Five years ago, 2017
• St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, which opened in 1897, was officially recognized by the National Register of Historic Places with a historic marker.
• The Florida Department of Transportation agrees to spend $19 million to make upgrades on the often-clogged section on County Road 220 between Knight Boxx Road and Shamrock Drive.
• Orange Park business owner Scott Fisher is told by the town council he can keep his nine-foot-tall blowup figure of Super Mario in front of Gone Broke Gaming on Kingsley Avenue after both sides agreed to federal mediation.

10 years ago, 2012
• Despite working with a limited budget, the Clay County School Board decides to spend $22 million to fix up 41 of its schools.
• Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler announces Klaybor & Associates will build a memorial honoring fallen law enforcement officers at the Sheriff’s Office in Green Cove Springs.
`• The newly formed Clay County Economic Development Board is created to attract new businesses to the county.

20 years ago, 2002
• Career Counselor 1st Class Glen Stromes of the U.S. Navy is selected as the Military Person of the Year by the Clay County Chamber of Commerce, while Polly Gossin is honored as the Military Spouse of the Year and U.S. Navy Cmdr. James Fossa is selected as the Reservist of the Year.
• Orange Park neurologist Dr. David Frior Scales Jr. was killed in a plain accident.
• Robert Dunlap, 66, receives a special accommodation from Sheriff Scott Lancaster after he came to the aid of an undercover drug deputy.

30 years ago, 1992
• After being forced to close for being insolvent, Gordon Management Company announces it will re-open Clay Memorial Hospital with limited services.
• Clay County Fire-Rescue use the “jaws of life” to free a night watchman after he was pinned between a chain-linked and pipe fence at the Public Works Department.
• Ex-Marine and Orange Park resident Don Jones is honored by the Clay County Commission for providing lifesaving cardiopulmonary resuscitation of county employee Michael Williams, who collapsed while working for the road and bridge crew.

40 years ago, 1982
• A large delegation of Green Cove Springs residents and city officials fill the Northeast Florida Regional Planning Council meeting to oppose any new plans to build more low-income homes in the city.
• Florida Gov. Bob Graham stops at J.P. Hall’s Bayard Ranch for lunch while traveling to the grand opening of EPCOT Center at Walt Disney World.
• Incumbent Frank Williams defeats challenger Lee Drawdy in a run-off for the Florida District 21 House seat.