The Boca Raton sells homes on its grounds for the first time, from $8.95 million per home

The city says Mark Sohaney is leaving to "pursue a new professional opportunity that will allow him to return to serving the military community." He previously served as commanding officer of Naval Air Station Key West and Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. He announced the move on Oct. 16, 13 months after taking the job, and no departure date was given. He was hired in September 2025 after a nationwide search run by a professional firm, succeeding George S. Brown, who retired, at a salary of $300,000 plus benefits. The City Council will choose interim leadership and decide how to find the next manager. Boca Raton has two deputy city managers, Andrew Lukasik and Jim Zervis, who is also the CFO. The council now faces its second time picking a manager in little more than a year.

Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a statewide e-bike safety bill, SB 382, in June, leaving the rules to cities, and Boca Raton has not passed its own ordinance; instead the city is offering a class. Its online safety course is open to riders 12 to 19, and the first 150 to enroll take it at no cost. Dr. Patricio Lau, trauma medical director at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami-Dade, estimates e-bike injuries have increased three-fold in the past couple of years, speaking of his hospital's patients, not Boca figures. Without a local ordinance, state bicycle law generally applies: riders may use streets, bike lanes, paths and sidewalks, and on a sidewalk they must yield to people on foot and give an audible warning before passing.

Kids 5 and up can turn artNEST Boca into an art-studio haunted house on Oct. 31 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. It is a drop-off session, and the young builders work as a team on the design and decorations. Admission comes with two tickets to the finished house. Families can walk through from 1 to 2 p.m., when the house opens to all ages. Each extra ticket costs $5.

Gumbo Limbo Nature Center hosts Halloween by the Sea on Sunday, Oct. 18, with pre-school games and prizes, small-hands crafts and a Halloween treat by the aquariums. Kids can pose for a picture with Luna, the nature center's sea turtle mascot. Choose one session, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. or 5:45 to 6:45 p.m., and register in advance through the city's WebTrac system. It is recommended for ages 2 to 6. Tickets cost $10 per child for residents and $13 for nonresidents; parents and children under 2 get in free. Costumes are welcome, minus weapons or pointy props, and the city asks families to carpool because parking is limited.

The hallway at the Boca Raton Innovation Campus stretches 907 feet, which makes it the longest in the Western Hemisphere. Opened in 1970, the campus spent roughly its first 25 years as IBM's North American R&D headquarters. Architects Marcel Breuer and Robert Gatje gave it the hard concrete angles of Brutalism. In 2023, operating partner CP Group renamed it BRiC. Art now hangs throughout the buildings as part of Art on BRiC Walls, a self-guided tour. Some pieces come from local students, and others are lent by area museums. The goal is to make the campus more than a big business park. Camino Gardens holds its own buried chapter: the neighborhood covers the old Africa USA attraction site, which had disappeared by 1961.