By Saundra Amrhein The sun has only been up an hour or so, but already several guests are awake and down at the beach watching Rachel Smith, a wildlife biologist, search for the eggs of a loggerhead sea turtle with her hands as not to poke the eggs. At the oceanfront Disney’s Vero Beach Resort in…
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By Kara Franker The international singer and her husband opened Costa d'Este hotel in Vero Beach in 2008 and transformed it into a world-class hotel. The sleepy seaside village of Vero Beach has a secret. This Florida beach town, known for its year-round cultural arts scene, is home to another…
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By Jeanette Scott I recently named Vero Beach Main Street as one of my favorite places to go shopping on the Treasure Coast, and it's not hard to see why. There are more than 20 unique, locally-owned boutiques thriving here, all located near the ocean in Vero Beach. There are certainly enough…
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By Steve Winston The last train pulled out of the Vero Beach train station in 1968. It's now the Vero Beach train museum. But once, this little wooden building was the lifeblood of this town. These tracks were built in the late 1800’s. But there was no station here — you had to “whistle stop” the…
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By Kris Hundley Vero Beach is a speck at the mid-point of Florida’s Atlantic Coast, the place where east-west State Road 60 runs into the water. But for cruisers, the city is known for its municipal marina, which ranks among Florida’s best. Here’s why: 1. A protected harbor right off the…
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By Steve Winston Behind a fence, along a busy stretch of Vero Beach road, lies a small slice of primeval, tropical Florida, a place where silence and stunning natural beauty still reign. This spot has been here since 1932. That’s when a Cleveland industrialist named Arthur McKee and his…
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By Steve Winston Life in early-20 th Century Vero Beach wasn’t easy. It was often a hardscrabble rural existence, in which hardworking families either made a living with small farms or citrus, or didn’t. The Hallstrom family, though, was different. They were Indian River County royalty. And…
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By Steve Winston The Laura Riding house stands by itself, in a little clearing. It’s a white, wooden, turn-of-the-century “Florida Cracker House,” with green shutters and a tin roof. It’s empty now. But, for half a century, it was home to the woman some call the “Greatest Poet of the 20 th…
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