Katya Salamatina, of Moscow, Russia, attended a recent Hobe Sound-Port Salerno Rotary Club meeting to talk about today’s Russia. She gave the Rotarians a glimpse of everyday life as an “ordinary” Russian citizen. “We invited her to speak because Rotary is an international club,” said …
Outside, Looking In by Gordon Barlow When I was a boy in Australia, all our world maps showed the British Empire in red. It pretty much embraced the world; the sun never set on it; God was an Englishman. We were lucky to be a …
Basketball season set to wrap up 23rd year By Myles Mousseau Hobe Sound Elementary Sports Editor “Swish” is the sound of a bright orange basketball gliding into a net. This happens often every year for third through fifth graders at Hobe Sound Elementary, who want …
When watchmaker Gabe Ellenson opened his little shop, About Time, in downtown Hobe Sound in 2004, the sound of chiming clocks often greeted shoppers strolling down the sidewalk outside. “Once I had a magnificent music box in there,” Gabe says, as he gestures with his …
The budget once allocated by the Martin County Board of Commissioners for Hobe Sound redevelopment definitely has shrunk, said Kevin Freeman, Martin County Redevelopment Director, at the Nov. 18 meeting of the Neighborhood Advisory Committee meeting at the Hobe Sound Community Building. But it has …