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Beach safety gears up with $3.5K grant

Satellite Beach Fire Department’s water rescue unit has received a $3,500 grant through Surfing’s Evolution and Preservation Foundation, ...

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Activist’s aide, officials meet on water issues

Consumer advocate and environmental activist Erin Brockovich and her water expert, Robert Bowcock, having studied a wide array ...

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A1A sidewalk ‘gap’ fix may now be years away

Indian Harbour Beach officials recently got the news that the fix for a gap in the sidewalk on ...

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Historic canoe washed up by Irma will have Space Coast home

Hurricane Irma’s most famous local historical artifact – a now well-studied 13-foot Southern Red Cedar dugout canoe that ...

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Tale of 2 cities: Budget realities wildly different

It’s a matter of the “haves and have-nots” when comparing the proposed fiscal 2018/2019 budgets of neighboring cities ...

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Teacher-turned-councilor has studied hard for her new role

For Jodi Rozycki, it’s the teacher going back to school, this time to learn as much as she ...

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City officials return fire after famed activist’s online attack

A social media storm involving an Aug. 29 Facebook post by famous activist Erin Brockovich that was highly ...

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Assessing county’s post-Irma efforts

One year ago, Hurricane Irma formed and quickly intensified to a Category 5 storm, with Florida squarely in ...

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Innovative stormwater pond taking shape at DeSoto

Satellite Beach’s DeSoto Parkway is quickly becoming a shining example of a unique stormwater facility by cleaning water ...

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Wave Gliders represent sea change for scientific research

Slow-moving but highly useful at sea and strong enough to ride out a hurricane, Wave Gliders are multiplying ...

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Fire agencies take full advantage of ‘hands-on’ training opportunity

The former Doubles Beachside Restaurant in Indian Harbour Beach, set to be torn down, became a busy live-fire ...

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Groundwater tests don’t ease contamination fears

Worried residents arrived early for a meeting Sunday afternoon, more than 200 filling the Satellite Beach Civic Center ...