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It’s not every day the public has an opportunity to see what happens when 11 talented designers take a brand-new, 5,100-square-foot house and transform it into a spectacular showplace.

Sometimes one likes to boast, just a little bit. In the case of Vero Beach Magazine, whose business is introducing the people, places and events of Vero Beach to a wide audience, perhaps it is acceptable for a thrill of pride to tiptoe into these pages when good things happen as the result of a story.

Hawk’s Nest. It’s an unusual name for a golf club, considering that the majority are named after a person, place or event.

There is a scientific renaissance taking place along the Treasure Coast, and the spark that ignited the flame can be traced back to a phone call that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush made to Dr. Richard Houghten, president of Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, a few years ago.

As the result of the damage caused by the 2004 hurricanes, the 13-story Village Spires twin towers had to be stripped down to steel and concrete. Thanks to a dedicated board of directors and supportive residents, the Spires today stands as a monument to what can be achieved when people work towards a common goal. "We have many wonderful people living here, some of them original owners," says board president Mark Weaver. "They had the strength and commitment to decide that they weren't going to leave, that they were going to see it through."

When Dr. John Gorrie started experimenting with a mechanical device to chill the air for his malaria patients at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Apalachicola, Fla., neither he nor anyone else could have foreseen the end result of what he had begun.

Although lacrosse hasn’t been and probably will never be a mainstream sport in the Sunshine State, Coach Shannon Dean and his staff opened new doors when the Vero Beach High School varsity girls lacrosse team won their first FHSAA State Championship in 2006.

It’s a typical morning at the G.R.O.W. Business Center as Jacqueline Reason responds to an applicant’s question, answers the phone and hands paperwork to a new arrival, all the while keeping an anxious eye on a technician she hopes can work miracles with her dark and silent computer.

Rain gardens are designed to collect and filter storm-water runoff from surfaces such as roofs, driveways, parking lots and roadways.

Many of the thousands of Floridians who head to the North Carolina mountains each year to escape the summer heat have at least a passing acquaintance with Asheville, which is an ideal jumping-off point for the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway.

When Geraldine Brooks arrived in Sarajevo in 1996 as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she witnessed firsthand the condition of the residents in the third year of the Bosnian War.

When visiting the beach, many of us make a point of avoiding the strip of debris that the sea deposits on the shore.

I am walking through the Vero Beach Museum of Art’s Schumann Gallery with docent and advisor Pat Gabaldon, who frequently leads tours for mid- to late-Alzheimer patients and their caregivers – one of many community outreach programs offered by the museum.

After visiting Vero Beach for several years, Frank and Jackie Bombaci decided it was time to put down permanent roots here.

It’s not often we hear of a story within a story, yet that’s just what happened after our feature on the Hawk’s Nest Golf Club appeared in our April issue.

Slippers, check. Newspaper, check. Racing forms, check.

London-based journalist Danny Danziger is a master interviewer whose subjects come alive each week in his London Sunday Times column, “Best of Times, Worst of Times.”

Cemeteries are quiet, easily-forgotten places, yet they stand as reminders of all that has gone before us, briefly memorializing each human life, unique and individual.