Esoteric: (e-suh-ter-ick) an adjective that means a subject that’s understood by a select few.

“There were only a few viewers to the presentation because the information was too esoteric for wide appeal.”

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Five years ago, 2018

• The personnel file for District 1 School Board candidate Latanya Peterson shows she was terminated as a teacher in Duval County for having “problems with her license.”

• Health officials sound the “all clear” signal after samples show there was no longer a threat of the West Nile Virus.

• U.S. Congressman Ted Yoho announces those registered with the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System will soon have a permanent home at the Doctors Inlet Center on College Drive.

10 years ago, 2013

• The property tax rate was set at 2.9821 mills in Green Cove Springs.

• U.S. Marshals captured Adrian Bernard Seward at the Jacksonville motel after he was charged with killing his wife in Oakleaf when she asked him to sign divorce papers.

• The Orange Park Town Council is considering spending $50,000 to study the best way to spruce up the eastern end of Kingsley Avenue at River Road.

20 years ago, 2003

• The Clay County School Board makes final revisions to the attendance boundaries for Orange Park and Wilkerson junior highs.

• Two Clay County students – Melissa Antolik of Clay High and Christina Mills from Middleburg High – attend the Teen Trendsetters Reading Mentoring Summit.

• Brian Curtis Avery is charged with attempted murder after the Clay County Sheriff’s Office accused him of pointing a gun at Jason Daniel Hall.

30 years ago, 1993

• The Clay County School Board decided to build a new elementary school in Keystone Heights instead of Fleming Island after residents from Keystone Heights attended the meeting.

• Lt. Col. Thomas Scott and Connie Lynn Hogrefe of Melbourne become the parents of the first set of triplets born at the Orange Park Medical Center in 15 years and just the second set in the hospital’s history.

• The Clay County Department of Environmental Services conducted a survey to see what businesses actively recycle.

40 years ago, 1983

• Nine people, including seven juveniles, were charged with shoplifting from several stories, including the Orange Park Mall.

• The Orange Park Town Council passed an ordinance that prohibits anyone from soliciting or panhandling at any event on busy intersections.

• Chief State Assistant Attorney Ralph Green resigns after being accused of getting preferential treatment for friends in criminal cases.