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

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 i

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

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

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

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

This Thursday, Oct. 8 at 4PM, Meet Me on Main takes you inside the $14 million downtown campus Shannon McGuire Bowman spent years willing into existence, just about five weeks before the first child walks in. The mayor will be there. You should be too! Main Street Vero Beach's monthly social features Mayor John Cotugno, and the host is Childcare Resources, whose new home opens Nov. 12. Shannon McGuire Bowman Bowman took over Childcare Resources in 2012, when it reached about

Five tropical storms. Zero hurricanes. As of mid-September, the traditional peak of hurricane season, that's where the Atlantic stood this year, the slowest start since satellites began watching the tropics in 1966. The ocean hasn't cooled and the tropics haven't gone dormant. A strong El Niño has stacked up wind shear across the Atlantic, and that shear keeps tearing storms apart before they can organize. It's a pattern with precedent. El Niño years have produced some of the

Somebody left a baked potato at South Beach Park. Wrapped in foil, just sitting there, until the Dyer Subaru crew found it on September 19. It won them a trophy. It's no brick of drugs, which is what turned up last year, but we'll take a slower year on the contraband front. The potato was also the least worrying thing pulled off of our coastline that morning. Coastal Connections, Inc. just released the final numbers from this year's International Coastal Cleanup, and almost a

The Humane Society shelter on 77th is back at it for Empty the Shelters. Third round this year with the Bissell Pet Foundation, which either means the formula works or the shelter just doesn't stay empty for long. CEO Nichola Redmond's take, from the shelter's own press release: "Unfortunately, our shelter never is actually empty, as we receive animals almost daily." Pricing remains unchanged from July. Puppies 6 months to a year, $70. Dogs 1 to 8 years, $50. Kittens under 6