This Week in History 7/16/20
Five years ago, 2015• Juvenile offenders are offered a program that will result in civil citations instead of criminal for many crimes as a way to overcoming youthful indiscretions.• The …
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This Week in History 7/16/20
Five years ago, 2015
• Juvenile offenders are offered a program that will result in civil citations instead of criminal for many crimes as a way to overcoming youthful indiscretions.
• The first CalaVida Arts Festival is approved for Labor Day weekend in Green Cove Springs.
• Hope Therapy in Middleburg helps people with debilitating illnesses with hippotherapy, where patients ride horses as part of their physical therapy.
10 years ago, 2010
• March Milot of Fleming Island teams with songwriter/producer Billy Hume to create a rock music tory video on six paranormal books written by Jacksonville’s Alyssa Day.
• Middleburg quarterback Austin Sweatt announces he will play for Clay High after his family moved to Green Cove Springs during the offseason.
• Clay County Sheriff’s office’s Mary Justino is selected as the State’s Public Information Officer of the Year.
20 years ago, 2000
• A 1½ year-old bear was rescued from an Orange Park neighborhood and relocated to Camp Blanding.
• A grant from the Melissa Gates Foundation allows the Middleburg-Clay Hill Library to offer new children’s computer programs.
• Twelve people are arrested in Green Cove Springs for crack cocaine during a “reverse” drug sting where law enforcement acts as the seller.
30 years ago, 1990
• Mackie Christenson, a Republican candidate for the District 2 seat on the County Council, is the first politician to qualify to be on the November ballot.
• Sheriff Dalton Bray defended his $1.8 million budget increase to the BCC by saying the county doesn’t have enough deputies.
• Deputies recover $20,000 worth of stolen property and arrest two Keystone Heights men who are suspected of committing 75% of the town’s burglaries.
40 years ago, 1980
• Civil Defense Director Charles McGuckin resigns.
• The Green Cove Springs chapter of the American Business Women plan to sponsor an Old Fashioned Political Rally at the Clay County Fairgrounds.
• The BCC approves modifications to the Villages of Argyle that won’t constitute a change in the Development of Regional Impact of 1975.
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