Coco Market takes over Old School Square Sunday
Plus a burial plot sold twice, and a $4-per-hour fee coming to county beach lots.
Coco Market brings its wellness festival to the Delray Beach Amphitheatre at Old School Square on Sunday, August 2. It runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and it is free. The schedule leans on yoga, meditation and sound baths, with workshops and crafts running alongside. Local vendors and food vendors fill out the rest of the lawn. There are activities for kids and for adults, which is rarer than it should be in August. Water is free too, and in August that is not a small detail. It wraps at two, so it is a morning plan, not an all-day one.
A Delray yard that feeds the house
Florida health officials have reported 94 confirmed cyclosporiasis cases, two of them in Palm Beach County. That is the backdrop for Ryan Boylston, who grows greens and other produce in his own Delray Beach yard. Boylston served in elected office in Delray from 2018 to 2024, and his company, Urban Abundance, installs edible gardens, so the advice comes with a business behind it. It is still sound advice. Find the sun, put in automatic irrigation, and plant with the season instead of against it. Nobody is feeding a household off a raised bed. But knowing where the greens came from has its own value right now.
A plot bought in 2006, with someone already in it
Sandra Owens bought a burial plot in Delray Beach in 2006. In 2024 she learned that someone else was already interred in it. The city blames an error in its old cemetery software, which it says has since been replaced. It also says it knows of no other affected plots. Undoing it is not simple. The city cannot disinter the other person on its own, without that family and a legal process. So it offered a full refund, adjacent plots so Owens could rest near her brother, or a no cost move of her mother's remains so she could rest near her mother. None of it is the plot she chose in 2006.
Beale Street blues, then a cheap Tuesday
Jonathan Ellison plays Arts Garage tonight, August 1, from 8 to 10 p.m., with tickets at $50.50 to $55.50. He performs under the nickname King of Beale Street, which sets a bar for a Saturday night. The venue keeps working after that. Comedy Open Mic runs Tuesday, August 4, from 8 to 10:30 p.m., at $20 to $25, the cheap seat of the three. RF Factor takes the stage Saturday, August 8, from 8 to 10 p.m., at $48 to $53. Three nights, three different bills, one room.
County beach lots get a nonresident fee
Palm Beach County is slated to start charging $4 per hour on October 1 to park at 12 county parks. The fee is aimed at nonresidents. County residents can keep parking free with an annual pass, though the details of the pass are still being worked out. The southern parks named are Ocean Inlet, Ocean Ridge Hammock and Gulfstream. The pass will not help you at South Inlet or R.G. Kreusler, because both have charged for parking for decades and stay that way. None of those sit in Delray, and the city already charges at its own beachfront lots. This one matters most when you are showing someone around.
Three dates to hold downtown
THRoW Social hosts a Tweens K-Pop Summer Dance Party on Wednesday, August 5, from 6 to 9 p.m., which solves a midweek problem for a very specific age bracket. Candle Land runs a Floral Arrangement and Candle Making Workshop the same evening, Wednesday, August 5, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Then the Delray Beach Historical Society runs a lecture on Tuesday, August 11, from 6 to 8 p.m., titled 100 Years of Surfing in Delray Beach and Beyond. A century of local surfing is more material than a town this size has any right to.