Five years ago, 2017
• Orange Park Mayor Eugene Nix alleges voters who didn’t live within the town limits may have voted in the Super Municipal Tuesday election.
• Green Cove Spring City Council tells contractor Core Construction it will fine it $500 a day for delays to the restoration of Spring Park.
• Keystone Heights’ Echo Saunders wins a contest for WJCT’s 45th anniversary with her artwork promoting public broadcasting.

10 years ago, 2012
• Orange Park Medical Center celebrates the completion of a $19 million 13,000-square-foot Emergency Department.
• An investigation reveals $213,000 was stolen from the Town of Penney Farms’ bank accounts in an internet-based scheme originating in China and Australia. The money was recovered and no town officials were involved.
• The Orange Park Town Council discusses ways to create better access to Doctors Lake from Dogwood Lane.

20 years ago, 2002
• The City of Green Cove Springs denies an application to move Ham Jam to Reynolds Industrial Park.
• Families of Missing Loved Ones remains determined to find Green Cove Springs resident Yvonne Belcher, who disappeared two years earlier following a domestic disturbance at her home, by posting her picture on billboards around Jacksonville.
• Clay Today “Homespun News” columnist Carolyn “Candy” Jackson passes away following a long illness.

30 years ago, 1992
• Services are held in Green Cove Springs for former judge and U.S. Representative Thomas J. Rivers, 87, after he died following a brief illness.
• The Clay County Commission will seek funds from the Department of Defense’s “Defense Access Road” program for several proposed projects.
• Clay County joins the NAACP and Common Cause to oppose a plan to divide the county into four districts in the Florida House of Representatives.

40 years ago, 1982
• Dick Beseler easily wins a seat on the Green Cove Springs City Council after running on a platform to tear down the “old guard political power structure” of the council.
• Florida Sen. Joe Carlucci of Duval County promises Clay County residents they will have a voice in the upcoming reapportionment plan to place the county in his district.
• A 7E-Corsair jet loses power and crashes into the Foxmeadow subdivision; however, the pilot, crew of three and residents in the subdivision we’re injured.