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COVID infections, hospitalizations fall

After a one-week spike, the number of new local COVID-19 infections are back down to pre-spring break levels, ...

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New County Administrator eager to ‘prove my mettle’

New County Administrator John Titkanich, who agreed to a three-year contract that will pay him an annual salary ...

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Longtime county official, passed over for top administrator post, will retire

County Community Development Director Phil Matson said he would have served for at least another five years if ...

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Agricultural land prices soar as hedge funds compete with farmers and island buyers

During the pandemic real estate boom, big sales on the beachside got most of the limelight, but the ...

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Weak legislation dashes hopes for utility customers

News Analysis A piece of legislation intended to curb the financial excesses of municipal electric, water and sewer ...

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Jim Welles, founder of dog park, was pooches’ best friend

I received spe-shull permission to write this because it’s about a local human who’s been buh-loved by hundreds ...

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New COVID infections jump sharply here

New COVID-19 infections more than doubled this past week from the prior week, and local hospitalizations were also ...

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Bills advance to protect municipal utility customers

News Analysis The Florida Legislature is moving two bills through committee that would clamp down on how municipal-owned ...

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Five years after attack, trial again delayed

Five and a half years after a typical day for the dining room staff at the Isles of ...

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Chamber’s 2019 ‘Volunteer of the Year’ headed for prison

A former marketing specialist and Vero Beach socialite who was the Indian River County Chamber of Commerce’s “2019 ...

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Brian Barefoot files to seek re-election to School Board

Refusing to be bullied by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Moms For Liberty, School Board member Brian Barefoot ...

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Central Beach: New homes rising under old oaks

If it seems to you that new houses are being built everywhere in Central Beach, you aren’t wrong. ...