Five years ago, 2019

• Clay County residents fill sandbags and gas tanks and stock up on groceries in preparation for a possible hit by Hurricane Dorian.

• The Clay County District Schools Police Department report for their first day of school since being formed by the school board months earlier.

• County officials propose to move 911 dispatch from the sheriff’s office and consolidate them with Clay County Fire Rescue at the Emergency Operations Center at the Clay County Fairgrounds.

10 years ago, 2014

• The Clay County School Board, its teachers’ union and the Clay County Education Association are engaged in a lawsuit about public records the district has yet to produce.

• Six Clay County elementary schools participate in a pilot collective classroom program encouraging students to help each other.

• St. Johns Housing Partnership and Clay County Habitat for Humanity team to rebuild the dilapidated home for Vietnam veteran and three-time Purple Heart recipient Joe Gainers.

20 years ago, 2004

• Clay County Emergency Management officials were monitoring the progress of Hurricane Frances as it approached the east coast of Florida. It was forecasted to make landfall in Northeast Florida.

• One of three men who burst into a home was shot to death by a man who was playing a card game with friends. Obryan Crawford, 20, was killed, while Marcus D. Crawford and James E. Whitfield were arrested were arrested a week later on unrelated charges.

• Mark Thompson of Middleburg was arrested following a two-year investigation by the Clay County Sheriff’s Office into a series of ATV thefts.

30 years ago, 1994

• The Clay County School District overpaid $1.6 million in insurance premiums to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and plans to issue refund checks to plan members.

• The Board of County Commissioners fire assistant county attorney Fran Moss.

• Wilkinson Junior High unveiled a new 32,000-square-foot building for high-tech science, demonstration and art classrooms and a suite of rooms for Exceptional Student Education Programs.

40 years ago, 1984

• The Clay County Sheriff’s Office and Florida Highway Patrol were on the lookout for Billy Ray Brown of Jacksonville. He was accused of DUI, stealing a car, crashing into a retention pond and leaving the scene of an accident on Bolton Road.

• Two Clay County candidates ask the Florida Secretary of State to send officials to monitor polling precincts during the election.

• The Florida Department of Transportation said it will complete Blanding Boulevard’s 2.7-mile, $3.7 million widening project in December.