By Carl Kotala The way Viera High boys basketball coach Josh Sykes sees it, the Hawks have nothing to regret, and only positives to take from a landmark season that ended Tuesday night with a 56-53 loss to visiting Oviedo in the Class 7A regional semifinals. “I couldn’t be more ecstatic as a head coach,” [...]

Viera girls advance to regional finals By Carl Kotala Trailing at halftime of Tuesday night’s Class 7A regional semifinal against Evans (Orlando), the Viera High Hawks made an adjustment in both defense, and attitude. Now, they’re one more victory away from reaching the Final Four. Sparked by sophomore Rolanda Hayes’ 20 points and a near [...]

Viera boys win districts, will host playoff game Thursday By Carl Kotala A big fourth quarter paid off in a big way for the Viera High boys’ basketball team last week. Senior guard Connor Muzzy went 4-for-4 at the free throw line, including a pair of foul shots with 3.9 seconds remaining to seal the [...]

BY DELICIA POP On Saturday, Oct. 1, the Viera High School Army JROTC program competed in its first JROTC Raider competition for the 2011-2012 school year. The competition was held at Viera with schools from Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Astronaut and Heritage participating. Overall, Viera’s male and female teams performed well. The Viera [...]

BY ANGELA SMITH For the past two years, a group of women have gathered from throughout the Viera community, but they don’t meet to discuss the latest book they’ve read or to trade recipes – they meet to exchange their love for the underwater world. What began as a simple Meetup.com group to find local [...]

BY LINDA WIGGINS Wendell “Tom” Thomas of Viera got the Oct. 18 birthday surprise of his life when he flew in the cockpit of a single-engine airplane and the pilot told him to take the controls. It was a first since his days as an Air Force pilot, the memories flooding back like it was [...]

The First Annual Scarecrow Stroll and Harvest Festival was a HUGE success!  Residents of our community “strolled” through over 30 of Viera’s local businesses to view their respective scarecrows casting over 100 ballots to vote for their favorite scarecrow during the “Scarecrow Stroll” held October 1st – 14th. On October 15th, the scarecrows were moved [...]

HAWKS START STRONG UNDER NEW COACHING STAFF By Carl Kotala The Viera High football team has gotten off to a fast start under new coach Kevin Mays. “The kids are excited about it,” Mays said. “The school’s excited about it. Everybody from the administration on down is ready to jump on board and get rolling. [...]

Sand Scuplters live in Brevard County Special to Viera Voice World Champion sand sculptors Jill Harris and Thomas Koet, owners of Sandsational Sand Sculpting, having been creating  one-of-a-kind works of art for Manatee Elementary School since  2002, as part of Sandsational’s annual Art in Public Schools project to promote Fine Arts among young people. Each [...]

By Carl Kotala The Viera High bowling program, now in its second season of existence, is off and running. The boys team won its first three matches of the season, including an 8-0 victory against Cocoa Beach at Harbour Lanes in which Matt Cassoni, Brandon Shank and Greg Young all bowled a 196. Patrick Franza [...]