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Fighting Indians’ season opener in jeopardy after football players quarantine

Vero Beach High School is considering canceling its Sept. 11 football game at Venice High School because “a significant number” of players were quarantined after being exposed to a student who tested positive for COVID-19. Altogether 46 students at Vero Beach High were directed to quarantine for 14 days and continue their studies virtually on a computer because district health officials determined they had been in close contact with the student who tested positive, said District spokeswoman Cristen Maddux. “The planning and preparation that we have done over the past few months resulted in handling our COVID case response at VBHS and Osceola very quickly and efficiently,” Maddux said. No additional students had been identified as testing positive for COVID-19 ...

Man burned after putting on flaming football jersey

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — A 27-year-old man suffered second and third-degree burns after he put on a flaming football jersey after watching a football game with his family, Indian River County deputies said. Deputies responded to the scene shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday to a home in the 600 block of 9th Street, Indian River County. They spoke with residents there, who said the burned man had already been taken to the Indian River Medical Center by another family member. Deputies went to the hospital and spoke with the man and a woman who were both earlier watching the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers football game. Deputies saw that the man had third degree burns on his right arm ...

MY VERO: King Van Nostrand – Vero’s Hall of Fame tennis star

VERO BEACH — King Van Nostrand was, as usual, a gracious host, greeting me with a warm handshake and leading me to a comfortable chair in the sun-splashed Florida room at his golf-course home at Grand Harbor. Just weeks shy of his 80th birthday, his hearing has been failing in recent years, so he'd sometimes interrupt and ask me to repeat a question, which I did in a louder voice. But he was glad, even eager, to discuss anything I wanted to know about his long and decorated tennis life, jumping up to fetch photographs and other memorabilia from a Hall of Fame career in which he has won several world titles and, literally, more national championships than he can remember. ...