Find Good. Share Good. Celebrate Good.
Issue #017 · Saturday, September 26, 2026
Morning, Fleming Island 👋
Fleming Island won at Orange Park last night, 49-24.
Everything we pointed you at on Friday is happening today, and the forecast held. 🌴
☀️
81° / 58°
HIGH / LOW
TODAY AROUND THE ISLAND
Patchy fog early, then sunny all day.
The fog should be gone by 9. Basically no rain, a north wind around 8, and it drops to 58 after dark. Tomorrow climbs to 87.
🏈 Friday night
Fleming Island 49, Orange Park 24. The Golden Eagles went on the road and scored 49. They are 3-3 on the season, but 2-0 in district play, and that is the record that matters for the postseason. It puts them second in 4A District 4, behind a St. Augustine team that has not lost all year.
Around the county
Middleburg 42, Ridgeview 8
Oakleaf 56, West Port 6
Atlantic 41, Keystone Heights 6
🚧 One more good thing: the 220 bridge is open
The County Road 220 bridge replacement and four-lane widening is finished. It opened to traffic yesterday.
The county announced it Friday morning and says the job finished ahead of schedule with no workplace accidents. When Phase 2 started in January 2025, the county said it would take about 16 months. It took 20. 🤔
Phase one started in December 2024 and included the intersection work at Rideout Ferry Road. Phase two started in January 2025, and that is the part most people mean when they say the bridge: a new four-lane span over Little Black Creek, replacing one built in 1947.
It made it 79 years.
Their line is that the work will "support better traffic flow and enhance connectivity along the corridor," which is a very county way of saying it is finally done.
📅 Today
Here's your Saturday.
🛍 End of Summer Market
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM · Black Creek Marketplace, 3031 Eagle Pass Pt, Green Cove Springs
Arts, crafts, food, and entertainment. It runs on the last Saturday of every month.
⛺ Fleming Island Vendor Village
11:00 AM to 2:00 PM · On the green in front of the Village Square shops, across Village Square Parkway from Baptist Clay
Outdoors on the grass, which is the whole point on a day like this one.
🔨 Blacksmith demonstration
1:00 to 4:00 PM · Fleming Island Library, outdoors
Jacob Underhill of Underhill's Forge will be there for three hours; drop in anytime. He forges things out of railroad spikes. All ages.
🎵 Concert on the Green
6:00 to 9:00 PM · The FIP Gazebo, 2327 Market Drive
North of 40 Band and food trucks. In their words, "bring your trusty lawn chair or blanket for seating."
🎤 Crack Up Comedy Night
7:00 PM, doors at 6:00 · Spotlight Events Center, 1809 East-West Parkway
Eric Erlacher, Alex Fitzjohn, Alex Sanders, and Eugene Singleton. Your ticket includes beer, wine, soda, and snacks.
🎭 Blithe Spirit · 7:30 PM · The Island Theater, 1860 Town Hall Circle #54
The only real decision comes after six. Concert on the Green is outdoors and free, Crack Up Comedy is indoors with a ticket, and Blithe Spirit starts at 7:30.
Sunday, September 27
🏊 Green Cove Springs City Pool, last day of the season
11:00 AM to 7:00 PM · 229 Walnut Street
Cash only. $5 for adults, $3 for active military and seniors 65 and over, $3 for children 2 to 17, and under 2 is free. The whole pool area holds 75 people, so go early. The splash pad next door is open daily, 11 AM to 8 PM, and it is free.
🏈 Patriots at Jaguars · 1:00 PM on CBS · A home game, and they are wearing the Prowler throwbacks for the first time this season.
🎭 Blithe Spirit · 2:00 PM · Last performance of the run.
🎸 Live music today and tomorrow
Whitey's Fish Camp, 2032 CR 220
Today: Joe Dowling noon · Mike Cook 4 · Pink Paisley 8
Sunday: LoopManDan 2 to 6
Encore, 2015 CR 220, 21 and over
Today: 3 & 1 Band, 8
Sunday: Soulful Sarah, 4
Hibernia Pub, 2260 Town Center Blvd
Today: Live music, 6 to 9 PM
🕰️ A bit of island history
The Spanish called Black Creek the White River.
Rio Blanco, on their maps. The Seminoles called it Wealuste. The name depended on who was doing the naming.
It was a working waterway long before it was scenery. The creek system reaches far into the county, and Fort Heileman used it to float hundreds of shipments of supplies to its storage buildings.
Middleburg sits at the fork of the north and south prongs. It has been called Garey's Ferry, Fort Heileman, and Whitesville, which makes the creek the most stable name in that whole neighborhood.
Even that is generous. An old Florida road map printed it as Buck Creek, which was simply wrong.
And the bridge that opened this week crosses Little Black Creek, which feeds it.
From the Clay County Clerk of Court's historical archives. 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.