October 10, 2025 - Did you know that the beaches near Merritt Island are home to some of the most important sea turtle nesting grounds in the world? So when we hear about these gentle creatures breaking records we feel the need to share.
October 1, 2025 - Here’s a spooky and fun approach to fundraising by Field Manor in Merritt Island. Just in time for the Halloween season, the organization is offering up a chance to foster one of the possible apparitions that may or may not haunt the historic structure.
September 19, 2025 - Blue Origin announces plans to utilize historic Complex 36 at Kennedy Space Center. Here's a letter from Jeff Bezos, the founder of the company: Today we
September 18, 2025 - (from MERRITTISLANDNOW.COM August edition) Two award-winning robotic teams at Edgewood Jr./Sr. High in Merritt Island now have a new building where they can hone their skills.
September 8, 2025 - Port Canaveral is only a few miles from Merritt Island and it is one of the world's busiest cruise ports. But there is also a gem
September 5, 2025 – Orlando Business Journal recently gathered data on the growth of the space industry in central Florida and much of that activity will be happening on Florida’s
August 11, 2025 - Royal Caribbean’s Star of the Seas* arrived this weekend in Port Canaveral for the first time. With one week to go before the first vacationers set sail,
(From Florida Today) June 12, 2025 - High-tech space and aerospace industries have mushroomed and flourished across Florida's Space Coast — to magnitudes few could have predicted — since NASA
June 12, 2025 - The community is watching the progress of the Amphitheater at the Veterans Memorial Park with great interest and the magazine "Merritt Island Now" recently published a
May 1, 2025 - Port Canaveral, Florida’s premier seaport, is investing upwards of $500 million in landside and waterside improvements as part of its comprehensive “Port Canaveral Advantage” plan to expand capacity and capabilities across all aspects of its business operations.
April 29, 2025 - Foreshadowing the future, two rockets lifted a combined 50 broadband satellites for two rival space-based internet companies into low-Earth orbit Monday, April 28, from Florida's Space Coast
April 23, 2025 – Recently, The Brevard Zoo's Restore Our Shores team, along with volunteers and the Brevard County Parks & Recreation Department, worked to plant a “buffer zone” along
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