Jon Pine

All lanes of the 17th Street Bridge will close from midnight on Dec. 2 through 5 a.m. Dec. 6 as workers continue extensive repairs to the east end of the bridge in a $22.3 million rehabilitation project coordinated by the Florida Department of Transportation.

The worst of the tornado-damaged tree limbs in Central Beach and elsewhere have been cleaned up and mulched. But what should homeowners do now?

Though snowbirds trickle down to Vero's barrier island throughout October and November as temperatures fall up north, Thanksgiving week marks the unofficial start of high tourism season and all signs point toward another banner year.

For Central Beach shops, the sweetest Yuletide sound may be the ringing of cash registers, and Vero's merchants are hoping this holiday season – including this Saturday's annual Christmas Parade along Ocean Drive – will draw lots of shoppers to their doors.

Allen Cornell, who has been at the helm of Riverside Theatre for more than 40 years, will step down as CEO and producing artistic director after the 52nd season concludes, and become Artistic Director Emeritus, as Jon Moses, the theatre's managing director since 2009, will step into the role of CEO and executive producer.

A developer hopes to begin construction soon on an 811-unit residential development just east of Sandridge Golf Club, but first it has to gently evict an estimated 283 gopher tortoises and relocate them to a quieter, safer neighborhood.

Snowbirds and returning winter tourists visiting the island's public beaches and parks should notice some improvements since last season.

Snowbirds and returning winter tourists visiting Indian River County's public beaches and parks should notice some improvements since last season, thanks to more than $13.4 million dollars

Five years on from a deadly crash which claimed the life of a College of the Holy Cross women's rowing team star, state road crews have finally begun constructing improvements to increase safety and ease traffic congestion at the western foot of the Merrill Barber Bridge.

A Vero Beach osteopath who prescribed ivermectin to his patients as a treatment for COVID-19 is suing a local pharmacist for slander, claiming the pharmacist discouraged his patients from taking ivermectin and suggested they seek a prescription for Paxlovid instead.