Jupiter Council Meets on Litigation, Coco Market Returns, and Cardinals Take Abacoa
A May 19 special meeting, a single-address boil notice, Jupiter Park Drive work, and a Sunday market at Carlin Park.
Council Heads Into a Closed-Door Litigation Session Tuesday
Town Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday, May 19, at 6 p.m. in Council Chambers, then recess into a private attorney-client session to discuss pending litigation in Town of Jupiter v. Equix Energy Services, Peoples Gas System, and Craig A. Smith & Associates. The Town notice lists Mayor Jim Kuretski, Vice Mayor Phyllis Choy, Councilors Malise Sundstrom, Ilan Kaufer, and Dan Guisinger, Town Attorney Thomas Baird, attorney Travis Foels, and Town Manager Frank Kitzerow among the expected attendees.
The closed session is scheduled to run about an hour starting at 6:07 p.m. The public-facing takeaway is simple: this is not a routine consent-agenda night. If you follow infrastructure, utilities, or Town legal exposure, May 19 is worth watching.
Planet Kids Annexation Comes Back for Second Reading
The same May 19 meeting schedule includes second reading on the Planet Kids annexation: two parcels totaling 1.4 acres at 6910 174th Street N and the southwest corner of 174th Street N and 68th Terrace N.
The proposal moves the land from Palm Beach County medium-residential into Jupiter high-density residential. If you live in that pocket north of town, this is the land-use item to track.
Boil Water Notice Issued for One Jupiter Farms Address
Jupiter Utilities issued a boil water order May 14 for 18445 Glenstone Street. The scope is narrow: one listed address, not a townwide alert. If you are on that property, boil water before drinking, cooking, or brushing teeth until Jupiter Utilities posts the lift notice.
For everyone else, this is mostly a reminder to read the address line before forwarding a water alert into the neighborhood text thread.
Jupiter Park Drive Project Enters Month Two
The roadway improvement project at Jupiter Park Drive and Central Boulevard is now in its second month. Crews are extending the eastbound right-turn lane, installing stormwater drainage, repaving, and adding curbing and swales.
The total timeline is roughly six months from the April 20 start, so this is not a one-week headache. Expect single-lane closures with flaggers as the work moves through the intersection.
SIX: Teen Edition Takes the Maltz Stage Saturday
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's Goldner Conservatory presents SIX: Teen Edition & Renaissance Faire on Saturday, May 16, at the Island Theatre, 1001 E. Indiantown Road. It's a one-night showcase for the conservatory's high school performers, with the school edition of the hit musical wrapped in a Renaissance Faire frame.
If you want something indoors before the full summer heat arrives, this is the tidy cultural pick.
Yoga in the Wild Starts Saturday at Busch Wildlife
Busch Wildlife Sanctuary lists Yoga in the Wild for Saturday, May 16, at 9 a.m. at 17855 Rocky Pines Road. Tickets are $20 per person, advance registration is required, and spaces are limited.
Good Jupiter weekend math: quiet morning, animals nearby, out before the day gets too hot.
Palm Beach Cardinals Are Home All Weekend
The Palm Beach Cardinals host the Daytona Tortugas at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium this weekend, with games listed Friday at 6:30 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m., and Sunday at 12:30 p.m. A team release says the Cardinals swept Wednesday's doubleheader against Daytona, 2-1 and 12-3, and that Sunday's game is part of the $10 Sunday promotion.
The Jupiter Hammerheads are away at St. Lucie this weekend and return home Tuesday, so the Cardinals are the Abacoa baseball play.
Coco Market Returns to Carlin Park Sunday
Coco Market Jupiter returns Sunday, May 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Seabreeze Amphitheater in Carlin Park. Jupiter Magazine describes the lineup as 60-plus local vendors, yoga and movement classes, sound healing, live music, and workshops.
Admission is free, and the setting does most of the work: market in the park, beach across A1A, lunch options five to ten minutes north.
Make a Morning of Carlin Park
Park at Carlin on Sunday, walk the Seabreeze loop, browse Coco Market until your beach bag has something in it, then cross A1A for an hour by the water. Sea turtle nesting season is underway, so keep the beach clean, flatten sandcastles before you leave, and give marked nests space.
If you still have steam, drive north for lunch near the inlet or climb the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse. From outdoor yoga to a red-brick tower first lit in 1860 is a very Jupiter kind of morning.
The Lighthouse, Meade, and the Buried Lens
The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse was first lit on July 10, 1860, and remains the oldest surviving structure in Palm Beach County. It was designed by Lieutenant George Gordon Meade, who would later command Union forces at Gettysburg.
During the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers disabled the light and buried the illuminating apparatus in Jupiter Creek. It stayed dark until 1866. Next time you drive past the tower, picture a young Army engineer, a malarial inlet, and a lens hidden in the creek bed.