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This Week in History 3/5/20

Clay Today
Posted 3/4/20

Five years ago, 2015

A quilt is unveiled commemorating the 10 years the Clay County Headquarters library has been open on Fleming Island.

Orange Park Elementary celebrates 9,000 books being …

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This Week in History 3/5/20


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Five years ago, 2015

A quilt is unveiled commemorating the 10 years the Clay County Headquarters library has been open on Fleming Island.

Orange Park Elementary celebrates 9,000 books being check out at the school’s library during February in response to media specialists Mary Pat Callihan’s challenge.

Oakleaf High small forward Jade Lewis is selected as Clay Today’s girls basketball player of the year.

10 years ago, 2010

The Florida Department of Transportation wraps up its plans for an outer beltway through Clay County that connects St. Johns County to Interstate 10.

Keystone Heights Mayor Mary Lou Hildreth goes skydiving with the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team.

The Green Cove Springs City Council starts a discussion that may allow voters to decide whether alcohol can be sold on Sundays.

20 years ago, 2000

The Clay County School Board consider a name for a new elementary planned for the area between County Road 220 and Russell Road in Middleburg. “School Q” eventually was named RideOut Elementary.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office break up a counterfeit money and fake check scheme that involved more than a dozen states with the arrest of three men in Green Cove Springs.

Two Orange Park train conductors with the Florida East Coast Railway Co. are arrested by the Clay County Drug Task Force and the Orange Park Police Department and charged with trafficking methamphetamine and “ecstasy.”

30 years ago, 1990

The Clay High boys basketball team stuns defending state champion Bolles, 65-64, to earn the Blue Devils a spot in the Final Four.

Laveta Cresgy is shot and killed by her estranged husband with an AK-47 in Orange Park before he held their 9-year-old daughter hostage for about 30 minutes before surrendering.

Clay Electric announces Thomas Silcox Jr. became the cooperative’s its 100,000th customer.

40 years ago, 1980

The City of Green Cove Springs joins a national program to offer assistance to help pay electric bills for low income families.

Twenty-five arrest warrants are issued for county residents who are accused of food stamp fraud.

County residents get a brief, yet delightful, snow shower as a storm system that started in the west moves across North Florida.