Five years ago, 2017
• Residents are frustrated by the slow cleanup a month following Hurricane Irma, which forced 42 Clay County families into FEMA transitional shelters.
• The TAPS Monument in the Historic Triangle in Green Cove Springs is dedicated.
• Members of the Clay County School Board fail to offer a motion to approve state-mandated district testing after getting concerns over iReady and Achieve 3000.

10 years ago, 2012
• The Orange Park Town Council announces the Florida Department of Transportation will pay to beautify the medians and add lights on portions of Kingsley and Park avenues.
• The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation’s Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco arrested five people after they threw a house party and served alcohol to Hollee Krueger, a minor. She was struck and killed by a car after she left the party intoxicated.
• Michael Kenneth Eble Sr. is arrested for commercial bribery after witnesses said he bribed men and women who were at the Boy Scouts Camp Echokotee to perform community service for money, lunches and valuables in exchange for him signing false attendance records.

20 years ago, 2002
• Customers flock to the new Super Target, the first built in Northeast Florida, during its grand opening on Wells Road.
• The driver and a passenger were unhurt after he lost control of his pickup truck in the parking lot of The Home Depot in Orange Park and hit a tree and caromed into a stack of privacy fencing.
• Fred VanLeeuwen is selected from a group of 130 applicants to become the county’s Veterans’ Service Officer.

30 years ago, 1992
• The Emergency Room is reopened at Clay Memorial Hospital after the hospital was closed for two months because of a $2.2 million debt.
• Ken Ewer and his son, Michael, won the first Green Cove Springs Clay Port-J.P. Hall Children’s Charities Bass Tournament after catching four fish with a combined weight of 13.32 pounds.
• The county commission declares a declaration of emergency due to flooding on the north and south forks of the Black Creek.

40 years ago, 1982
• The Government Study Commission tells the Board of County Commissioners it should create the position of county manager to carry out board policy.
• The BCC sets its budget at $17 million with a reduced millage rate to 7.3149.
• The Regional Planning Council approves a plan by Stucky Properties to build a 51-unit low-income apartment complex in Green Cove Springs.