Vero Minute

Jul 13, 2026

Chris Clavelli Needs Just 30 Minutes of Your Time

Chris Clavelli calls himself a hired gun: 40 years bouncing between acting, directing and teaching, and only in the last decade, playwriting. Now, Riverside Theatre has handed him his biggest undertaking yet: a play built from the real stories of Indian River County's veterans and military families. Working title: "Voices of Service." His credentials: resident director at Florida Repertory Theatre with more than 40 productions, a Wall Street Journal "Best of 2017" nod from critic Terry...

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The Week Ahead

Downtown Fridays by Main Street Vero Beach

Main Street Vero Beach

Jun 26, 2026

6:00 PM

1:00 AM

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11th Annual Burgers & Brews Festival

Indian River County Fairgrounds & Expo C

Jun 27, 2026

11:00 AM

8:00 PM

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Stars and Service Weekend at Riverside Theatre -- July 2-3

Riverside Theatre

Jul 2, 2026

5:30 PM

12:30 AM

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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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Join the Celebration this Saturday -- Walking Tree Turns 10

Ten years ago, this was a warehouse the city wanted to tear down. This Saturday, July 18, Walking Tree Brewery is throwing its biggest party yet. Mike and Brooke Malone took over 3209 Dodger Road in 2014, a 1945 Naval aviation supply warehouse wedged between Historic Dodgertown and the Piper plant, and spent two years gutting it themselves, volunteers and all, sparing it the fate of demolition. The first pint went out on June 23, 2016. The 10th Anniversary Block Party starts

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The Dig Is On. Don't Miss It

Somewhere on our beach right now, a loggerhead nest is about to hatch. 72 hours later, Coastal Connections researchers will be on their knees in the sand, excavating it egg by egg, and you get to take part in this ritual. Turtle Digs have kicked off for the season. It's a morning scene unlike anything else in Vero: the team opens the nest by hand, pulls each egg, and sorts them one by one as hatched, unhatched, or damaged, calling out numbers while a team member logs the data

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An Artist’s Life in a World That Won’t Line Up: James Prosek at VBMA

James Prosek was ten when he hit a wall that would go on to define his life. He wanted to paint every trout in North America, went to the library for a field guide, and found nothing. So he wrote letters to biologists. He got warm replies, but zero consensus, because new discoveries about trout change too quickly to fit rigid classifications. That's been the central theme of his entire career: the human urge to draw neat, straight lines on a messy natural world that refuses t

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And the Winners Are...

1st: Leslie Greenwood, "Summer Breeze" 1st: Tim Hinkle Jr., "Old Garden Delight" 1st: Tim Hinkle Jr., "Swirl of Wonder" While we (and all of Vero) were caught up in Princess Pungent frenzy, McKee Botanical Garden announced the winners of its 21st Annual Waterlily Celebration photography contest. More than 40 entries came in this year, judged across Color, Black & White, and Manipulated categories, with a Youth division and a crowd-voted People's Choice thrown in for good meas

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The Annabel Robertson Effect

IRSC Vice President of Institutional Advancement Annabel Robertson, Kate Beckwith Woody and IRSC President Timothy E. Moore Annabel Robertson removes obstacles for a living. Ask anyone who has worked alongside her over the past three decades at some of the Treasure Coast's most important institutions, and they'll tell you the same thing: she identifies the barriers standing between people and opportunity, then works tirelessly to remove them. Today, as Vice President for Inst

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This Month Only, Buy One Get One Free

The Humane Society shelter on 77th is nearly full. This is where the Bissell Pet Foundation's Empty the Shelters campaign comes in. Kittens under 6 months were originally $70, with a second kitten at $35. That second fee has since been waived, so, no, it's not clickbait, it is indeed buy one get one free on kittens. Little Bit Cream Puddles The rest of the pricing: puppies 6 months to a year, $70; dogs 1 to 8 years, $50; cats 7 months to 8 years, $35. Lana T Money Petey The p

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America 250 and Fourth of July Roundup

Then and now | Photo credit: Chris Cronin (left) America turned 250, and Vero Beach marked the occasion the way it marks every Fourth: out in the water before the rest of the nation was even awake. Thousands waded off Sexton Plaza at sunrise in red, white and blue, a quarter mile out to the SS Breconshire, part of a tradition that started twenty years ago with a handful of Sunrunners and has since become the county's largest unofficial holiday. Read last year's story on the s

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