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Issue #013 · Saturday, September 19, 2026
Morning, Fleming Island 👋
Ponte Vedra came to Fleming Island last night and took it, 31-18.
Today is the pick of the weekend. Tomorrow is hot, near 90 and feeling closer to 100, so take water if you're out in the afternoon. 🌴
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90° / 73°
HIGH / LOW
TODAY AROUND THE ISLAND
Mostly sunny, with barely a drop of rain.
A ten percent chance all day, a light northeast breeze, and 73 and clear tonight. Hard to ask for much better than that.
🏈 Friday night
Ponte Vedra 31, Fleming Island 18. The Sharks came to Fleming Island on Friday night and went home with it.
The weather held up its end, at least. Clear, 73, and the wind that pushed us around all week finally dropped off after dark.
Next up: Orange Park, Friday the 25th.
Around the county
Middleburg 20, Newberry 17, in overtime.
Clay 42, Fernandina Beach 14.
Orange Park 28, Terry Parker 14.
Keystone Heights 16, Bell 13.
Bolles 42, Oakleaf 24.
Ribault 18, Ridgeview 10.
🎸 Live music today and tomorrow
Whitey's Fish Camp, 2032 CR 220
Today Vibe 4 to 8, then Area 51 8 to midnight
Tomorrow Chris Kellum, 2 to 6
Encore, 2015 CR 220, 21 and over
Today Backlash, 8
Tomorrow Chilly Rhino, 4
Hibernia Pub, 2260 Town Center Blvd
Today live music, 6 to 9. Their own page has it every Friday and Saturday.
Sunset Tiki Bar at Dr's Lake Marina has Jim Murdock and Matthew Bevis from 5:00, with food from Pollera's.
📅 Today and tomorrow
Saturday, September 19
✈️ Airplane Adventures
10:00 AM–12:00 PM · Sleepy Hollow Park, 319 Sleepy Hollow Rd, Middleburg
Model airplane demonstrations, rocket launches, and airplane crafts, run by Clay County Parks and Rec.
🏊 Spring Park City Pool, Green Cove Springs
11:00 AM–7:00 PM · $5 adults, $3 kids and seniors · cash only
⛵ Admirals Fleet Mixer
From 5:00 PM · Sunset Tiki Bar, Dr's Lake Marina, 3108 US Hwy 17
Sunday, September 20
🎭 Blithe Spirit
2:00 PM · The Island Theater, 1860 Town Hall Circle #54 · $18, students $10
🏊 Spring Park City Pool · 11:00 AM–7:00 PM · Green Cove Springs
🎭 One more good thing: there's a theater on this island
Fleming Island has its own theater. It's across the street from FIHS, and last night it opened a production of Blithe Spirit.
It's on Town Hall Circle, and it's a nonprofit community theater focused on teaching. They also help kids attend workshops tuition-free.
Four performances remain, and the next is tomorrow afternoon.
Blithe Spirit · The Island Theater · 1860 Town Hall Circle #54
Tomorrow, 2:00 PM, then Friday the 25th and Saturday the 26th at 7:30, and Sunday the 27th at 2:00.
$18 adults, $10 students with ID at the door. General admission; doors open 30 minutes before.
It's indoors and air-conditioned, and tomorrow afternoon is going to feel like 100 degrees. Sounds like a fun way to spend a hot Sunday.
And if there's something else going on around here I should know about, tell me. That's genuinely what the button below is for.
🕰️ A bit of island history
There has been a movie theater on Walnut Street since 1937.
The Clay Theatre opened in Green Cove Springs when the town still called itself the original fountain of youth. People came for the springs, and a town with tourists needed a cinema.
By the 1940s, the crowd was sailors. In the theatre's own words, it "drew in sailors from the nearby Naval Air Station, creating a vibrant scene on Friday nights with taxi cabs and white-uniformed sailors lining the streets."
It did well enough that a second cinema, the Cove, went up right next door. When the current owners opened the old safe, they found vintage ads selling "The Cove and Clay" together.
It ran as a cinema until 2014. The last film ever shown there was Monuments Men.
A pair of newlyweds found it vacant in 2017, spent a year restoring it, and reopened it in April 2019. It's now a wedding and events venue, so there's nothing to buy a ticket to. But the marquee is still up, and most of us have only ever seen it from the road.
Got a piece of island history we should run? Send it over.
Before you go... tell me something good 💛
See a new business opening? Know of an event we should add to the calendar? Got a neighbor doing something wonderful, a local team having a big season, or just something good happening around Fleming Island?
Send it our way. This only gets better when all of us help find the good stuff.
❤️ Tell Us Something Good: A neighbor doing something kind. A kid doing something awesome. Something new going in or on around town. Anything that makes you think, "people around here should know about this."
📅 Submit an Event: Live music at a local restaurant, a fundraiser, a festival, a market, a school activity. Anything locals can put on their calendar.
⭐ Get Featured: Own a local business? Tell us your story through a short interview and give the community a chance to meet the people behind it.
Enjoy the rest of it,
Shelly 🌴
Find Good. Share Good. Celebrate Good.