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Lisa Zahner

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Behavioral Health Center: Crucial asset for county’s most vulnerable

Across 37th Street from the main campus of Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital, almost 2,000 patients are admitted ...

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Utilities boss sees fiscal path for new plant

Water-Sewer Director Rob Bolton has figured out a way to move forward with Vero’s new state-of-the-art sewer plant ...

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Cleveland Clinic report cites progress, investments

Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital filed its annual financial report for its half-billion Vero Beach operation last week, ...

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Leave it to Vero to get cute with DOGE response

EDITOR'S NOTE:  Late in the afternoon of April 8, following questions from Vero Beach 32963, the City of Vero ...

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Negotiating fail will cost Vero an extra $500,000

Editor’s Note: After this week’s issue of Vero Beach 32963 went to press, the City of Vero Beach ...

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Vero appears out of luck in bid for time extension on audit

Editor's Note: On April 3, after this week's issue went to press, the Florida Joint Legislative Auditing Committee ...

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Vero scrambles as state DOGE joins the fray

Letters sent to all of Florida’s cities, towns and counties last week by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ newly formed ...

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Missed red flag: Accounting firm’s bill for audit help was way over budget

What, exactly, were the 26 City of Vero Beach Finance Department employees doing while state deadlines to file ...

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For Hospital District, unanswered questions on sober home abound

The local Hospital District finally had its first substantive, probing discussion about its planned women’s sober home last ...

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Audit fallout: Apathy reigns on Vero Council

A month after the stunning news broke that Vero Beach had failed to complete and file its 2022-23 ...

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City’s financial disarray extends far beyond audit

Vero Beach police paychecks bouncing and new city retirees going months without pension checks now seem to be ...

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City manager: Blameless in audit debacle?

Three weeks before City Manager Monte Falls told Vero Beach 32963 he was “flabbergasted” by news Vero was ...