Here's your local news at a glance for Monday, the 2nd of November.
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🏘️ Community
Habitat for Humanity held its 40th Anniversary Dream Builders' Ball on Oct.
9 at The Breakers and raised $1.2 million for local affordable housing. Habitat has built 452 homes and repaired 834, helping 1,286 families, and the new funds will support more local homeownership.
🌲 Environment
UF researchers are considering promoting the invasive Asian swamp eel as a food source and may publish a tip sheet on how to catch and cook it (desliming required); the eel has been found in the Loxahatchee Refuge west of Boynton Beach and threatens local wetlands.
Heavy flash flooding dropped up to a foot of rain in Palm Beach and Okeechobee counties on Sunday, prompting an Okeechobee shelter and road closures at SR 70, US 441 and Haverhill/Okeechobee, and a Flash Flood Watch remains in effect through tonight so motorists should avoid flooded routes.
🏛️ Government
Florida's 2026 campaign season included local visits to Boynton Beach, where Angie Nixon and Jose Javier Rodriguez spoke at St. John Missionary Baptist Church on Sept.
28 as candidates campaigned ahead of the midterm election.
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