Vero Minute

Oct 19, 2026

Vero Beach is No. 1!

Remember back in July, when Vero landed at #2 on Travel + Leisure’s list of beach towns to buy a home in before prices climb? Well this time, also according to Travel + Leisure, we took the top spot on Skyscanner’s list of the top trending travel destinations for Americans in 2027! Searches for round-trip flights to Vero tripled over the past year, more than any other place on the list. That put us ahead of everywhere from Bimini to Da Nang, Stockholm to Glasgow, with Olbia in Sardinia as...

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Jul 11, 2026

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Oct 10, 2026

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Return of the Wild at McKee: Oct - Dec

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Brian Kilmeade Returns to Miracle Mile

Over the years the Vero Beach Book Center has hosted a president, an astronaut and Emeril Lagasse, who once kept signing books past 1 a.m. This Sunday it welcomes Brian Kilmeade back, and anyone who starts their day with Fox & Friends can meet him in person, right on 21st Street. Kilmeade last visited the Book Center in 2019 with his book on the Alamo. He returns this Sunday, Oct. 25 at 11 a.m. with Uniting the States, published just last week. Vero is his only stop on the Tr

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You Asked. CMS Delivered!

In our recent reader survey, classical music came up as one of the top things Vero Minute readers want more of. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has just the thing. CMS recently launched The Art of Listening, an essay series bringing some of the world's best writers on music, including Paul Griffiths, longtime chief classical critic of The New York Times, and Jan Swafford, Beethoven's biographer, to tell the stories behind the pieces we hear in concert. A few to st

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VBMA Gets Packing for Its Big Move

The Vero Beach Museum of Art is getting ready to move into its new space on A1A, and if you have a soft spot for the building you know and love in Riverside Park, this winter is your last chance to see it as it is. In mid-February, the museum hands everything but its Collections Wing over to construction, and the galleries you've wandered for years won't look the same again. Meet The Hub, the 6,000-square-foot building located at 1716 Highway A1A, the former location of Hazel

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McKee Goes Wild

The wild have officially come out to play at McKee. A baby hippo, a giraffe, a cheetah, an elephant, a zebra, a bear, an arctic fox and a giant tortoise staked their positions along the Garden's paths this past Saturday, and you should go have a look. This weekend its only $5, but if you can't make it, relax, because they plan on sticking around through December 2027. If you read our previous article, you know Gillie & Marc Schattner, the internationally acclaimed British-Aus

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Calling All Kids: Riverside Theatre's Fall Classes and Auditions Now Open

If you want your kids to trade screen time for stage presence this season, Riverside Theatre is rolling out the ultimate roadmap. From toddlers taking their first creative steps right on up to pre-teens building original characters, the theatre's education programs give young performers the tools to grow and have fun doing it. Led by Jenni Norton, the upcoming six-week classes kick off this Wednesday, October 14, offering age-specific sessions designed to build confidence, sp

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Just in Time for Halloween, an Evening Stroll With Our Famous Ghosts

Beginning this Saturday, the region's dead rise, dress for the occasion, and start talking. They've had a hundred years to get their stories straight. And what a guest list! Main Street Fort Pierce has rounded up the region's most storied dead, cast them with volunteers in period dress, and posted them around the old downtown to tell all in the first person. Zora Neale Hurston, the Harlem Renaissance star who spent her last years there. Edwin Binney, the Crayola tycoon. A tri

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Starstruck at the Hallstrom Planetarium

That insatiable urge to look up to the stars is the oldest one we humans have, and you can indulge it right down the street at Indian River State College's Hallstrom Planetarium, where the cosmos come to life across a 40-foot dome, along with thousands of stars we never see due to light pollution. Just $7 buys an experience serene enough for an hour alone with your thoughts, yet awe-inspiring enough for a family outing or an incredible date night. The stars told the first far

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Meet the Finalists for the Dan K. Richardson Award

Alma Lee Loy won it, the red-haired Vero girl who sold war bonds as a child and grew up to greet the whole town with a “hello darlin’.” Bud Adams won it, with a St. Lucie County ranch his father bought for $1.50 an acre and a breed of cattle he invented himself. Bob and Marygrace Sexton won it for Natalie’s juice, a century after the Sextons started building Vero. Bob’s grandfather Waldo Sexton arrived before Vero was even a town, planted citrus, put up the Driftwood Inn and

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Veterans Council Reenlists as Mission United

Forty-plus years is a long tour of duty, and the Veterans Council of Indian River County just signed up for another one. The Council has joined forces with United Way of Indian River County and has a new name to go with it: Mission United. It took more than a year to put together, and the programs, staff and services are all coming along for this next chapter. If you've never seen the Veterans Council at work, picture an army of passionate volunteers who get up in the morning

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