Five years ago, 2018
• U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho and county officials ask for a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic to be built in Clay.
• A contractor’s widow, Christine Cella of Orange Park, files a lawsuit against CSX and Amtrak after her husband, Mike, was killed when the passenger train slammed into a crewless CSX freight train.
• The county commission learns the Florida Department of Transportation will fund the proposed First Coast Expressway.

10 years ago, 2013
• The Orange Park Medical Center took part in a Department of Health workshop to ask the state not to close its Level Two trauma center.
• Sheriff Rick Beseler laid a wreath at the gravesite of Det. David White was shot and killed a year earlier in a drug raid in Middleburg.
• The local chapter of the Sierra Club attend a zoning meeting to oppose plans to build an asphalt plant on Country Road 15A.

20 years ago, 2003
• Residents on Fleming Island are alarmed after separate fires destroyed a pickup truck, a wooden swing set and a pile of wood.
• Students at Montclair Elementary were treated to a visit by Michael Waltrip’s Daytona 500-winning Chevrolet ahead of the FCAT test.
• Orange Park’s Margaret Ivey wins the Nursing Spectrum’s Travel Nursing Without Working Sweepstakes. She also got a $3,000 travel voucher and $2,000 in cash.

30 years ago, 1993
• A circuit judge rules the Clay County District Schools must turn over reports of the number of fires and construction projects in the county since 1986 to a Tampa television station.
• The Orange Park High boys’ soccer team won its seventh consecutive district title with a 6-1 win against Middleburg.
• The county hires an Orange Park engineering company to oversee Fleming Island’s $2.6 million sewer project.

40 years ago, 1983
• Associated Minerals Consolidated Limited of Australia decided to reopen a surface mining operation near Green Cove Springs.
• Astronaut David Walker is the keynote speaker during the Eagle Scout inductions.
• Laurie Evans win Miss Clay County Pageant.