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Art scene shifts to kids with summer camps

Last month’s Children’s Art Festival heralded the shift in focus of Vero’s arts scene from the grown-ups to ...

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Vero Beach Book Center’s site consolidation a success

It’s been a year since the Vero Beach Book Center consolidated its main store and its children’s store, ...

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Francis Mesaros: A study in maintaining enthusiasm

Artist Francis Mesaros is a man on a mission. Since 2010, when he emerged from a self-imposed seclusion ...

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C J Madigan: Better reading through design is her mission

If you got dressed this morning, turned on a TV, drove a car or navigated the aisles of ...

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Sculptor throws his weight behind arts center plan

If the old diesel power plant were ever to reopen as an arts center downtown, it wouldn’t take ...

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Dutch Feuchter: Taking life – and art – as it comes

Ralph “Dutch” Feuchter, 91, picks up his ukulele to play a ditty he wrote five or six months ...

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Miss Hibiscus stars in Theatre Guild – what’s next?

The deadline is looming for Kaitlin Ruby to make one of the most important decisions of her life. ...

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Schools launch ‘Kilroy Academy’ to help save lagoon

“I can’t tell you how excited I am about this program,” says Teresa Rockwood, Indian River County School ...

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Athena Society buys 2 new works for Art Museum

You could think of the annual Athena Society dinner at the Vero Beach Museum of Art as the ...

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‘Lost’ mystery novel by local writer gets published

Rose Armentano always loved reading summer novels, the sort of mysteries and romances that come out on lists ...

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Coffee, camaraderie and creativity with Kim Weissenborn

When Kim Weissenborn's art students arrive for class, their senses are immediately engaged. The fireplace glows, jazz is ...

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Mike Block sinks his teeth in to improve music

Cellist Mike Block is a master of improvisation. So when a student at a recent strings improv workshop ...