🌱 Family Storytime: Holidays In-Person and 11 more events

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Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Showers around in the p.m., with a high of 77 and low of 65 degrees.
• Friday: Decreasing clouds, temps: high: 75, low: 38.
• Saturday: Plenty of sunshine, with a high of 69 and low of 42 degrees.

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday December 18

• Family Storytime: Holidays In-Person
  Orange Park Library , Orange Park - Meeting Room A , Orange Park
  10:30 am
• Preschool Storytime: Christmas In-Person
  Green Cove Springs Library , Green Cove Springs - Children's Department , Green Cove Springs
  10:30 am
• Toddler Storytime: Elves In-Person
  Fleming Island Library , Fleming Island - Teen Zone , Fleming Island
  10:30 am
• Teen Sock Snowmen In-Person
  Keystone Heights Library , Keystone Heights - General , Keystone Heights
  2:30 pm
• Food for Clay Distribution Event-Green Cove Springs Senior Center
  604 Walnut St , Green Cove Springs
  3:00 pm
• Teen Craft Day: Snowglobes In-Person
  Middleburg-Clay Hill Library , Middleburg-Clay Hill - Meeting Room , Middleburg-Clay Hill
  4:00 pm
• LEGO® at the Library: Winter Villages In-Person
  Orange Park Library , Orange Park - Meeting Room A , Orange Park
  4:00 pm
• Holiday Gift Wrapping In-Person
  Green Cove Springs Library , Teen Gaming Center - Green Cove Springs , Green Cove Springs
  4:00 pm
• Books & Brunch
  456 W Pratt St , Starke
  4:30 pm
• 3D Paper Globe Ornaments In-Person
  Keystone Heights Library , Keystone Heights - General , Keystone Heights
  6:00 pm
• VOLT ~ Voices of Library Teens
  456 W Pratt St , Starke
  9:00 pm

Friday December 19

• Green Cove Springs Police Department Shop with a Cop
  Green Cove Springs, FL Calendar Green Cove Springs, FL 32043

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Kellen lives just down the road and helped us with a gas cooktop that would click forever without lighting he pulled the top apart, cleared a clogged burner head, repositioned the igniter, and now it catches on the first try instead of filling the
  kitchen with that faint gas smell we were worried about. (Nextdoor Blanding Blvd)
• Please share & repost to help reunite this lost dog!
  Tillie was LOST on November 20, 2025 in Orange Park, FL 32065 near Camp Francis Johnson Sharing for a neighbor. For the latest information or to… (Nextdoor Greenwood)

• Tractor Supply posted a job opening for Team Member, Petsense in Middleburg. Apply here.
• Tractor Supply Company posted a job opening for Team Member in Middleburg. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Middleburg here.

🗞 Nearby News

Fleming Island

• Chase Hughes named to U.S. National Junior Team (golfoklahoma.org)

Green Cove Springs

• Jacksonville Bold for 12.17.25: Nixon's next move (floridapolitics.com)
• See Times-Union photographer Doug Engle's favorite pictures of 2025 (jacksonville.com)

Orange Park

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