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4 unusual facts about Vero Beach


Herb Oscar Anderson

Currently - WOSN FM Vero Beach, Florida, Started on Saturday afternoons, later to Sunday evenings in 2013 with a one-hour show called "Conversation."

Hooded Merganser

A species of fossil duck from the Late Pleistocene of Vero Beach, Florida, was described as Querquedula floridana (a genus now included in Anas), but upon reexamination turned out to be a species closely related to the Hooded Merganser; it is now named Lophodytes floridanus, but the exact relationship between this bird and the modern species is unknown.

Robert J. McIntosh

He resumed the practice of law and was a resident of Port Huron, Michigan and Vero Beach, Florida.

Tour de Turtles

After departing from some of the most important nesting sites in the Western Hemisphere, typically Vero Beach, Florida and Melbourne Beach, Florida, sea turtles will be monitored using Platform Terminal Transmitter (PTT) that send signals via satellite to record their locations and the distances traveled.


Albert Lee Ueltschi

He spent his winters in Vero Beach, Florida, but worked daily in the warmer months at FlightSafety's headquarters at the Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport in Flushing, Queens, New York.

Alexander MacWilliam, Sr.

(1891–1966) was a mayor of Vero Beach, Florida from 1927 to 1945, and from 1949 to 1951, he also served in the Florida House of Representatives from Indian River County in the 1933, 1945, 1947, 1949 and 1951 sessions.

Carol Richards

Carol Swiedler (Stage name Carol Richards or Carole Richards), (born 6 June 1922 in Harvard, Illinois, died in Vero Beach, Florida, March 16, 2007) was an American singer, radio and television performer, remembered for her duet with Bing Crosby on the hit single "Silver Bells".

Transportation in Brevard County, Florida

Extending all the way from the northern boundary with Volusia County to the southern boundary with Indian River County is the major expressway Interstate 95, which links all cities in Brevard County with each other, and with Daytona Beach to the north, and Vero Beach to the south.


see also

Gary Parris

Parris served on the Vero Beach City Council from 1984 to 1986 and ran for the Indian River County, Florida Commission District 3 seat in 2008, losing to incumbent Gary C. Wheeler.

Paul Janensch

In 2010 his weekly “Treasure Coast Essays” began on NPR-affiliated station WQCS, serving Florida communities of Vero Beach and Fort Pierce.

Vero Beach Devil Rays

On August 25, 2008, it was announced that the Vero Beach franchise was sold to Ripken Baseball, which resulted in a relocation of the franchise to Port Charlotte, Florida to become the Charlotte Stone Crabs.