around the Grove, in those bright green shirts. They seem as if they are innocently walking around, but they are really doing some great things. While we have talked' [...]
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• Kindermusik offers movement and music classes

  
  Kindermusik by Gymagination is opening it's Coconut Grove location on, Monday, August 6, inside the Miami Conservatory of Music at the Mayfair Promenade.
  
  Kindermusik by Gymagination is a licensed program of Kindermusik International, which has been offering parent/child movement and music [...]
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• Charles Avenue receives historic designation

  Photo courtesy of Headly Westerfield
  At Friday's HEP (Historical and Environmental Preservation) Board meeting, they Board votied 6-0 to honor Charles Avenue by making it an Historic Designation Roadway. As you know, Charles Avenue is the oldest, or one of the oldest streets in Coconut Grove. It's where the Grove' [...]
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• Raising money for the No More Tears Project

  
  Goldie Boutique at 3092 Fuller Street, has a new line of soft t-shirts by designer Somy Ali, a former Bollywood star in India. The shirts, labeled "So Me," are being sold for the No More Tears Project, something very close to [...]
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• Saturday morning running around

  
  Busy Saturday morning. I went to the gym early where I ran into my friend Carlos Lopez-Cantera, who is just finishing up his term as our State Representative in Tallahassee. He had to leave due to term limits. But he is running [...]
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• Grove Track Club members quality for Jr. Olympics

  The Miami Coconut Grove Track Club (MCGTC) -- The Hornets -- is proud to announce that 28 members qualified for the 2012 AAU Junior Olympics in Houston, Texas from July 27 through August 3. Also, many were part of the PeeWee League qualifiers from the 2012 ESPN National Championships in [...]
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• HEP Board declines TreeWatch appeal

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  By a vote of 5-0, the HEP (Historical and Environmental Preservation) Board voted to decline the TreeWatch appeal in regards to the trees slated for replacement on Commodore Plaza as part of the BID's streetscape plan. Apparently they aren't for preserving trees.
  
  Folks spoke on both sides of [...]
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• Rumors, lots of rumors

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  There are so many rumors that go around town, I guess if you mix and match a few, some of it can be true. I get emails all day long with conspiracy theories. I just thought it would be interesting to post some of them here. If any of it [...]
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