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Vero Beach Riverside Theatre Announces 2008-2009 Season

The Vero Beach professional equity Riverside Theatre proudly announces the upcoming season on the new Stark Mainstage. Season tickets are available now for the best seats. If you have not yet attended a production this past season, you will be quite pleased with the newly renovated theatre facility with very comfortable seating and excellent acoustics.

"Altar Boyz," the 2005 Outer Circle Critics Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical, will run next fall from October 10 to November 2, 2008.

From November 20 to December 7, "Souvenir" will explore the comedy of a wealthy New Yorker who sought a musical career during the 1930's and 40's.

"Breaking Legs" features a play-within-a-play as a mob family underwrites and then supervises a professor's efforts to produce his play. Showing January 9, 2009 to February 1, 2009.

"La Cage aux Follies" that won an amazing 8 Tony Awards will grace the Riverside stage from February 13 to March 8, 2009.

"Rounding Third" from April 16 to May 3, 2009 highlights Little League baseball fun.

Looks like it will be the Baltimore Orioles!

Vero Beach, Florida is still getting over losing the long-time residence of the Dodger's spring training camp, but the community is smiling broadly again through those last tears amidst heavy hints, and we are eagerly anticipating a potential deal with the Baltimore Orioles to take over the facilities and keep professional baseball in Vero Beach -- the smallest town to host a professional spring training camp. Perhaps it will be a bigger boon to tourism in our resort town since Baltimore is more convenient for the home fans to catch a preview of the Orioles team up close and personal here at the Vero Beach stadium. Now we are pondering new names for the stadium . . . any ideas?

Rocket Launch Seen from Vero Beach Florida

Vero Beach Florida was all abuzz on Saturday early evening as visitors and residents alike gathered on the beach for a view up the coast to see the latest rocket launch, laughingly dubbed the "potty rocket" in our gathering because they were carrying parts to repair the bathroom facilities on the space station. No we cannot feel the ground move as one can closer to the launch site, but it is still a thrill to watch the orange glow zoom into the sky so fast that you shouldn't get too involved in conversations and forget to watch the sky. Below is a photo of the launch from the 8th floor balcony of the Village Spires in Vero Beach.

Rocket Launch as seen from Vero Beach on 5-31-08

PIPER ANNOUNCES DECISION TO STAY in VERO BEACH FLORIDA! May 29, 2008


Florida Governor Charlie Crist arrived this afternoon in Vero Beach to announce that the Board of Directors of Piper Aircraft has accepted the $32 million Financial Incentive Package offered by the state of Florida and Indian River County. Piper agrees to benchmarks of investment and new jobs in order to qualify for the incremental public funding. The new small personal jet designed by a collaboration with Piper Aircraft and Honda will be built here in Vero Beach. Piper promises at least 400 new jobs over the next several years.

Patio Restaurant to Re-Open

Members of the Sexton family who own the Patio, a well-known Vero Beach eatery, say that they intend to reopen the restaurant as soon as they sort out the legal issues involved when the 24-year tenant recently abandoned the establishment a few days ago. They also plan to re-hire the employees who lost their jobs suddenly without prior notice. The owners are filing measures that will protect the contents of the restaurant that features treasured memorabilia collected over the years by Vero Beach pioneer settler Waldo Sexton and his family.