A retired architect with deep roots in Martin County has built on his long-standing interest in historic preservation to write about the nation’s midcentury history as seen through the eyes, and especially the ears, of a journalist who covered the popular music scene from the 1930s to the 1970s.
You never really know who’s sitting behind the microphone at a local jam session. That unassuming saxophonist blending into a Fort Pierce Jazz & Blues Society Tuesday night jam may have been a professor at Berklee College of Music.
On Oct. 6, audiences across the country were informed and moved by six student-written, student-read, one-act plays, chosen from more than 3,000 entries to the Enough! Plays to End Gun Violence competition. Among the six plays was Nobody Cares About Death, written by Hobe Sound’s Ian Hodges.
As insurance and medical costs continue to rise, millions of Americans are left without access to basic care, causing many to slip through the cracks of the healthcare system. The uninsured are more likely to skip regular doctor visits or wait until a chronic ailment becomes so dire, they wind up in an emergency room. But in Martin County, they don’t have to wait.
As a young girl growing up in New Jersey, Linda Haering Frank asked her mother for art classes; as a teenager, she painted colorful gas tanks for Harley-Davidson motorcycles; as a young mother, she practiced her art in a tattoo parlor.
Port St. Lucie native Jessie DaSilva, a business consultant and life coach, was selected as one of Yahoo Finance’s Top 10 Money Coaches in 2020.
Jerry Rogak’s mother may have considered him a “bum” at one time, but this Port St. Lucie potter has never been idle for long.
Nurses routinely identify and treat belly ailments, but not many are also belly dancers like Port St. Lucie’s Elizabeth Petrell.
Inspired by her beloved grandmother and the struggle she had getting medical help in rural north Florida, Madetric N. Wood opened her nurse practitioner practice in geriatrics — where she literally goes out of her way to reach patients who couldn’t make it to her office.
Little girls all around the world dream of becoming a mermaid, but only a very few make that a reality. Even fewer are able to parlay that love of the mythical sirens into a thriving business venture.
