Five years ago, 2016• The Florida Department of Education’s Inspector General launches an investigation on Superintendent Charlie Van Zant for plagiarism.• The Town of Orange Park …
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Five years ago, 2016
• The Florida Department of Education’s Inspector General launches an investigation on Superintendent Charlie Van Zant for plagiarism.
• The Town of Orange Park insists it’s not going to stop using its red-light cameras to issue traffic tickets.
• The Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research agrees to provide $300,000 to Keystone Heights’ Auxadyne, a company that makes Xylafoam, a revolutionary foam used in athletic equipment and medical devices.
10 years ago, 2011
• Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carrol said the First Coast Expressway was a bold step for the county’s development.
• The BCC agrees to consider a proposal that would shut down the Clay County Victim Services Center in Green Cove Springs.
• The Clay County Sheriff’s Office said it would not seek charges in a 10-year-old voyeurism case at Berean Baptist Church on Fleming Island.
20 years ago, 2001
• Stephen Wise celebrates a decisive victory in the Republican Party primary for the Florida Senate.
• Middleburg’s Douglas Gibson is shot and killed by a Clay County Sheriff’s Office deputy after he pointed a gun at him during an argument.
• The Board of County Commissioners invited United Telesystems of Savannah, Georgia, to meet with them about setting up a possible county-owned telecommunications company.
30 years ago, 1991
• Green Cove Springs installs a whistle on the city’s water tank to blow an alert at 10 p.m. ahead of a curfew for minors.
• The county increases the fees to dump trash at the Rosemary Hill Landfill to $55 a ton.
• The Green Cove Springs Police Department arrest Chet Ryan Stivender following a rash of burglaries at the Revels Nationwide RV Sales on Orange and Magnolia avenues.
40 years ago, 1981
• The state law creating a taxing authority for Palatka-based St. Johns River Water Management District is ruled unconstitutional by the 5th District Court of Appeals in Daytona Beach.
• Two inmates are caught before they got out of the Clay County Jail after they overpowered a guard and took his keys.
• Green Cove Springs continues to pay for disallowed costs from 1977-78 charged to the Economic Development Administration.