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This week in history 5/24/18

Clay Today
Posted 5/23/18

5 years ago, 2013 Green Cove Springs City Council voted 5-0 to award a $3.9 million contract to Batson-Cook Inc. of Jacksonville to build its new police station, and cut the project by some 30 …

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This week in history 5/24/18


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5 years ago, 2013
Green Cove Springs City Council voted 5-0 to award a $3.9 million contract to Batson-Cook Inc. of Jacksonville to build its new police station, and cut the project by some 30 percent saving taxpayers $1.7 million.

Orange Park attorney David King received the 2013 Hon. Lamar Winegeart Jr. Pro Bono Service Award during the Clay County Bar Association’s annual Law Day luncheon.

Joseph A. Richmond, 21, of Green Cove Springs, won the $1 million prize in the 50X The Cash Scratch-off game. Richmond, who bought the ticket from the Hess store at 1545 Blanding Blvd. in Middleburg, opted for a one-time lump sum payment of $800,000.

10 years ago, 2008
The state cut an estimated $46 million from the Clay County School District budget, at the same time, the district pondered building Oakleaf High, which had an estimated cost of $50 million.

Food-gleaning nonprofit Waste Not Want Not won the $10,000 Paul E. Reinhold Community Service Award for its work rescuing food for other nonprofits that help the needy.

Justin Dean, J.T. Harrison, Paul Garrison and Evan Green, students at Middleburg High, rode their horses to school to protest the escalating price of gasoline. Horses were “parked” in the school’s barn for the day.

20 years ago, 1998
In what was described as the 11th hour, the Charter Review Commission scheduled three public hearings to get input on a proposal to separate the duties of County Comptroller from the Clerk of Court in the wake of the John Keene financial scandal. The proposal called for establishing a county auditor position.

Green Cove Springs City Manager Eric Meserve and Louis LaRue of LaRue House Movers got into a public row at a council meeting over a $9,288 bill that city gave the company for damages involved in moving a home through the city.

Emily Trznadel of Orange Park was one of the Top 10 finalists for National Woman of the Year by the American Business Women’s Association.

30 years ago, 1988
Sheriff Jennings Murrhee escorted Anthony Defranco and Todd Ladin, 25, of Orange Park, to a patrol car after their arrests for allegedly running a statewide prostitution ring from Orange Park.

Lake Asbury residents applauded a new county program that would allow residents to share the costs of paving neighborhood streets in order to speed up their time to paving.

Orange Park Town Council granted Police Chief Dalton Bray a leave of absence to run for Sheriff of Clay County.

40 years ago, 1978
Sheriff Jennings Murrhee recommended to the county commission they award a $219,035 bid to Abney Construction Co. to expand the Clay County Jail.

The Board of County Commissioners authorized the acceptance of the county’s new agricultural center despite a few unfinished items still unfinished. The move paved the way for Extension Director Jesse Godbold to move his staff into the center.

County Attorney William Wilkes recommended the county commission cease from issuing any new permits to the developers of Heritage Farms in Doctors Inlet until the contractor could fix a drainage problem that leads to massive street flooding during heavy rains.