Dunbar Center, at the heart of the Banner Lake community of Hobe Sound, received a new playground recently, to the delight of their preschoolers. The old playground unit, loaned from the Martin County School District, had to be cordoned nearly a year ago after rust …

Special recognition was given to Stuart attorney Lauri J. Goldstein at the recent Hobe Sound Elementary School D.A.R.E graduation. She had provided each of the Hobe Sound graduates T-shirts that commemorated their individual achievements in the Drug Awareness Resistance Education course. Goldstein had also provided …

Seldom do I watch the Jeopardy! game show anymore; however, the promos for the IBM super-computer’s match against Jeopardy!’s top-two money winners, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, hooked me. As it turned out, their brains were no match for the room-sized Watson with scores that …

Green Cotton by Evin O’Keeffe The beginning of the calendar year became our chance to instigate change in ourselves, but for many of us, it was easier said than done. Now it’s March, and my New Year’s resolutions have stuck. How do it do it? …

Editorial by Barbara Clowdus The clock ticks away opportunity along with time to polish and refurbish downtown Hobe Sound before other developments gut its luster and life. Residents have the power to effect real change and to by-step previous bureaucratic hurdles to genuine “re”-development of …