
Latest reporting from the Community desk.
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Latest reporting from the Community desk.
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Brightline is running late-night trains from MiamiCentral Station after every Kaseya Center concert and select live events through December 2026, giving Aventura Station riders a car-free way home from 18 shows.

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A new Sun Sentinel/Orlando Sentinel poll shows most Florida policyholders see no improvement in the insurance market despite state-backed reforms, a finding that hits especially hard in Aventura's condo-heavy corridor where association premiums have surged 164% since 2021.


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Brightline is running late-night trains from MiamiCentral Station after every Kaseya Center concert and select live events through December 2026, giving Aventura Station riders a car-free way home from 18 shows.

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Brightline is running late-night trains from MiamiCentral Station after every Kaseya Center concert and select live events through December 2026, giving Aventura Station riders a car-free way home from 18 shows.
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View MoreThomas Jardon, 42, the former housing director at Citrus Health Network, faces racketeering and fraud charges after allegedly siphoning $1.2 million in public funds meant for Miami-Dade County homeless services through fake companies and bogus invoices over three years.

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View MoreNearly 4,000 volunteers collected more than 26,000 pounds of trash across 75 Miami-Dade sites during the Sept. 19 International Coastal Cleanup, including a bay site in Aventura where crews pulled plastic litter from the waterline.

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View MoreBrightline and Scouting America will host a Railroading Merit Badge Day on Saturday, Oct. 17, at the MiamiCentral station in downtown Miami, offering South Florida Scouts hands-on learning about rail operations, careers and safety.

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View MoreSunny Isles Beach residents can buy a Friday ticket and get Saturday free for the annual Booogie by the Beach Halloween festival, but the in-person-only early bird deal expires Friday, Sept. 25.

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View MoreTwelve Aventura kosher restaurants and two Sunny Isles Beach spots plan to seat diners in sukkahs when Sukkot begins Friday, Sept. 25, according to a global guide from YeahThatsKosher.

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View MoreNorth Miami Beach is giving away free palm fronds for Sukkot on Sept. 22–23 at the Kevin R. Sims Aquatic Center, about 1.5 miles from Aventura, with a limit of 10 per household.

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View MoreThe Aventura Branch Library has announced more than a dozen free programs running from late September through early October 2026, including a toddler literacy session with Miami-Dade County Commissioner Micky Steinberg, free K-12 tutoring, an Alzheimer's caregiver support group and writers' and computer workshops.

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View MoreChabad Chayil is holding free Rosh Hashanah services at the AWK-8 auditorium in West Aventura, with Rabbi Moishe Kievman explaining why the shofar will stay silent on the holiday's first day this year because it falls on Shabbat.

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View MoreSukkot 2026 runs from sundown Sept. 25 through Oct. 2, and local congregations including Temple Sinai and Young Israel of Sunny Isles Beach are helping families prepare.

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View MoreThe Aventura Arts & Cultural Center has announced five performances for its fall 2026 season, running from an Oct. 4 ballet opener through a Dec. 19 Elvis tribute.

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View MoreTemple Sinai of North Dade published a family guide to Yom Kippur 2026, walking Aventura-area residents through the 25-hour fast, four main services and ways children can participate in the holiest day of the Jewish year, which begins at sundown Sept. 20.

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View MoreThe Greater Miami Jewish Federation's High Holiday Welcome Program is offering free seats at six Aventura-area synagogues for newcomers and residents with financial need, with Rosh Hashana beginning Sept. 11.
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