Five years ago, 2019

• Fleming Island High senior Kaitlyn Ludlam won the prestigious Society of Women Engineers award for girls in engineering by focusing on robotics to enhance her STEM programs.

• The threat of tornadoes and Tropical Storm Nestor turn the prospects of a busy Ham Jam at the Clay County Fairground into a financial bust.

• Students Working Against Tobacco expanded to 10 Clay County schools with hopes of stopping pod-based electric vaporizers and traditional cigarettes.

10 years ago, 2014

• An 11-year-old boy was accused of killing animals, including beheading a dog and burying them in shallow graves behind his home in Middleburg.

• School Board members Janice Kerekes, Tina Bullock and Carol Studdard accepted a challenge from the Clay Educational Service Professionals Association to step outside their “comfort zones” and fill in for specific service jobs.

• The Green Cove Springs City Council holds a special section to discuss the “Gateway Corridor” to re-zone and re-configure a sector of the northern strip of the city after major car dealerships moved outside the city limits.

20 years ago, 2004

• A Jacksonville man, Robert Beattie, was charged with four counts of grand theft auto in connection with a statewide series of all-terrain thefts.

• The Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts kicked off its inaugural season with its art gallery with black and white photography portraits displayed by renowned photographer Jack Mitchell.

• Muhammade Rosone Barrett was arrested for armed robbery after holding awoman at gunpoint and demanding she withdraw $500 from her ATM account.

30 years ago, 1994

• Clay County Sheriff’s Office deputy Annie Henderson earned Law Enforcement Officer of the Year by the Florida Law Enforcement Related Education Association for teaching students about the dangers of illegal drugs with the DARE program.

• The Clay County Sheriff’s Office investigated its eighth burglary after a Keystone Heights church lost $400 worth of audio and video equipment in a break-in.

• The Keystone Heights City Council voted to impanel a Charter Review Commission to examine the city’s charter to determine if laws needed updating or discarding.

40 years ago, 1984

• Dalton Bray becomes the police chief at the Orange Park Police Department. He would go on to become the Clay County Sheriff.

• The Hoxie Bros. Great American Combined Circus performed two shows in the Kmart parking lot on Blanding Boulevard in Orange Park.

• Ninety-five Clay County School District administrators add their names to a quarter-page ad in Clay Today endorsing incumbent Democrat Superintendent Jesse P. Tynes Jr.