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Issue #021 · Saturday, October 3, 2026
Morning, Fleming Island 👋
Today's best bet for outdoor plans is the morning. Rain is most likely between 2 and 5.
Also worth knowing: the National Weather Service is flagging localized flooding through the weekend, then a nor'easter and tidal flooding next week. More on that Monday. 🌴
🏈 The Golden Eagles had a bye last night. Clay comes to the island next Friday.
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86° / 74°
HIGH / LOW
TODAY AROUND THE ISLAND
Get outside this morning.
Showers are possible all day, with the best chance between 2 and 5. Watch for patchy fog early. Sunday runs hotter, with a heat index near 101 and storms most likely after 5.
🏈 Friday night
Fleming Island, Clay, Middleburg, and Orange Park all had the week off. Around the county:
Ed White 21, Oakleaf 18
Paxon 31, Ridgeview 0
Crescent City 14, Keystone Heights 0
Next Friday: Clay (4-2) at Fleming Island (3-3). The full scoreboard →
📅 Today
🏷️ Fleming Island Plantation and Margaret's Walk yard sale
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Driveways all over both neighborhoods
Follow the banner at the Fleming Plantation Blvd entrance off SR 17 and the signs at each neighborhood entrance. Bring cash.
🛍️ Fleming Island Saturday Market
9:30 AM to 2:00 PM · Village Square, across from Fleming Island High
The first market since summer break, with free prizes and a bounce house.
🧶 Fall Craft Fair
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Crossroad Lutheran Church, 5101 Lakeshore Dr W
The church's annual craft fair, just off CR 220.
🚜 Dig N Dirt
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM · Clay County Fairgrounds, Green Cove Springs
$15 adults, $7 kids, 3 and under free. Also tomorrow.
🎃 Black Creek Pumpkin Patch
10:00 AM to 8:00 PM · 3925 Main St, Middleburg
$2 train rides.
🌻 Jacksonville Pumpkin Festival
10:00 AM to 9:00 PM · Amazing Grace Family Farms, 4251 SR 21, Green Cove Springs
$17.95 online, $24.95 at the gate. The farm says its dates are weather dependent.
🎶 The 25th Soul Food and Music Festival
Noon to 7:00 PM · Vera Francis Hall Park, Green Cove Springs
The parade steps off at noon.
🎭 Beetlejuice Jr.
2:00 and 7:30 PM · The Island Theater, 1860 Town Hall Circle #54
Fleming Island High's drama troupe, $10 plus a small fee. Last two shows.
Sunday, October 4
🚜 Dig N Dirt, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Clay County Fairgrounds
🥬 Orange Park Farmers' and Arts Market, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Town Hall Park
🎃 Black Creek Pumpkin Patch, 12:30 to 8:00 PM
🏈 Jaguars at Cincinnati, 1:00 PM on CBS47
🎸 Live music
🎣 Whitey's Fish Camp · 2032 CR 220
Today: Loopmandan at noon, Jeremy Morrison at 4:00, Boogie Freaks at 8:00
Sunday: Travis Hardin, 2:00 to 6:00
🎤 Encore · 2015 CR 220
Today: DRIVEN, 8:00 PM
Sunday: Darrell Rae, 4:00 PM
🍀 Hibernia Pub · 2260 Town Center Blvd
Live music tonight, 6:00 to 9:00 PM
🕰️ A bit of island history
Margaret's Walk is named for a woman who saved her family's plantation by turning it into an inn.
Margaret Seton Fleming married Lewis Fleming in 1837, and they raised seven children here.
Then the Civil War nearly took everything. Her oldest son, Seton, was killed at Cold Harbor in 1864, and the plantation house came through the war damaged.
The plaque in Margaret's Walk Park calls her "a heroine in her own time." It credits her determination with saving the plantation by establishing The Hibernia Inn.
The plaque also credits her with founding the historic St. Margaret's Episcopal Church on Fleming Island.
And one of her sons, Francis P. Fleming, went on to become Florida's 15th governor in 1889.
The statue in the park shows a young woman in mid-1800s dress, a nod to the family walking the old buggy path under the oaks to the community dock, where they picked up supplies from the river boats on the St. Johns.
If you're driving through Margaret's Walk for the yard sale this morning, now you know whose name is on the sign.
From the plaque at Margaret's Walk Park and the Fleming family papers at UNF.
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 your Saturday,
Shelly 🌴
Find Good. Share Good. Celebrate Good.