Five years ago, 2018

• The Jacksonville Transportation Authority took over as the transportation coordinator for disadvantaged residents who relied on the Clay County Council on Aging’s Clay Transit service. The council took on hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses due to a lack of ridership, staff turnover and maintenance costs.

• In a letter to the editor, CEO of ElderSource Linda Levin affirmed her decision to cut ties with the Clay County Council on Aging. She promised that services would continue to be provided to the county’s seniors and that no one from the council would lose their jobs.

10 years ago, 2013

• Alesia Ford-Burse said she was excited to announce that Orange Park Performing Arts Academy was gearing up to open with its inaugural class in the fall, which became Clay County’s first charter school.

• St. Vincent’s Medical Center Clay County teamed up with Operation Walk USA as part of a national program to provide free hip replacement surgery to patients who could not otherwise afford it. The recipient, then-53 Johnny DeWayne Cook, who had been living with pain for 39 years from an original surgery that healed improperly.

20 years ago, 2003

• Clay County Fire and Rescue was awarded a $57,036 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to purchase new emergency medical equipment.

• The Orange Park Medical Center Auxiliary presented a $10,000 scholarship

to the St. Johns River Community College Foundation, which was earmarked for students wanting to pursue careers in the medical field.

30 years ago, 1993

• St. Johns Country Day School students were enlisted to star in a public service announcement for the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A video crew came to the school and shot the commercials that would air statewide.

• About a dozen members of the Nathan Bedford Forrest Brigade division of the Ku Klux Klan handed out leaflets and answered questions at Municipal Park in Keystone Heights.

40 years ago, 1983

• Green Cove Springs City Council members struggled with ways to force Gustafson’s Dairy to pay its delinquent power bill owed the city. Officials said the dairy owed the city $1,676.

• Robert Van Lieu of Orange Park was chosen to be a contestant on the TV game show “The Price is Right.” Van Lieu won more than $4,000 in prizes.