Five years ago, 2020 • Lake Asbury Junior High’s Taylor Thigpen earns the NASA Earth System Science Project Award and finishes second in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Group B at the 2020 …
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Five years ago, 2020
• Lake Asbury Junior High’s Taylor Thigpen earns the NASA Earth System Science Project Award and finishes second in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Group B at the 2020 Clay Rotary Science and Engineering Fair.
• The Green Cove Springs City Council votes to charge a $125 stormwater fee for each single-family home.
• Friends of Augusta Savage opens a clothes closet at Charles E. Bennett Elementary in Green Cove Springs.
10 years ago, 2015
• The Orange Park Town Council denies councilwoman Phyliss Vancas’ $500 request for a trip to Washington, D.C., to lobby for funds.
• Amanda Mane Moon, 25, was arrested and charged with embezzling $40,18 from the Board of County Commissioners while she served as the interim coordinator for the State Housing Initiative Partnership.
• The Board of County Commissioners reversed course and voted 4-1 against spending $10 million in unused bond money on a mega-sports complex.
20 years ago, 2005
• Clay County Fire Rescue workers showed local students how to flow water in the event of a house fire during the annual career shadowing program.
• The Clay County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Vero Beach man for impersonating a law enforcement officer. Scott E. Davis was charged with pulling a man over on State Road 16 near Camp Blanding while driving a vehicle equipped with replica police lights and wearing police gear.
30 years ago, 1995
• The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office arrested three men – Joseph M. Harding and Phillip A. Swain of Jacksonville and Samuel L. Walker of Orange Park – for the murder of Michael Renardo Clements of Orange Park. The three were accused of killing Clements and dumping his body on Kilcullen Lane in Jacksonville.
• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it would test milk produced by Green Cove Springs-based Gustafson’s Farm for allegations of dioxin contamination.
40 years ago, 1985
• The Green Cove Springs City Council appointed residents to a new Code Enforcement Board to seek and cite residents and businesses to break specific city codes.
• The BCC passed an ordinance prohibiting adults from hosting house parties where alcohol or drugs would be served to minors.
