Your tap water starts tasting like a pool on Sunday, the city’s fire fee is now $224, and Boca just counted more turtle nests than any year on record.

Let's get into it.

From Sunday through October 11 the city swaps chloramine for free chlorine, so your kitchen sink will smell like a pool. Hydrant flushing runs alongside it, so expect cloudy water and low pressure.

Safe to drink, but call 561-338-7310 first if you run home dialysis or a fish tank.

Buy a lemon.

Source: BocaNewsNow

Council adopted the budget 5-0 on Tuesday and raised the residential fire assessment to $224, then added $1.8 million for a Fire Rescue truck hit on I-95 on September 16.

Adjusters call it a likely total loss, and the replacement is 12 to 13 months out.

The fire chief called a year extremely quick.

Source: Boca Post

Gumbo Limbo has logged 1,118 loggerhead nests and 43 leatherback on Boca beaches this season, both city records, and nesting season does not close until October 31.

Add 153 green turtle nests and the season is already past 1,300, on one strip of sand.

Lights off on the beach side until Halloween.

Source: City of Boca Raton

Three weeks ago this section was a struggle. Here's the whole weekend, hour by hour.

Local makers take over the open-air courtyard at Shops at Boca Center for the Friday Night Artisan Market, 5pm to 10pm, free, and Rocco's Tacos and Tap 42 sit on either side of it the whole time. 5250 Town Center Circle.

Then it's the harmonies. The Long Run sings the whole Eagles catalogue at Crazy Uncle Mike's, a band the venue calls some of Florida's finest and most respected musicians, 8:30pm to 11:30pm at 6450 North Federal Highway.

Also Friday: Lynn's No. 12 ranked volleyball team hosts Eckerd at 7pm, and Sephora at Town Center has an Evereden event at 6pm.

Start with 250 free native trees. Community Greening is giving away avocado, cinnamon bark, marlberry and Spanish stopper to Boca residents at Meadows Park from 9am, first come. 1300 NW 8th Street. An hour later there's free Zumba on the sand at the South Beach Park Pavilion, 10am to 11am, drop in, 400 N State Road A1A.

At night, four bands made of Boca business people who've been taking lessons all year finally play. Season eight of the Golden Bell Battle of the Bands puts Hell on Heelz, BandsWithBenefits, Storm Surge and No Retreat No Surrender on a real stage at BRiC, coached by School of Rock Boca Raton, benefiting the Golden Bell Education Foundation. 6:30pm to 11pm, 21 and over, $75 general with a beer or wine included and $100 VIP. 4920 Conference Way N.

Or go small: The Listening Room at Barrel of Monks is $20 for a seated set inside a Belgian-style brewery, doors 7:45pm, 1141 S Rogers Circle #5.

Also Saturday: Nature Connections at Gumbo Limbo 11:30am free, Lynn vs Saint Leo 4pm, Brian Simpson at the Funky Biscuit 6pm and 9pm $40 to $55, Tommy Savitt stand-up at The Box 2.0 7:30pm $42.27, Beatlemaniax USA at Boca Black Box 8pm from $56.98, and Unlimited Devotion playing the Dead at Crazy Uncle Mike's 8:30pm.

Yoga at the Museum is a vinyasa class led by Leslie Glickman surrounded by the work, with a curator talk on one piece afterward. Then at three, Artists on Art brings photographer Irene Hill in on portraiture through Arnold Newman and Dorothea Lange. Both are bookable right now and neither one is on the museum's own events page. Yoga is $30 or $15 for members, Artists on Art is $20. 501 Plaza Real.

Afternoon has range. Supercars park around the pool at Cars and Cabanas, 11am at La Piscine by Meat Market, 2000 NW 19th Street. A Beastie Boys tribute plays The Blue Dog from noon to 5pm for $13.75. And pianist Darko Varga plays FAU's Faculty Recital at the University Theatre at 3pm.

Wind down in the same courtyard the market was in: Shops at Boca Center runs free Pilates at 5pm. Then FAU's women host Memphis in an American Conference match at 6pm at the FAU Soccer Stadium, 777 Glades Road, also on ESPN+.

Also Sunday: Matcha and Meetup at noon $12.51, Wines and Lines at Beauty in Ink 4:30pm with a free tier, Fugitive Souls free at Crazy Uncle Mike's 7pm, 3 Decades Rewind at Boca Black Box 7pm, NFL Sundays from 11am, and Sephora has Gisou at 11 and Glow Recipe at noon.

The Boca Green Market opens its whole season at the 5th Ave Shops with 65 plus vendors, produce, flowers, baked goods and live music, then runs every Sunday through May. Across town the Boca Farmers Market runs year round at BRiC with 90 plus. Both 9am to 1pm, both free. 1954 NE Fifth Avenue and 4950 Communication Avenue.

Opening day is the one Sunday every vendor turns up. Do one, then the other.

