Five years ago, 2017
• County commissioners may get an 89% pay increase to help push their salaries to the same levels as other counties.
• Ground is broken for St. Johns Classical Academy on Fleming Island.
• Two-time Grammy award winning jazz drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. holds a clinic at Oakleaf Junior High.

10 years ago, 2012
• Tow truck driver Napoleon Ballard of Keystone Heights is killed when he became trapped under the front tire of a pickup truck he was towing.
• Despite a rejection from the planning commission, the BCC moved forward to allow digital billboards.
• Mary Ann McCall of Fleming Island is charged with taking at least $50,000 from victims after she told them she needed help paying her bills because she was dying of cancer.

20 years ago, 2002
• The Board of County Commissioners and the School Board work to create a draft of an ordinance to levy school impact fees to keep pace with growth.
• Kellie Jo Kilberg is hired to run the Clay County Economic Development Council and Clay County Development Authority.
• Students at Doctors Inlet Elementary present a multi-cultured program called “Christmas on Candy Cane Lane.”

30 years ago, 1992
• The first-degree murder trial for Andrew Clemons ends in a hung jury. Clemons was accused of killing Orange Park Winn-Dixie assistant manager Kevin Baker during a robbery.
• The Orange Park High football team loses to Manatee, 37-17, in the Class 5A semifinals.
• Bikers participate in a Harley Christmas to collect toys during its Toy Fun Run project.

40 years ago, 1982
• Talmadge Stuckey reluctantly is approved for a 52-unit apartment complex in Green Cove Springs.
• County Property Appraiser Mickey Murray said the county will lose about $400,000 after the state’s Supreme Court strikes down the five-year requirement to qualify for $25,000 homestead exemption.
• The school board decides to call elementary school “C” Ridgeview Elementary.