About Time

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 

NAC approves budget

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 

A family prepares to say goodbye

Cleaning out your heart’s closet takes place at the same time you clean out the garage when selling a home, especially when you helped build that house nearly 30 years previously. Both require a lot of time—longer, in many instances, than you had planned. Danny 

Student newspaper to ‘soar’ over walls

Schools often block the public’s participation in its activities. Harnessed by today’s safety and security measures, a school’s activities, projects and events often go unnoticed beyond the teachers, parents and students directly involved. A school’s walls become its barriers. Physical barriers, though, can be scaled 

Look to trends to map the future

The name of Crystal Langdon’s company, Crystal Clear Finances, might be considered an oxymoron to many people in today’s financial climate. In her recent address to the Port Salerno-Hobe Sound Rotary Club, however, Langdon spoke clearly about trend analysis research as the key to making