Here I construct an example which proves the answer is NO.
Take the KK fan:
Remove its dispersion point at the top. Now you have a Cantor set of lines of rationals/irrationals that cannot be separated horizontally. Stretch this into a "Cantor-like tube" and weave it closer and closer to a point p in the plane while shrinking its diameter and making sure that every loop goes a distance of 7 away from p.
Remove p and you have a hereditarily disconnected space (simeq KK fan minus its vertex). If A is nonempty and clopen in X then A must snake around the tube forever, so it limits to p and thus pinA. Therefore X is connected.
The ball of radius 1 around p is hereditarily disconnected.
EDIT: I am basically taking the space which consists of the curve below, and the origin p=(0,0) (so 0times(0,1] is not included). The difference is that instead of weaving a line, I am weaving this "Cantor tube" while shrinking its diameter. In the first case if I remove p then I get something simeq[0,infty), whereas in the second case I get something simeq my Cantor tube.
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