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Melbourne Beachsider

Visually impaired resident appeals for expansion of county bus fleet

Melbourne resident Maria Rigogliosi has to get to her street corner, at Post and Croton roads, by 6:25 ...

Melbourne Beachsider

Brevard logo tweak planned in nod to visually impaired

Brevard County commissioners aren’t typically in the business of designing works of art. But a majority agreed last ...

Melbourne Beachsider

Lively GOP primary race shaping up for clerk of court

Rachel Sadoff and Sandy Ruizzo each want to succeed veteran Brevard County Clerk of Court Scott Ellis, who ...

Melbourne Beachsider

2020 VISION: Key local/state races to keep an eye on

While Florida and the rest of the nation ponder the start of the 2020 presidential primary races, it’s ...

Melbourne Beachsider

Clerk of Court Ellis, longtime public servant, to retire in ’20

With almost 20 years in office and a near-encyclopedic memory of Brevard County politics and government, Clerk of ...

Melbourne Beachsider

County curbs bid to increase beach access for dogs

Melbourne Beach residents Donna Post and Charlotte Hertz won’t be exercising their dogs on Brevard County beaches – ...

Melbourne Beachsider

Altman: Think carefully before ditching landfill site

State Rep. Thad Altman is taking a dim view of Brevard County commissioners’ choice to look at buying ...

Melbourne Beachsider

Brevard agrees hiring deputies is ‘critical need’

Brevard County commissioners have agreed to bust their voter-approved budget-increase cap so Sheriff Wayne Ivey can hire all ...

Melbourne Beachsider

Dog owners howl for more access to county beaches

The morning of April 3 was much like any other when Indigo Cove resident Donna Post decided to ...

Melbourne Beachsider

New construction boom helps lower property owners’ taxes

The average Brevard County property owner this fall may be paying almost 8 percent less in property taxes ...

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Commission balks at new landfill pitch

Almost 30 years ago, former Brevard County commissioners spent $10 million to wrestle a 3,000-acre section of ranchland ...

Melbourne Beachsider

Neighbors of landfill gripe about debris

Melbourne resident James Hines says he opened his Big Boy Toy Storage on Skyway Circle in 1997 to ...