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This Week in History

Posted 12/19/24

Five years ago, 2019 • Clay County Superintendent Addison Davis is being considered as a strong candidate as a replacement for retiring Jeff Eakins as the Superintendent of the Hillsborough County …

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This Week in History


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Five years ago, 2019

• Clay County Superintendent Addison Davis is being considered as a strong candidate as a replacement for retiring Jeff Eakins as the Superintendent of the Hillsborough County School District.

• The county’s financial department is in the planning stages of addressing a $130 million roadway improvement project.

• Former NFL cornerback Nolan Carroll’s foundation supports STEM programs at Clay Hill, Grove Park, S. Bryan Jennings and Swimming Pen elementary schools.

10 years ago, 2014

• School nurses form a united front to ask the school board to raise the pay to a living wage for the second time in two years.

• The Florida Department of Transportation announces plans to spend $20.4 million to widen Blanding Boulevard to six lanes and $9.7 million to resurface State Road 16.

• The Fleming Island High football team collected the most non-perishable food for the Food Pantry of Green Cove Springs to win the First Down Challenge, a competition among all football teams in the county.

20 years ago, 2004

• Four women were arrested at Spa Tan of Orange Park for offering undercover detectives sex with their messages.

• The Clay County Sheriff’s Office donated $5,980 to  the Quigley House.

• A fast-moving fire destroys a home owned by Jim Graham and Janet Patton-Clark in Green Cove Springs.

 

30 years ago, 1994

• Clay High’s Corey Hayes was selected for the first Wendy’s High School Heisman Award.

• Paul Hagen, Loubelle Long and John Muilenburg returned to the Penney Farms Town Council after winning as unopposed candidates.

• Maxville residents Debra Ann Suddeath, 33, and her daughter, Jennifer Ann Coffman, 11, died when a car on County Road 217 struck their four-wheeled lawnmower.

40 years ago, 1984

• Orange Park’s Lloyd E. Strand, 29, a Petty Officer stationed at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, was one of five reported missing over the North Arabian Sea while aboard an SH-3 helicopter.

• Clay County Girl Scouts of Gateway Council went to Penney Farms Retirement Community to celebrate Florence Beal’s 100th birthday. Beal was a Girl Scout in 1922.