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This Week in History

Posted 11/21/24

Five years ago, 2019 • The Fleming Island High girls 200 medley swim team of Abree Clark, Sarah and Emma Grimm and Christina Johnson won Stuart's Class 3A state championship. • Fleming Island …

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This Week in History


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Five years ago, 2019

• The Fleming Island High girls 200 medley swim team of Abree Clark, Sarah and Emma Grimm and Christina Johnson won Stuart's Class 3A state championship.

• Fleming Island High athletic fields were renamed after longtime coach and athletic director Randy Warren.

• McRae Elementary students, parents and faculty raised money for the school’s physical education teacher, who’s been battling cancer for more than six years.

10 years ago, 2014

• The Clay County School Board votes to accept the resignation of attorney Bruce Bickner.

• The Women’s Auxiliary of the Salvation Army of Clay County enjoys a successful Empty Bowls luncheon to raise awareness and raise funds to end hunger in Clay County by stocking shelves of its food pantry shelves at its Corps Headquarters in Middleburg.

• An Orange Park family is awarded $2.2. million after Daniel Linsinbigler, 19, was pepper sprayed and hooded at the Clay County Jail and placed in a restraint chair. He was pepper sprayed and Tasered before he was found dead.

20 years ago, 2004

• The Orange Park Police Department announced it had arrested one of two suspects – Johnny Gore – from an August break-in of the Bel-Med Athletic Association concession stand, where $300 worth of candy, $3,500 worth of checks and $100 in cash was stolen.

• Moosehaven hosts a tearful Veterans Day celebration at its Pavilion, completed earlier that year by the Orange Park Rotary Club.

• Keystone Heights Elementary students, staff, teachers and townspeople took a moment to remember former 19-year-old student Gary Cooper, who was killed in Vietnam.