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Public schools here experience worst week since start of pandemic with 50 new cases

A student and a staff member at Beachland Elementary School tested positive for COVID-19 and 10 students quarantined ...

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Deputy, fired here for pepper-spraying inmate, once handcuffed Mike Wallace after traffic stop

The corrections deputy arrested and fired by the Sheriff’s Office last week for pepper-spraying an inmate three times ...

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New COVID-19 cases here lowest since New Year’s

New COVID-19 cases in the county were down significantly last week from the previous two weeks and the ...

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Assisted living residents finally getting vaccine

Six weeks after long-term care facilities were given top priority for the COVID-19 vaccine, and more than a ...

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Indian River Shores says it likely will leave Vero water-sewer utility in 2027

Indian River Shores Councilman John McCord told Vero Beach officials last week that the town will likely leave ...

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Not going to see this racing through Vero before 2023

Indian River County residents won’t face any danger or inconvenience posed by Brightline’s high-speed passenger trains until at ...

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No post-holiday COVID-19 spike, so far, at public schools

Holiday travel and gatherings during the two-week winter recess so far have not caused a rise in the ...

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Keeping seniors out of hospital best way to fight COVID-19

The most important reason to get the COVID-19 vaccine into the arms of barrier island seniors as swiftly ...

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Royal Palm Pointe businesses ‘on an upswing’ after 2020 lull

Royal Palm Pointe businesses say things are finally picking up after a lull that began along with the ...

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Antibody treatment available here for high-risk patients

A COVID-19 treatment that may help high-risk patients avoid having to go to the hospital has arrived in ...

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COVID-19 cases shatter pandemic records for county

The past week saw more pandemic records shattered here with 874 new coronavirus cases – including 71 new ...

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Vaccine or placebo? Pfizer trial participant waits to find out

Janet Hornreich Winikoff, like thousands of other residents of our county, is waiting to find out her status ...