Juvenile plays Abacoa Town Center tonight

A bit of housekeeping for your Friday: the Jupiter Municipal Complex is closed today, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth, and reopens Monday, June 22, at 8 a.m. Police and emergency services are running their normal schedules, so this is really just a heads-up if you had Town Hall business in mind — hold it until the start of next week.

Hurricane season runs June 1 through Nov. 30, and the Town has posted its 2026 Hurricane & Flood Guide to view or download. It walks through tips and resources for the different stages of a storm — the kind of thing that's easy to skim now and very hard to track down the morning a system is bearing down. The guide went up June 4, just a few days into a season that's already running, and the Town is making it available free to read online or save to your phone. Pulling it up while the skies are quiet is the sort of small civic habit that pays off later — better to have it in hand than to go hunting for it once the forecast turns and everyone else is doing the same. Worth a few quiet minutes now.

A Jupiter institution is making a trip up the road: Busch Wildlife Sanctuary is hosting a giveback with Lilly Pulitzer at The Gardens Mall (3101 PGA Boulevard, Palm Beach Gardens) on Wednesday, June 24, from noon to 4 p.m. The idea is to shop alongside the sanctuary's animal ambassadors while supporting local wildlife conservation. It's not in Jupiter proper, but it's our sanctuary doing the work.

Closer to home, Busch Wildlife Sanctuary (17855 Rocky Pines Road) has a Crafting for Conservation session on Sunday, June 28, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The project is sun-powered botanical art made with natural pigments — turmeric among them — with a little science and conservation woven in. It's an easy morning for families or anyone who likes a hands-on hour outdoors, the kind of low-key activity where the making and the learning come bundled together rather than feeling like a lesson. At ninety minutes it's a manageable slot, too — long enough to settle into the craft and let the sun do its part, short enough to fold into a Sunday without rearranging the rest of the day.

Looking a couple of weeks out, Abacoa Town Center has 4thAPooza on the books for the holiday weekend — Friday, July 3 from 6 to 10 p.m. and Saturday, July 4 from 4 to 10 p.m. — promising food, fun, and fireworks. No need to plan around it yet, but it's shaping up to be the big local Fourth of July anchor if you're starting to map out that weekend. With two nights on the calendar, there's room to catch it however the holiday shakes out — the Friday evening if you want a head start, or the longer Saturday stretch if you'd rather build the day around it. We'll circle back closer to the Fourth, but it's worth holding a loose spot on the calendar now before the rest of the weekend fills in.

If tonight doesn't work, the Town Center hands the stage Saturday, June 20, at 7:30 p.m. to 'Life in Technicolor,' a Coldplay tribute billed with soaring soundscapes, glowing melodies, and immersive energy. Two music nights back to back in Downtown Abacoa is a fair excuse to make a weekend of it.

Abacoa's Golf Cart Night is listed for Friday night, July 3. The series usually runs the first Friday of the month, and the July listing shows evening hours — the page notes 7 to 11 p.m. against the usual 6 p.m. start — so it's worth checking the Abacoa page closer to the date to confirm the time before you roll over.

And the second-Friday tradition continues: Food Truck Fridays comes back to Downtown Abacoa on Friday, July 10, from 5:30 to 10 p.m., billed as the 'ultimate picnic.' We pointed you to the June round last time, so consider this your early reminder to pencil in the next one.