Five years ago, 2015

• Orange Park’s Todd Emerick is honored with the Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award.

• AMIkids, a program for troubled boys, announces it will expand to Clay County.

• Pasha and Yura, a park of 15-year-old orphans from Ukraine, spend the summer in Clay County has guests of Andre and Juliet Van Heerden and a nonprofit organization that rescues orphans from Ukraine and Latvia.

10 years ago, 2010

• An estimated 8,000 people attend the Green Cove Springs Lion’s Club July in Spring Park celebration.

• St. Johns River Community College is given approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to offer bachelor’s degrees in early childhood education and organizational management.

• Johnny Mike Maher, 52, of Green Cove Springs, is arrested for passing counterfeit bills at several area businesses.

20 years ago, 2000

• Ten Clay County schools earn higher grades from the Florida Department of Education’s School Accountability Report, including Doctors Inlet Elementary that jumped from a “D” in 1999 to an “A.”

• Clay Hill Elementary principal Lenore Paulk said when students return for the new year, those who scored a 4 or 5 on the Math and Reading sections of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test will be given a party, while he plans to shuttled 37 students to lunch at Golden Corral in limousines who scored 4 or higher on the Writing section.

• The Orange Park Athletic Association 12 and under baseball team wins the Cal Ripken District 2 tournament and will play in the state tournament in West Palm Beach.

30 years ago, 1990

• More than 100 parents tell the Clay County School Board they oppose a plan that will require about 1,200 students to walk to school. The move was done to address budget cuts.

• Roy Andrew Johnson of Orange Park is sentenced to 10 years after he stabbed his wife 43 times during a domestic dispute. The wife survived.

• The Green Cove Springs City Council votes 3-1 to deny a request to increase late fees for delinquent business utilities.

40 years ago, 1980

• William R. Snow is selected as Green Cove Springs’ new city manager by the City Council.

• The Clay County School board approves a plan to build a new elementary and middle school on County Road 218 near Middleburg.

• Mediplex will build a new nursing home in Green Cove Springs on property west of Clay Memorial Hospital.