5 years ago, 2013
Former state senator and education commissioner Jim Horne of Fleming Island attended a meeting of the Clay County School Board where he admonished the board as being dysfunctional due to recent infighting.

FFA member William Donaghy of Middleburg brought home the bronze award in the FFA’s National Creed recitation contest at the organization’s national convention held in Louisville, Ky.

With the goal of reducing the cost of conducting municipal elections, Clay County Supervisor of Elections Chris Chambless held a meeting with leaders from Keystone Heights, Green Cove Springs and Orange Town to go over his proposed idea of a Super Tuesday Municipal Election in Clay County.

10 years ago, 2008
The Council on Aging of Clay County welcomed Al Rizer as its new executive director.

Circuit Court Judge William A. Wilkes administered the oath of office to Travis Cummings, Ronnie Robinson and Wendell Davis so they could take their new seats on the Clay Board of County Commissioners.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office investigated the theft of a section of a 350-pound solid black granite bench from the Fleming Island Veterans Memorial on Town Center Parkway on Fleming Island.

20 years ago, 1998
About 1,000 attendees turned out at the Clay High cafetorium to attend the funeral for David Lee “Bumbo” Evans Jr. and John Tito Smith who were killed in an auto accident along with Cameron Sharone Hines and George G. Battle Jr. at the intersection of State Roads 21 and 16 in Clay County.

Green Cove Springs Police Chief Gail Russell commended four members of the police force who disregarded their own safety to enter a home at 439 S. Vermont St. to rescue two occupants who were deemed “close to death” from carbon monoxide gas due to a portable gasoline generator left running inside the home.

Motorcycle officer, Clay County Sheriff’s Deputy Doug Brace, was airlifted to University Hospital in Jacksonville where he had surgery for multiple fractures he received while responding to a robbery at Mr. Sun’s Restaurant at 189 Blanding Blvd.

30 Years ago, 1988
Attendees in a standing-room only room meeting in Keystone Heights heard Florida Department of Transportation officials explain that the deadline had been extended for a Tampa to Jacksonville Toll Road that would cut through the McRae area.

Clay County Administrator Robert Taylor said the attorneys representing Clay Utility Company who said they want to cancel the sale of the water and sewer company’s assets.

In Keystone Heights, voters would go to the polls to choose between incumbent City Council Member Susan Fraser and former City Council Member Louise Bates.

40 years ago, 1978
The Blanding Business Council of the Clay County Chamber of Commerce kicked off the Christmas season with its annual Christmas Parade down Blanding Boulevard complete with floats and marching bands.

Green Cove Springs Police arrested two juveniles for shooting a Seaboard Coastline train passenger between the eyes with a BB gun as it passed through town. H. Bagwell of Sanford, Fla. called police and described the kids, who were arrested within minutes. Bagwell had the BB removed “further down state.”

Joe Bushel of Aquarius Road near Orange Park was named Emergency Coordinator for the Amateur Radio Emergency Corps, in a press release from the American Radio Relay League, an organization made up of ham radio operators.