Five years ago, 2020 

• The Internal Revenue Service revokes the nonprofit status of four athletic associations – Clay County Adult Softball Association, Fleming Island Little League, Green Cove Springs Athletic Association and Middleburg Athletic Association – which will affect their leases with the county. 

• Drew Cox, 17, and Zachary Gray, 16, both of Orange Park, are charged with shooting a cow on County Road 315 with a hunting rifle. 

• The Florida Commission awards Clay Transit coordinator Sheryl Hartzog the Sheila Winitzer Shining Star Award for the Transportation Disadvantaged after she added flex routes and increased fleets to 38 vehicles. 

10 years ago, 2015 

• County Commissioner Doug Conkey easily retains his District 2 seat and Janice Kerekes garners 62% of the vote to win the open seat on the school board on election day. 

• The Green Cove Springs Police Department said it's looking for additional juveniles who may have been contacted by Larry Wayne Hamrick, who was arrested a week earlier for lewd and lascivious behavior of a child. 

• Green Cove Springs Police Chief Bob Musco reminds residents not to overreact when three red light cameras go into operation in two weeks. 

20 years ago, 2005 

• After being referred by seven special magistrate candidates from the state’s Public Employees Relations Commission, Anthony R. Baldwin is appointed as a special magistrate to settle contract negotiations between the Clay Board of Commissioners and the county’s firefighters union. 

• Moved by shocking images of Hurricane Katrina’s strike on New Orleans, Annunciation Catholic School first grader Mikie Peterson holds a toy drive for children hit by the massive storm. 

• Communications consultant Doug Voss of Winter Park-based Voss and Associates presents results of a communications audit of the Clay County School District, warning officials that there is so much pride here that there is a false sense of “we’re really, really good.” 

30 years ago, 1995 

• The Clay County School Board ratifies new contracts for teachers and support staff, giving each group a 4% raise. 

• The football field at Clay High is officially named C.B. Bowles Field in honor of the man who had been a Clay High head football coach, teacher and principal and was elected school superintendent in 1940. In 1954, Bowles was hired as Green Cove Springs City Manager. 

• Orange Park Medical Center announces a partnership with St. Simons Island, Georgia-based New Visions Center for Health and Wellness to provide expanded psychiatric services in its 24-bed psychiatric unit. 

40 years ago, 1985 

• The City of Green Cove Springs signs an agreement with John Forbes and Forbes Trust to annex 1,000 acres of Forbes’ Magnolia Point Golf and Country Club into the city limits. 

• William and Norma Lakin, former residents of Orange Park, sue Orange Park Little League Association in circuit court seeking damages for their son who remained in a coma after being struck by lightning during batting practice the previous June. 

• Defense attorney Patrick McGuiness files court papers stating Dana Ibach of Jacksonville was mentally unfit to stand trial for the murder of Westberry Griffis III, whom Ibach described as his husband.