Five years ago, 2020

• Dr. James Larson retired from Clay Behavioral Health Clinic after serving there for 45 years.

• Delilah Rae Gilio was born at 12:43 a.m. at the Orange Park Medical Center on Jan. 1 to be the first baby of 2005.

• Clay Electric Foundation donated $15,000 to Magnolia Point Women’s Club to support it’s Maggie’s Meal Program to feed hungry children in schools.

10 years ago, 2015

• Claude Dean Kelly, known as the “Father of the Clay County Fair,” passes away at the age of 98.

• Tara Green, the Clay County Clerk of Court and Comptroller, stops offering weddings at the courthouse because her office isn't staffed to handle the demand.

• The Florida Department of Transportation allocates $3 million to line the median of Park Avenue between the Duval County line and Kingsley Avenue with trees and other landscaping improvements.

20 years ago, 2005

• Rick Beseler is sworn in as the 27^th Sheriff of Clay County.

• The Green Cove Springs City Council took its electric utility company off the market after receiving only one bid deemed favorable by council members. Clay Electric offered $6.75 million for the facilities, $357,000 for its inventory and $157,000 for its equipment.

30 years ago, 1995

• Capt. Richard L. Dugger of Keystone Heights joined the Clay County Sheriff’s Office as the jail administrator. Dugger, who’s been in corrections since 1964, worked at the Putnam County Jail.

• State Rep. John Thrasher of Orange Park and State Sen. Jim Horne touted legislation ensuring the murder of a child be treated as seriously as the murder of an adult.

40 years ago, 1985

• The Board of Commissioners debated possibly establishing a Clay County Transit Authority to improve public transportation.

• The Green Cove Springs City Council considered appealing the state’s decision to reject a $675,000 community development block grant application to build a golf course, swimming pool and equestrian center north of Governors Creek.