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November 01, 2023 2:25 pm • Last Updated: November 02, 2023 7:18 am

Isabel Mugovero, from left, joins her grandmother Yvonne Miranda, mother Tabatha Miranda, owner of Cafe SoL, and sister Miranda Mugovero as customers and friends join in a “moving parade” as Cafe SoL starts the move from 346 Main St. to 488 Main St. in Niantic on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Customers and friends wait with loaded up wagons for the “moving parade” to start as Cafe SoL starts the move from 346 Main St. to 488 Main St. in Niantic on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Colin Mason, of Woodbury, plays a bass drum as customers and friends join in a “moving parade” as Cafe SoL starts the move from 346 Main St. to 488 Main St. in Niantic. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Ed Lilienthal, of Niantic, and other customers and friends load up their wagons to help Cafe SoL move. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Joshua Maclellan, of Montville, carries chairs as customers and friends join in a “moving parade” for Cafe SoL. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Isabel Mugovero hangs the open flag at Cafe SoL’s new location as her mother Tabatha Miranda, the cafe’s owner, looks on after a “moving parade” to this site at 488 Main St. in Niantic, the former home of the Silver Skate. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Notes from customers and friends at Cafe SoL, as the business leaves this site to a new one in Niantic. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Mary Ann Heenehan writes a note on the wall of the former site of Cafe SoL. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Isabel Mugovero, left, and her sister Miranda Mugovero are joined by their mother Tabatha Miranda, center, owner of Cafe SoL, as customers and friends join in a “moving parade” as Cafe SoL starts the move from 346 Main St. to 488 Main St. in Niantic on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Customers and friends help load items into Cafe SoL’s new location at 488 Main St. in Niantic on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Justine Nicoloe Wheeler, a family friend, dances during Cafe SoL’s “moving parade” on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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East Lyme ― Nearly 100 friends and customers of Cafe SoL took to the sidewalks Wednesday morning, pulling wheelbarrows full of mugs, pushing wagons piled with boxes of tea, carrying chairs and putting tins of coffee beans in their bags as the business started its move from its current location at 346 Main St. to its new home at 488 Main St.

Drivers turned their heads as they noticed the unusual sight in Niantic. A passing bike rider stopped and pitched in.

The move comes after the planned demolition of the 346 Main St. location to make room for the latest mixed use project from builder and investor David Preka.

Renovations are underway at the former Silver Skate building, which has been painted deep blue, and Cafe SoL owner Tabatha Miranda hopes to reopen soon.

Miranda wore a yellow headband shaped like the sun as she helped customers load and clear out the store room. She said the real move would start next week.

“We had a lot of customers who asked how they could help,” she said. “It started as a joke. I would tell them to bring a wagon. Now they’re here.”

Just before 11 a.m., a line led out the door of the cafe as employees helped load bags and wagons for participants. Some visitors signed the yellow walls on their way out with black markers.

“We started with you when we were moving,” wrote Mary Ann Heenehan of Niantic.

She and her husband would walk to the cafe when they moved to town for cups of coffee to fuel unpacking sessions or meals when their kitchen was being worked on.

“Now we get to help them,” she said.

Miranda’s face was full of tears as she led the parade up the sidewalk the 0.2 miles. She linked arms with her mother, Yvonne Miranda, and daughters Isabel Mugovero, who carried the open flag, and Miranda Mugovero, who was dressed as the circus ringleader. Family friend Justine Nicole Wheeler was dressed in bright yellow and danced alongside them as Colin Mason played a bass drum.

A line wrapped around the building as the community members helped unload at the new location.

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