BACK COUNTRY BY ROBERT ADAMS- Fall 2025
Autumn in central Florida brings, along with the changing leaves, mating season for wild Osceola turkeys [Meleagris gallopavo Osceola]. Named for the great Seminole leader, Chief Osceola...
Autumn in central Florida brings, along with the changing leaves, mating season for wild Osceola turkeys [Meleagris gallopavo Osceola]. Named for the great Seminole leader, Chief Osceola...
As insurance and medical costs continue to rise, millions of Americans are left without access to basic care, causing many to slip through the cracks of the healthcare system. The uninsured are more likely to skip regular doctor visits or wait until a chronic ailment becomes so dire, they wind up in an emergency room. But in Martin County, they don’t have to wait.
At Wyderski Health in Vero Beach, Dr. Rich Wyderski offers a small, membership-based internal medicine and geriatrics practice designed to provide patients with unparalleled access and personalized care. This concierge model allows for extended visits, same- or next-day appointments for acute issues, 24/7 physician availability, and even home visits when medically necessary or homebound.
As a young girl growing up in New Jersey, Linda Haering Frank asked her mother for art classes; as a teenager, she painted colorful gas tanks for Harley-Davidson motorcycles; as a young mother, she practiced her art in a tattoo parlor.
Traditional surgery to correct the potentially dangerous — and highly annoying — cloudy vision caused by cataracts is among the most effective, and the most commonly performed surgeries in the nation, but there was still significant room for improvement.
Your elderly parent is in the hospital—anxious, alone. Medical personnel come and go. When you visit, you can’t stay long because of children at home. You wish you could do more.
When we started this humble publication nearly 20 years ago, the two advertising representatives we had at the time, Sunny Gates and Ed Drondoski, and I would often meet on Friday evenings at a house I was renting on South Indian River Drive in Fort Pierce, after I had moved back to the Treasure Coast from Alabama.
At Becker Preserve, a quiet stretch of conservation land managed by the Environmental Learning Center, native swamp lilies are in full bloom, offering a rare glimpse into Florida’s wetland biodiversity.
At Becker Preserve, a quiet stretch of conservation land managed by the Environmental Learning Center, native swamp lilies are in full bloom, offering a rare glimpse into Florida’s wetland biodiversity.
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