Five years ago, 2020

• Orange Park Junior High Assistant Principal Janice Tucker is honored as Woman Educator of the Year by Delta Kappa Gamma.

• Eileen Eister retires as a crossing guard after helping children for the Clay County Sheriff’s Office at Argyle Elementary and Lakeside Junior High for 30 years.

• The county commission learns CARES Act money can’t be used to help the Clay County Health Department.

10 years ago, 2015

• Deputies with the Clay County Sheriff’s Office become certified in Mental Health First Aid, a program that teaches skills to better identify mental illness and substance abuse.

• The Amazing Grace Crop Maze on Wisteria Farms Road in Lake Asbury carves this year’s puzzle to honor Clay High Alumnus and Seattle Seahawks defensive end Cliff Avril.

• Clay County commissioners say they will search for ways to pay and upgrade libraries to bring them up to date with Wi-Fi coverage and self-service printing.

20 Years Ago, 2005

• Officers with the Orange Park Police Department arrest Jesse Elijah Brooks, 25, for allegedly mooning passersby in the 700 block of Park Avenue.

• Orange Park Medical Center reopens its $35 million Outpatient Endoscopy Center at 1883 Kingsley Ave.

• Clay Transit braces for a $5 million cut in state funds in the wake of state budget cuts for its program that transports the sick and elderly to doctor’s appointments.

30 Years Ago, 1995

• Nick Chapman, administrator at the Clay County Health Department, says Clay County will receive $73,000 in Ryan White Care Act funds to serve patients with HIV and AIDS.

• Mary Ann Chism, 33, is sentenced to seven years in prison and five years of probation for killing her husband on a charge of manslaughter with a firearm.

• Susan Fraser, head of Clay County’s Planning Department, says studies showed the county could be subject to a moratorium on new development by 1997 if something is not done to build new roads to alleviate traffic problems.

40 Years Ago, 1985

• Green Cove Springs City Council drops a proposal to contract with the Clay County Sheriff’s Office for city law enforcement needs after Sheriff Jennings Murrhee withdrew the proposal, citing a split in council support.

•Developer Larry Nichols’ proposal to rezone 230 acres adjacent to the Foxridge community draws a packed room of opponents at the Planning Commission.

• A mobile lab from the Environmental Protection Agency sets up shop in Orange Park to test for contamination at the town’s public works complex.