Merritt Island High School student, Justin Gregoire, will be doing something a little different this fall. October 11, 2026, is circled on his calendar. On that date, the 16-year-old will be running in the Chicago Marathon. And, it will be the first marathon he has ever run! […]
One Senior Place in Viera will be Grilling for Heroes on Saturday, July 25 from 11 AM until 2:00 PM, in a completely free family mega-event to honor essential pillars in our community: first responders, nurses and educators– past and present. […]
Despite a hard rain Thursday night, July 16, 2026, the Rockledge Fire Department, a division of the Rockledge Public Safety Department, held a Push-In Ceremony at Station 35 to put their new ladder truck into service. Approximately 200 people attended. […]
I recently had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Meghan Wolfgram, founder of SwiftPaws. Swift Paws is located in Melbourne, Florida, and offers indoor and outdoor lure courses for dogs and cats. The SwiftPaws lure kits are the first-ever backyard lure coursing machines. […]
The Tristen Karun Wright Memorial Foundation has officially announced its upcoming “iRUN4KARUN” 5K Run/Walk to be held on Saturday, August 15, 2026, at Max K. Rodes Park Community Center, 3410 Flanagan Avenue, in West Melbourne, Florida. The 5K gets underway at 8 a.m. […]
On April 21, 2026, the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law (CSTL) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in Washington, DC titled “Achieving a Just Response to Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths.” Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) denotes the death of an apparently healthy child under the age of one from undetermined causes. It is an umbrella term applied to the sudden death of an infant at the outset of an investigation, prior to the final certification of causes that include sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), death from unknown or unexplained causes, and death from accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed (ASSB). […]
Space Coast Tennis is officially heading to the world stage. David Bender, a standout player from Brevard County, will compete in the 14-and-Under Division at The Championships in Wimbledon. The tournament will be played July 9 – 12 at the world famous All England Lawn Tennis Club in London, England. […]
To commemorate the 15th anniversary of STS-135, the final mission of Space Shuttle Atlantis and the conclusion of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program, the crew of this historic flight will reunite on July 11, 2026, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, beneath the orbiter itself. […]
It’s been a very good first half of 2026 for the Friday Night Locker Room (Orville Susong and Steve Wilson). We are proud of the wide variety of events we have covered. What began in 2000 as an all-sports show has transformed into something neither one of us could have imagined. […]
Fourth of July traditions growing up on Florida’s Space Coast was watching the fireworks at Port Canaveral or from a barge near the Cocoa Beach Pier. […]
I recently had the opportunity to interview a special young lady, Jackie Austin. Austin, from Brevard County, recently created a nonprofit that helps families in crisis. Mia’s Helping Hands was formed to honor the memory of her sister’s little girl, Mia, now in heaven. […]
Summer can often arrive with high expectations. I still remember my last day of eighth grade at Jefferson Middle School. The teacher rolled out a boombox and blasted Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out for Summer” just before the final bell rang (I had no idea who Alice Cooper was, by the way). […]
