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

The invitation directed us to bring, among other things, a good hat and a sense of adventure.

The Environmental Learning Center on Wabasso Island will have a series of Ecology Camps.

It’s the feel-good, good-time attitude that makes the Caribbean the perfect inspiration for summer entertaining. The music, the drinks, the food, the clothes are...

I was eight years old. I stood outside the kitchen door in the warm, early-morning sunlight, a cigar box full of marbles in one hand and my book bag in the other, ready to head down the dirt road to catch the bus to Vero Beach Elementary School. I

… Viewed from the perspective of 1998, it sounds crazy, but 50 years ago Vero was a remote little town of 3,000 people, and developers were not exactly beating at the door.

There are a legion of reasons to visit Venice.

The façade seems fairly predictable: the down-to-earth, proficient, no-nonsense, pillar-of-the-community plastic surgeon.

Come to practice at Windsor’s Equestrian Center on a Friday afternoon and, if you didn’t know better, you’d almost think polo was a matriarchy.

A half mile west of U.S.1, between 69th and 71st streets, lies the county’s oldest graveyard, the Winter Beach Cemetery. Established in 1908 as a “free” cemetery, it is the final resting place of many pioneers.

Probably no organization better demonstrates the character of Vero Beach than the Vero Beach Theatre Guild.

The sun was breaking through the clouds when Frank Ayers began his walk along the drainage canal that marked Vero’s northern border.

It was St. Edward’s School that clinched Barbara and Tom Matesic’s decision to make Vero Beach their new home.

A series of car accidents convinced Pamela Tan it was time to move to Florida.

It was water that brought Cheryl and Ken Hebert to Florida — the kind you drink. Ken, a wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers back in the ’60s, now works in the water-utilities industry and had taken a job with a subsidiary of Culligan Water as vice president for sales in the Fort Pierce regional office.

Nancy and Dick Mercer bought their first home in Vero Beach because they were tired of the rain.

Now what would you expect of someone with a novelistic name like that?

Irving Berlin was wrong. Christmas doesn’t need snow or pine trees or, to borrow from another classic lyric, chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

It is a hot sultry night in the sanctuary of the Community Church and the Vero Beach Choral Society’s spring pops concert, the last performance of the season, has just ended.

After lying in ruins for more than 20 years, The Hall of Giants at McKee Botanical Garden, Waldo Sexton’s monument to a giant table (a 38-foot slab of Philippine mahogany) is about to rise again, thanks to a grant from Florida’s Division of Historic Resources.