20 years ago, 2002
• County Road 220 is dedicated as Gen. Roy S. Geiger Parkway.
• The U.S. Environmental Agency decides it “has reason to believe that there may be a release or threat of a release of hazardous substances” at the closed Doctors Inlet Landfill.
• Gov. Jeb Bush is welcomed by an enthusiast crowd the First Coast Republican Party fish fry in Orange Park.

30 years ago, 1992
• More than 300 residents attend the grand opening of the Weigel Senior Center in Middleburg.
• Three men are arrested in Keystone Heights following a six-month string of burglaries.
• Harry Eugene Truesdell is arrested in Green Cove Springs is arrested for animal cruelty after being seen having sex with a horse.

40 years ago, 1982
• School board members now must run as either a Republican, Democrat or Independent instead of non-partisan.
• Two people drown – one in Kingsley Lake, the other in an Orange Park swimming pool – during the Fourth of July holiday.
• A murder victim found in the charred remains of an apartment on Ferris Street in Green Cove Springs still hasn’t been identified.