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Dec 9, 2024 | 
verobeachmagazine.com | Renae Tesauro
If you think Christmas in Florida doesn’t quite feel like Christmas, head over to Tara Plantation for a free drive-through light display that would make Clark Griswold green with envy. On the Sunday following Thanksgiving, Christmas at Tara comes to life with nearly 500,000 LED lights and 100 figures on the 5-acre Grall Law Group property, located at 7555 20th St., west of Vero Beach.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
verobeachmagazine.com | Renae Tesauro
Stepping inside the penthouse condominium owned by Beryl Raff and Paul Russell is tantamount to entering the finest stateroom on a luxury cruise ship—a cruise ship with a permanent port of call at Royal Palm Pointe.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
verobeachmagazine.com | Renae Tesauro
Middle school is typically fraught with major-league drama. But for 96 middle school–age girls participating in Major League Baseball’s annual Trailblazer Series at the Jackie Robinson Training Complex, the drama is both major league and inspiring. Every spring, girls from across the United States and Canada come to Vero Beach to compete and hone their skills in the two-day girls’ baseball development experience.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
verobeachmagazine.com | Renae Tesauro
It may seem counterintuitive, but the path to losing weight involves lifting weight. “If you want to lose weight, get off the treadmill and start lifting weights,” advises personal trainer Lori Long, who owns Grow Strong Fitness on Old Dixie Highway. “People tend to focus too much on cardio and the scale. The scale only tells you how much you weigh, not what you’re made of. When people skip meals and starve themselves, their body eats its own muscle to survive.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
verobeachmagazine.com | Renae Tesauro
The parcel of land on South A1A sat vacant for almost five years, awaiting its destiny. But destiny works in mysterious ways, and what emerged from the ground up was unlike anything Kris Trustey had envisioned when she and her husband, Joe, purchased the lot along with the adjacent oceanfront estate in April 2015. “We originally thought of installing walking trails around it, as a place of meditative respite after losing our son the prior year,” says Trustey.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
verobeachmagazine.com | Renae Tesauro
Most people come to Vero Beach for the beach. But those willing to venture away from sand and surf to the wild expanses west of Vero Beach will find what Bob Montuoro calls “the prettiest wetland you’ve ever seen.”He should know. For nearly two decades, Montuoro has operated Captain Bob’s Airboat Adventures, introducing generations of families from Vero Beach and beyond to the sights and sounds of Florida’s freshwater marshland.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
verobeachmagazine.com | Renae Tesauro
Visitors to Kristina and Mikael Pernfors’s home are always in for a treat—literally! The couple, both born and raised in Sweden, are sticklers about maintaining the custom of “fika,” the Swedish ritual of a coffee and cake break, much to the delight of their family and friends. “Swedes love their sweets,” says Kristina, a certified interior design and image consultant, personal style influencer, and fitness instructor who participated in last year’s Dancing with Vero’s Stars.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
verobeachmagazine.com | Renae Tesauro
Andy Thorry vividly recalls the day he and other members of Company B, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment of the 198th Infantry Brigade returned home from Vietnam. “It was July 1968, and we were loaded on a plane headed for Seattle, Washington,” says the 76-year-old veteran from Vero Beach. “Everybody was happy to be going home.”During their two years of service, the young men—most barely 21 years old—had endured more atrocities than most people ever experience in a lifetime.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
verobeachmagazine.com | Renae Tesauro
Whether you are Italian-American or simply a seafood lover, the Feast of the Seven Fishes is a Christmas Eve tradition worth embracing—especially for those of us surrounded by an abundance of fish.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
verobeachmagazine.com | Renae Tesauro
It’s been nearly 50 years since the fall of Saigon, but for retired Marine Corps Colonel Gerald “Gerry” Berry, details of that historic event seem like yesterday. On April 29, 1975, 30-year-old Captain Berry was the first, and one of the last, Marine Corps helicopter pilots conducting airlift evacuations from the U.S. Embassy to a fleet of U.S. Navy ships in the South China Sea.
