🌱 What Cape Canaveral’s $4M deficit means for your taxes and services

Cheers Cape Canaveral! We're back, helping you stay up to date with what's happening. Let's take on the day together! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

• What Cape Canaveral's $4M deficit means for your taxes and services
• Need a permit before rolling out fake grass in Cape Canaveral?

Also on today's calendar: OMGITSWICKS & friends at Gregory's Comedy Club and 3 more events.

Today's riddle: When geese fly, one side is longer than the other. do you know why that is ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: A stray afternoon t-storm, with a high of 89 and low of 78 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Friday: Humid with a thunderstorm, temps: high: 88, low: 76.
• Saturday: Humid; a stray p.m. t-storm, with a high of 88 and low of 76 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Cape Canaveral council rejects tax hike despite $4M budget deficit (clickorlando.com) — Cape Canaveral's city council has refused to raise the property tax rate despite a projected $4 million budget deficit and warnings from the city manager that services will be cut. Leaders now plan spending reductions and possible asset sales, while the Brevard County Sheriff's Office investigates the city's financial management and a statewide tax amendment looms in November.
   

• Cape Canaveral adds permit rules for fake grass (floridatoday.com) — Cape Canaveral homeowners with lots of one acre or less now must get a city permit before installing artificial turf, after the council approved new rules to oversee drainage and environmental impacts. The move responds to a 2025 state law limiting local turf bans, giving Cape Canaveral at least some control over how synthetic lawns are installed in the city.
   

📸 Around Cape Canaveral

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Cape Canaveral

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday September 26
• 2026 Mayors Masquerade Ball →
  Radisson Resort at the Port, 8701 Astronaut Blvd, Cape Canaveral
  6:00 pm

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Other local events

Saturday September 19
• Sunshine State Sunset 5K Fun Run/Walk →
  Cape Canaveral FL
Tuesday October 6
• Space Week – America's Launchpad to Tomorrow →
  Sands Space History Center, 100 Spaceport Way Building 90328, Cape Canaveral
  6:00 pm
• Space Week - America's Launchpad to Tomorrow →
  Sands Space History Center, 100 Spaceport Way Building 90328, Cape Canaveral
  7:00 pm
Saturday October 10
• OMGITSWICKS & friends at Gregory's Comedy Club →
  Gregory's Upstairs Comedy Club, 900 N Atlantic Ave, Cocoa Beach
  8:30 pm
Friday October 16
• Jack Connor: Innuendo @ Ellie Mae's Tiki Bar →
  Ellie Mae's Tiki Bar, 116 Jackson Ave, Cape Canaveral
  7:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday September 17
• Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) Meeting →
  Cocoa Beach FL
  5:45 pm
• Kevin Ebright →
  Cocoa Beach FL
  6:00 pm
• City Commission Meeting →
  City Hall, 2 S Orlando Ave, Cocoa Beach
  6:00 pm
Friday September 18
• Steel Magonlias →
  301 Ramp Road, Cocoa Beach
  8:00 pm
Saturday September 19
• Hunker Down Lounge →
  Hunker Down Lounge, 7 South Atlantic Avenue, Cocoa Beach
  7:00 pm
Monday September 21
• History Lecture: "The Amazing Airlift: How Harry Truman Saved West Berlin" Presented by Professor Yanek Mieczkowski →
  Cocoa Beach Public Library, 550 North Brevard Ave, Cocoa Beach
  3:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• SpaceX - Space Exploration Technologies Corporation posted a job opening for Production Coordinator in Cape Canaveral. Apply here.
• Heidelberg Materials posted a job opening for 007445-Utility Person in Cape Canaveral. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Cape Canaveral here.

🗞 Nearby News

Cocoa Beach

• SCAT bus routes in Cocoa Beach preserved thanks to new plan with FDOT (mynews13.com)
• Waterfront restaurant takes 'rest of the fall season off' in Cocoa Beach (floridatoday.com)
• These are the best things to do in Brevard this weekend, Sept. 18-24 (floridatoday.com)

Merritt Island

• FLORIDA TODAY Week 5 Super 10 football rankings (floridatoday.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: because there are more geese on that side (Thank you jo L. for sending it in!)
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