Author Archives

Lisa Zahner

32963 Features 32963 News

Big Blue’s subsidy of Vero city budget is nearing an end

News Analysis For the first time in four decades, property owners within the Vero Beach city limits will ...

32963 Features 32963 News All News Featured News Secondary News

COVID hospitalizations up, cases flat

The number of patients with COVID-19 in Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital has risen again sharply, but deaths ...

32963 Features 32963 News

Guess how much Vero utility bills will be going up

Vero Beach Utilities water-sewer customers will see their monthly utility bill go up when the city’s new one-rate ...

32963 Features 32963 News All News Featured News Secondary News

COVID-19 cases up; hospitalizations down

While new weekly COVID-19 infections here were up by 11 percent this past week to 499 cases, local ...

32963 Features 32963 News All News Featured News Secondary News

Charges expected in crash that claimed life of John’s Island man

A rear-end collision on A1A near the entrance to Bermuda Bay that claimed the life of an elderly ...

32963 Features 32963 News All News Featured News Secondary News

Hospitalizations of patients with COVID up sharply

The number of people hospitalized here with COVID-19 has increased 59 percent since July 1, and 16 more ...

32963 Features 32963 News All News Featured News Secondary News

Clock ticking on Shores battle with Vero Beach over water

With the deadline only 15 months off for Indian River Shores to serve notice it intends to sever ...

32963 Features 32963 News All News Featured News Secondary News

COVID infections here hold steady through June

The number of new COVID-19 infections locally held relatively steady during the month of June – neither surging ...

32963 Features 32963 News All News Featured News Secondary News

New insurance law will take years to curb soaring costs

Florida’s new property insurance reform law – touted as curbing skyrocketing premiums by reining in abuses of the ...

32963 Features 32963 News All News Featured News Secondary News

Will the Asbury Lee Perkins murder case finally go to trial, or drag on into 2023?

Whether a seven-year-old Island murder case will drag on into an eighth year before going to trial depends ...

32963 Features 32963 News All News Featured News Secondary News

Five more people die here in June with COVID-19

At least five more local people have died with COVID-19 as June comes to a close, putting the ...

32963 Features 32963 News All News Featured News Secondary News

New COVID-19 cases here still in high category

New COVID-19 cases locally reported to the Florida Department of Health increased at a slower pace this past ...