Five years ago, 2019

• The Clay County School Board tells the Florida Legislature to drop its Best and Bright program and reallocate the money on instructional personnel salaries.

• The Town of Orange Park targets the Bellair neighborhood along Gano Avenue, Clinton Drive, Stowe Avenue, and Dudley Branch and Johnson Slough to prevent stormwater damage.

• Ralph Roland averaged.; 37 calls a day from people looking to find a home for an elderly dog at his Roland Senior Dog Rescue Gang in Melrose.

10 years ago, 2014

• It took a jury five hours to convict Ryan Christopher Wilder of Middleburg for the murders of Clay County Sheriff’s Office Det. Adam White and methamphetamine cook Ted Arthur Tilley during a drug raid.

• Clay County voters rejected a proposal, 40,064-24,977, requiring the Superintendent’s position to be appointed, not elected.

• The Town of Orange Park Council voted to spend $150,000 on infrastructure projects, including improvements to water utilities, drainage and roads on Gabriel Drive and Chamblis Court West.

20 years ago, 2004

• Holocaust survivor Bob Fischer speaks at Oakleaf High. He told students he was taken captive by the Nazis in Czechoslovakia when he was 7, and he survived by having a job as a tap dancer and a piano player entertaining the German troops.

• The Town of Orange Park creates a five-person Nuisance Abatement Board to address businesses where crimes are frequently reported.

• For the first time, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office receives the “Excelsior Level” reaccreditation award from the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation.

30 years ago, 1994

• Pastor Rod Whited was presented a plaque by the congregation of the Pinewood Presbyterian Church in recognition of Clergy Appreciation Day.

• Christopher Eugene Hutchinson, 21, of Orange Park, and Ronald Joseph Hornbuck, 18, of Middleburg, were arrested in Louisiana in connection with two break-ins at Middleburg High.

• The Clay County Department of Health issued a quarantine for a 2.25-square-mile area in Middleburg after it found a rabid cat.

40 years ago, 1984

• The Orange Park High marching band won first place at the Spirt of the South competition in Tifton, Georgia, which featured 30 of the top bands from Florida, Georgia and Alabama.

• The Middleburg High football team wins its first district championship with a 14-7 victory against Palatka.

• Keystone Heights’ 14-7 win at Clay High puts the 8-AA standings in a three-way tie between Keystone, Clay and Bradford County.