Indiantown and Hobe Sound: What Happens When a County Commission Fails

Article Posted on March 13, 2017

By: Nancy Smith, Sunshine State News

Despite a new, business-friendlier commission majority elected last fall in Martin County, the dictatorial regime of the last commission woke up a pair of unincorporated Martin communities.

Leaders in rural Indiantown in western Martin County  and to a lesser extent in Hobe Sound,  18 miles farther east, are tired of living at the whim of commissioners who think they know better than the citizens what's good for them.

They want independence…


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