Lisa Zahner

1 week ago | veronews.com | Lisa Zahner

Despite Elizabeth Jewkes-Danielsen’s lawyer saying the retired schoolteacher had lived “an exemplary life” up until May 10, 2022, when she made several bad decisions, Judge Robert Meadows last week sentenced her to 13.75 years in state prison for her involvement in a deadly car crash on A1A in Indian River Shores.

1 week ago | veronews.com | Lisa Zahner

News AnalysisThe Vero Beach City Council missed a major opportunity to rebuild trust with the tax-paying public last week when it failed to act on a proposal by Councilman John Carroll that it publicly vet the city’s 10-month late audit at a council meeting. Finance staff and auditors completed the fiscal year 2022-23 audited financial statements in early May to halt state enforcement actions against Vero.

2 weeks ago | veronews.com | Lisa Zahner

Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital’s highly ranked labor and delivery unit, designed and staffed to handle 1,200 to 1,300 births per year, is currently losing more than $3 million annually due to a lack of babies. More than 1,200 babies per year were born to Indian River County residents in 2023 and 2024, but due to a complex set of demographic, insurance and market factors, nearly 400 moms per year delivered outside our county, draining most of the well-insured moms and babies out of Vero.

3 weeks ago | veronews.com | Lisa Zahner

News AnalysisDesperate to shine-up the City of Vero Beach’s public image, and perhaps boost his own re-election bid in the process, Mayor John Cotugno wants city taxpayers to spend up to a quarter million dollars on public relations and paid advertising painting the city government in a sunnier light – as stupid and wasteful an idea now as it was when tried nearly two decades ago.

3 weeks ago | veronews.com | Lisa Zahner

Attorneys representing John’s Island widow Frances Ingraham and her late husband’s estate gambled big on convincing a jury to award them millions in damages from deep-pocketed Orchid resident Paul Danielsen for involvement in causing a deadly May 2022 car crash. Their case, which in the courtroom appeared to be based heavily on Danielsen’s sketchy behavior after the crash, failed epically.