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Vero: Businesses avoiding city due to permit morass

The City of Vero Beach may soon decide to reverse a 42-year policy of letting Indian River County ...

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Long arm of law looks to lasso rustler on more charges

Vero Beach resident Scott Eric Smith, convicted and sentenced in Okeechobee County to 20 years in prison plus ...

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Hospital power outage response generates relief, satisfaction

A partial power outage of more than three hours at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital on a partly-cloudy ...

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Shores’ new ambulance goes up in smoke

A brand-new ambulance that Indian River Shores waited three years to get due to supply chain snags caught ...

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Hospital District debates its ability to tax and spend

The seven elected trustees of the Indian River County Hospital District seem conflicted about how closely they need ...

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Vero stuck with aging accounting systems till 2027

Critical upgrades to Vero Beach’s computerized accounting capabilities will not be made until 2027, city staff says, despite ...

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Council misses an opportunity to rebuild trust

News Analysis The Vero Beach City Council missed a major opportunity to rebuild trust with the tax-paying public ...

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Jewkes-Danielsen gets lengthy term in fatal A1A crash

Despite Elizabeth Jewkes-Danielsen’s lawyer saying the retired schoolteacher had lived “an exemplary life” up until May 10, 2022, ...

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Wanted at Vero Beach delivery unit: More babies!

This story was originally published on June 16, 2025 Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital’s highly ranked labor and ...

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Mayor’s ‘Communications Coordinator’ push another waste of time and money

News Analysis Desperate to shine-up the City of Vero Beach’s public image, and perhaps boost his own re-election ...

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Jury awards widow $29 million which she’ll likely never see

Attorneys representing John’s Island widow Frances Ingraham and her late husband’s estate gambled big on convincing a jury ...

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Council demands monthly reports on city finances

A Vero Beach City Council majority last week finally spoke up, demanding monthly reports on city finances to ...