Has recent rain doused wildfire worries?

Rainfall seldom has been greeted so joyously in Martin County as in the past two weeks, but was it enough to break the drought here? Officials from the South Florida Water Management District say, “No.” Although the regional rainfall total for March reached the historical 

BOCC Meeting

The next public hearing in two of the developments on Bridge Road will come before the Board of the County Commissioners on Tuesday, April 12, in the commission chambers at the Administrative Center on Monterey Road in Stuart at 9:30am. Commissioners will be asked to 

Polo Club’s proposed plans offer unique approach to gain density

A county planner’s endorsement, an agency member’s praise and a designer’s professional Power-Point presentation at the county’s Local Planning Agency meeting March 17 nearly fell short of convincing that agency to send the Hobe Sound Polo Club’s plans on their way in the next step 

Hobe Grove project still in early approval stages

Designers of the proposed Hobe Grove community on Bridge Road had until April 4 to respond with corrections, questions or comments to the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council’s summary of Becker Holdings’ preapplication presentation Feb. 16 in Stuart. The proposed new community and “employment center,” 

Visitors, organizers applaud two festivals

In back-to-back weekends under picture-perfect skies, two recent festivals enlivened this end of the county. The Port Salerno Seafood Festival along Manatee Pocket, in its fifth year, and the Hobe Sound Festival of the Arts, celebrating its tenth anniversary, brought thousands of visitors to this