It runs both days. The Downtown Delray Beach Craft Festival puts handmade jewelry, ceramics, art and body products up NE 4th Avenue for two blocks off Atlantic, and admission is free, so you can give it twenty minutes or four hours.

Saturday and Sunday 10am to 4pm, free, 401 East Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach.

Lovecats does The Cure and Notorious does Duran Duran, back to back at Arts Garage, which is a small room two blocks off Atlantic. Eat on the Ave first and walk over.

Saturday 8pm, $53 to $58 including fees, 94 NE 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach.

Twenty minutes up the road and you land on the best restaurant street in the county either way.

Parlor Doughnuts makes a layered doughnut that lands somewhere between a croissant and the thing you grew up with, and the Mizner Park shop runs its grand opening across both weekend days.

Saturday and Sunday 8am to 4pm, 9 Plaza Real South, Suite 108.

Opening weekend is the only weekend the line is part of the fun.

It's the duck. Ramen Lab Eatery fans five spice duck breast over bean sprouts, bok choy, garlic oil and micro cilantro, calls it a family recipe right there on the menu, and nobody else in town is copying it. The kitchen runs until 10pm Friday and Saturday, which is the West Boca room's own schedule, not the downtown one.

The 5 Spice Duck Ramen is $21 and the tonkotsu with chashu pork belly and a soft egg is $18.99. 20449 State Road 7, Suite A5.

Order the duck. The tonkotsu will keep.

It's called a lash lift reversal. Blueprint Beauty is a one room brow and lash studio off NW 2nd Avenue, run by an esthetician named Kristen, and it relaxes lashes that came out over curled or uneven no matter who did them. Text her a clear photo first and she'll tell you whether it's the right call. She's open on Sundays.

The reversal is $70 for thirty minutes, and brow lamination with shaping and tint is $145. 4700 NW 2nd Avenue, Suite 103.

Ask for the acupressure massage while the lamination sets. It's already in the price.

The other two are open gym and the 5:30pm class you'd actually start with. An hour at Boca Boxing District on North Dixie is warm up, partner drills, bag work, conditioning, then a cool down jog outside, and it's a real fight gym rather than a class with gloves on. Saturday at 10am is a ladies only hour.

Your first class is free for new clients.

5400 North Dixie Highway, Suite 6. 561-931-3449.

Wrap your hands. They'll teach you the rest.

Source: Boca Boxing District

Vince at Town Center is doing 25% off storewide, most full price and sale merchandise included, running through October 4. adidas in the same mall is up to 60% off through September 30. Downtown, Madeline's Boutique has evening and cocktail dresses up to 40% off at 20 SE 3rd Street, and they're closed Sunday so it's a two day window.

Macy's runs Celebration Saturday on the 26th, 10am to 9pm, with fall styling, giveaways and purchase-with-purchase.

And Sephora at Town Center has five in store events across three days: Evereden Friday at 6pm, a ROZ hair event and a skincare session Saturday at 11am with a makeup launch at 6pm, then Gisou Sunday at 11am and Glow Recipe at noon.

Constance King is a certified aromatherapist, trained at the New York Institute of Aromatic Studies, and she hand pours Constance K Aromatherapy out of a studio in the Boca Design Center. Crystal topped candles on wood wicks, reed diffusers, body mist sets, and free in store pickup. Petals in Bloom is $55 and shipping is free over $80. 3100 NW Boca Raton Boulevard, Suite 309.

Boca Raton Bridal is running two at once. Dana Harel is in through October 3 and Leah Da Gloria XII and Bohème IX opens today and runs through October 4. A trunk show is the only window where you see a designer's full run in one room instead of the two or three pieces a shop normally carries.

Dana Harel gowns run $5,500 to $13,000 and Leah Da Gloria $4,500 to $20,000. 3591 North Federal Highway.

Book the appointment. Walking in on a trunk show weekend is optimistic.

Ants, roaches, spiders, rodents, wasps and mosquitoes, every one of them with a number next to it. Buggify Pest Solutions is Tyler Craig, his wife and their three kids, working out of West Boca since 2018, and the number on the site rings Tyler's own phone between 8am and 5pm. No contract, billed per visit.

A one time ant treatment starts at $175, and a roach or spider job is $195.

West Boca, 33428. 561-672-0200.

Get the estimate before the first cold front. Everything with legs comes indoors.

Source: Buggify Pest Solutions

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Three weeks ago there was nothing on this list. Now there's a market Friday night, a market Sunday morning, a second market across town at the same hour, four amateur bands on a real stage, a ranked volleyball team playing twice, a yoga class inside the museum that the museum forgot to put on its own calendar, and a piano recital nobody is charging you for. Summer's over. Boca woke up.

The rest is yours to spend. A duck bowl worth the ride out to West Boca. A one room studio that'll undo a lash lift somebody else got wrong. A boxing gym that'll give you the first hour and see if you come back. Four sales running at once, two bridal trunk shows, and a pest guy who answers his own phone. And if you still want more, Atlantic Avenue is twenty minutes north.

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