Hyperlocal news for Coral Gables, South Miami, and Pinecrest, Florida
Hyperlocal news for Coral Gables, South Miami, and Pinecrest, Florida
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Local Government
Former TV anchor Eliott Rodriguez won the FL-27 Democratic primary, Bruno Barreiro edged Frank Lago by 72 votes for the HD-113 Republican nomination, and Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins secured her final term in District 8 after Tuesday's Aug. 18 primary.
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Former TV anchor Eliott Rodriguez won the FL-27 Democratic primary, Bruno Barreiro edged Frank Lago by 72 votes for the HD-113 Republican nomination, and Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins secured her final term in District 8 after Tuesday's Aug. 18 primary.
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Local Government
Former TV anchor Eliott Rodriguez won the FL-27 Democratic primary, Bruno Barreiro edged Frank Lago by 72 votes for the HD-113 Republican nomination, and Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins secured her final term in District 8 after Tuesday's Aug. 18 primary.
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Local Government
Florida's Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act requires all public high school students who entered ninth grade in 2023-24 or later to complete a half-credit personal finance course before graduating, affecting students at Coral Gables Senior High, Miami Palmetto Senior High, and area magnet schools.
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Former Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro has listed his Bali-inspired Pinecrest estate for $11.99 million following his trade to the Milwaukee Bucks, closing his seven-year chapter in South Florida.
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Beatriz Kohn's 2004 sculpture "Rebuilding Motherland," depicting a Guajira woman mending a torn Venezuelan flag, is now on view in the Coral Gables Museum courtyard, where it carries fresh weight after the June 24 earthquakes that killed at least 188 people in Venezuela.
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Coral Gables now operates 75 fully electric vehicles in its municipal fleet, marking a decade since the city purchased its first EVs in 2016, with expansion into police vehicles, garbage trucks, and public charging infrastructure.
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Coral Gables would gain a nearly six-acre Centennial Park, its largest ever, under a proposed 30-year development agreement with the University of Miami that also allows campus expansion and potential hospital use along Ponce de Leon Boulevard.
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Coral Gables has emptied its 1928 City Hall for a restoration budgeted at up to $30 million that could take three years, relocating city officials and commission meetings to the public safety building on Salzedo Street.
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Dade County Federal Credit Union awarded $18,000 in scholarships to 12 South Florida graduates through its inaugural "Scholars Who Serve" program, including Taylor Holton from Miami Palmetto Senior High in Pinecrest; applications reopen in January 2027.
Local Government
The Pinecrest Village Council votes Tuesday, July 14, on a resolution authorizing Village Manager Yocelyn Galiano to negotiate a management agreement with Miami Culinary Kitchen for the Pinecrest Farmers Market, formalizing an arrangement with the company that already appears to run the popular 80-vendor Sunday market.
Local Government
SW 120 Street between SW 74 Court and SW 72 Avenue in Pinecrest closes Wednesday, July 15, for approximately two weeks of sewer line work, with official detours routed through SW 124 Street.
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Miami-Dade School Board member Luisa Santos directed the district to modernize how it sets attendance boundaries and communicates changes to Coral Gables, Pinecrest, and South Miami families, with findings due to a board committee this month.
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Miami-Dade Fire Rescue issued a summer boating safety advisory after state data showed the county ranked second in Florida for boating accidents in 2025, with 65 reported incidents.
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Takay, a 10-seat Edomae omakase counter founded by Glen Kotlyarski and Yoni Matz, opens Friday, July 10, at 2296 Coral Way with a 17-course, $250-per-person tasting menu and two nightly seatings Wednesday through Sunday.
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