Features

With views of the Indian River Lagoon visible from every room in the three-story house, the scene is ever-changing.

A novel seemingly about a beautiful young wife who disappears from her perfect home on the banks of the Mississippi River has rocketed to the top of The New York Times best-seller list.

Empowering Digital Natives through the Education Foundation is in the pilot phase of the program throughout the school district.

Even before Mardy Fish’s meteoric rise in the tennis world, he wanted to help disadvantaged kids in his home town realize their dreams.

As usual, educators Bobbie and Bill Donelson of Sebastian were awakened at dawn by two cold, wet noses.

It’s that time of year when the winter squash crop, planted in the summer through Labor Day, is at its peak. Hubbard, acorn, butternut, pumpkin, buttercup, banana and spaghetti – among the most common – are plentiful on supermarket shelves and at farmers markets.

When Robert Gates strides onto Riverside Theatre’s Stark stage the first Monday in February he will be greeted by more than a smattering of polite applause.

ORCA’s Saving the Water Babies program is up and running with Indian River Charter High School students in the field collecting samples and data, as well as in the lab conducting analysis.

Florida offers a wealth of exciting wildlife. Here in Indian River County, we have alligators and manatees, sea turtles and river otters.

Out of the 760-plus species of spiders that call the Sunshine State home, four get enough negative attention to give newcomers the heebie-jeebies.

Like so many small cities across the country, Vero Beach has always had an obsession with local football, including a rivalry with neighboring towns that dates back to the 1920s and peaked during the ’50s.

Madison, Wis., the home of cheese, badgers and the Green Bay Packers, is also home to a bookstore called A Room of One’s Own

Today, Vero Beach is known for many things: Dodgertown, Piper Aircraft, an emphasis on cultural activities such as the Riverside Theatre and the Center for the Arts. But if you've never heard of Millie Bunnell and the Dolphinettes, you don't know how and when the city first got to be famous.

Richard Black had merely gone through the routine motions of his life for the past week since the body had washed ashore and slammed into the pilings beneath the Ocean Grill.

Back in the ’60s, the songs of the Beach Boys said it all.

Seen from its Island Creek Drive turnoff, Francis Carter Wood’s home looks very much like those of his John’s Island neighbors, sedately bordering the canal where his boat, Billfisher, is docked, waiting for another fishing trip to the Sebastian Inlet or far offshore for the big ones.

For an intimate dinner for eight or an evening buffet for 1,000, many Vero Beach hostesses say Elizabeth D. Kennedy & Company provides the fine catered cuisine they demand.

That promise has been translated by several artistic Vero Beach residents, who have, with their personal style of imagination and flair, created magical courtyard settings abundant with native plants, treasured sculptures and flowing fountains.

It’s said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It takes more than a soothsayer to predict the prosperity of the state’s 1998 residential real estate market