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Pretzel Logic

Current Issue, Local, People & Business

Necessity, notes the adage, is the mother of invention. In the case of Meghan Wolfgram, necessity weighed about 10 pounds and took the form of a miniature pinscher named Pretzel.

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If at first you do succeed, try it again!

Current Issue, Space Coast Business, Sponsored Content

Through the years you may have seen Grace Vista’s big for sale signs gracing riverfront homes on Rockledge Drive, Melbourne and surrounding areas. Or perhaps you remember her locally famous bus stop ads in Viera and Suntree. Grace has been known throughout the Space Coast for her innovative advertising and award-winning real estate service.

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Shell, yeah!

Local

Almost every day, before many of us have yet to gain strength from a morning cup of coffee, Humberto Rivera heads to the seashore, cultivator in hand. His intent is not gardening, but rather shelling.

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A Season of Heart, Art and Community

Holidays, Local, Publisher's Note

As the holidays approach, the Space Coast once again reveals its best qualities — compassion, creativity, and connection. This season, our community shines not just with twinkling lights and festive décor, but with the warmth of people coming together to lift one another, celebrate traditions and create lasting memories.

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Christmas with compassion

Giving Back, Holidays, Local

Gifts from the Heart Christmas Shops have a most eclectic business plan. They open one week each year, and merchandise is discounted 70 to 80 percent. It’s definitely not the way to make a profit, but Gifts from the Heart is not out to make money — it’s out to generate joy and dignity for families in the county’s under-resourced communities.

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New chapter

Space Coast Homes

Bud and Kim Deffebach’s connection with Mango Manor began long before they purchased the storied Melbourne Beach home in 2004.

When Harry “Bud” Deffebach was growing up just a few blocks away in Indialantic, the two-acre estate was already a local landmark. Kim, whom Bud met at the University of Florida, was soon familiar with the house.

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Naturally

Arts & Community

Landscape photography is much more than pretty scenery. Ansel Adams, the titan of that genre, noted that photography is visual storytelling rooted in the photographer’s very soul. A great photograph, he said, “fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”

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Old school

Travel, Travel & Outdoors

Just half an hour from the hubbub and seemingly relentless development at Viera, the trappings of today’s Florida are replaced by airboats and old docks, tea-colored swaths of water leading to the horizon, enticing platters heaped with gator nuggets, catfish and frog legs, and landscapes teeming with wildlife.

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Against the grain

Eat & Drink, Local

When one of Bryan Fine’s childhood best friends, Alex Molina, told him that their go-to pizza joint was hiring, Fine grabbed the opportunity.

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Mangia magic

Eat & Drink, Local

Twice a day, several times during the week, an unusual thing happens in the otherwise quiet town of Grant-Valkaria on the southern border of Brevard County.

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