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GT Rhodes closing its doors after 41 years

By month’s end, one of the most familiar and popular clothing shops on the island, GT Rhodes Menswear, ...

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Grand Harbor real estate gains value with completion of golf course renovations

A year-end reopening is anticipated for Grand Harbor Golf and Beach Club’s 18-hole, Joe Lee-designed River Course, the ...

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Orchid has no need for Town Council election

With just three candidates qualifying for three open seats on the Orchid Town Council, the northernmost of the ...

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Seaside Grill at Jaycee Park to reopen in a few weeks

A refreshed Seaside Grill is expected to finally open in a few weeks, under new management, after a ...

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Work finally slated to start next summer on Oslo Road Interstate 95 interchange

With a record $400 million in state and federal funding for the county’s five-year Transportation Improvement Program projects, ...

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Surging rents price some low-income seniors out of homes

Vero Beach’s fixed-income elderly are, in growing numbers, being priced out of their homes in the white-hot rental ...

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Leatherback sea turtles are enjoying a banner nesting season on our beaches

Leatherback turtles broke an 11-year record this season for local nesting, laying 96 nests, beating the 2010 tally ...

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Wabasso Causeway landscaping nearly finished

The Florida Department of Transportation says the planting of new landscaping along the Wabasso Causeway should conclude this ...

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3 notable developments underway along State Road 60

Three major construction projects – one commercial, two residential – are the most recent along the rapidly developing ...

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New pastor at Christ by the Sea United Methodist Church

Transition and growth have been vital to Christ by the Sea United Methodist Church since its founding in ...

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Dog owners unleash criticism of new beach restrictions

The new dog ordinance in the Town of Orchid is only seven pages long, but two years of ...

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Vero memorializes Alma Lee Loy two years after death

In a celebration delayed two years by the pandemic, friends, family and colleagues gathered Saturday morning at First ...