Vero Minute

Jul 27, 2026

Vero Beach is No. 2!

Vero just landed at #2 on Travel + Leisure's list of the best beach towns in America to buy a home in before prices climb! Right between Santa Cruz, CA at #1 and Myrtle Beach, SC at #3. Two towns with a lot more name recognition and a lot more people, and Vero's holding the line right between them. Michael Merrill of The Exclusive Group at Douglas Elliman told T+L that buyers priced out of Palm Beach are catching on: private beach clubs, championship golf, oceanfront living, all here, all...

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Jul 30, 2026

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Aug 7, 2026

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Topics like this usually live over at our sister publication, Let's Talk Vero, but this one felt too important not to share here, especially if you care about growth, development, and quality of life in Vero Beach and Indian River County. Here's a number that should stop you in your tracks: Here's a number that should stop you in your tracks. Indian River County is home to more than 170,000 people. Of those, 118,221 were registered to vote in the 2024 primary. Only 40,498 act

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Saved, Not Paved: Nature Wins the Day!

Rose West and Ken Grudens Look what just got saved! A 1.6-acre stretch along the St. Sebastian River's South Prong, the last privately zoned link standing between a future trailhead off County Route 512 and conservation land the City of Sebastian already protects, is preserved for good instead of paved over. We got lucky here. That's thanks to the Indian River Land Trust, which just made one of its most strategic buys ever to make it happen. The parcel was zoned for houses ri

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Athletic, Energetic, Sexy: August 6, 7 & 8

It's that time of year again. Every summer, Riverside Theatre and Ballet Vero Beach bring a world-class dance company to Vero Beach, move a group of serious young dancers into rehearsal alongside them, and put all of it on the Riverside Stage together. Year after year, they deliver. This year is something else entirely. Jennifer Kronenberg Meet Jennifer Kronenberg. She trained on scholarship at the School of American Ballet, joined Miami City Ballet as an apprentice at 17, an

Arts and Culture

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The Hunts Bet The House

Terri Graham, Ginny Hunt and Jane McNulty Snead | Photo credit: Chris Cronin Media Austin and Ginny Hunt bet the house, literally, on a food pantry back in 2002 that would grow into United Against Poverty. Eleven years into Burgers & Brews, that bet has grown into the biggest stage the event has ever had. East Harbor Band kept the crowd moving between booths, and 11 local kitchens vied for the top prize. The verdict: Judge's Choice 1st Place: Touhy's Downtown 2nd Place: Green

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Master's Academy Doubles Down on STEM

Master's Academy has been leveling up its STEM game lately, and two recent experiences show just how much more hands-on, and less classroom-bound, that education has become. Ken Williams spent 52 years as an analytical chemist in the polymer, textile, and paper industries. Retirement, for him, apparently meant re-stocking a school science department. He donated close to $100,000 in professional-grade lab equipment, including several research-quality Olympus microscopes valued

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What is "Color Desire" Anyway? Chromatic Expressions Comes to VBMA

Jill Nathanson paints without figures or scenery. There's no subject to speak of, just color, carrying the entire picture on its own. Starting this Saturday, July 25, 20 of her paintings fill VBMA's Schumann and Titelman galleries in a show entirely the museum's own, built in-house, every piece on loan from the artist and her gallery, Berry Campbell. Nathanson works in the Color Field tradition, a school of painting built on the idea that color alone, without shape or subject

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Back on Track: The Building That Put Vero on the Map Reopens

Photo credit: John Biondo After being closed for six years, the old train station you've probably driven past and wondered about has officially reopened. The Indian River County Historical Society reopened these doors to the Vero Beach Railroad Station & Exhibit Center on July 9. Flagler's railroad blew right past this stretch of coast in 1893, stopping in Sebastian and Fort Pierce and skipping the groves in between. It took about a decade of citrus piling up before Flagler's

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At a Glance: This Week and Next

For more details on all upcoming events and to register for these, see "The Week Ahead" section here. July 14, 5 p.m. -- Let's Talk Vero Beach Airport at Riverside Theatre July 15, 5:30 p.m. -- Olaf's Summer Bash at Riverside Theatre July 18, 10 a.m. -- A Century of Wonder at McKee -- Community Days July 18, 1 p.m. -- 6th Annual Rock and Rose Beach Party at Kimpton Vero Beach Hotel & Spa July 19, 10 a.m. -- A Century of Wonder at McKee -- Community Days July 22, 5:30 p.m. --

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1,002 Screenings. 18,000 Meals. Put it on United Way's Tab

L to R: Becky Straley (Veterans Council of Indian River County), Megan McFall (Indian River County Healthy Start), Anne Posey (Tykes and Teens), Elizabeth Thomason (Boys and Girls Clubs of Indian River), Shannon Bowman (Childcare Resources), Ellen Wayne (Catholic Charities), April Colvin (Veterans Council of Indian River), Rachel Moshman (Tykes and Teens) Some of the best news in Indian River County this year arrives in the form of a spreadsheet. United Way of Indian River Co

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