Five years ago, 2018
• The Clay County Planning Commission voted 3-2 to allow medical marijuana treatment centers in Clay County. The measure still needed approval by the Board of County Commissioners.
•The county decides to move $7 million from the recovery fund to the Disaster Recovery Fund to pay for cleanup following Hurricane Irma.
• About 50 people brave 57-degree temperatures to take part in the New Year’s Day Polar Plunge at Eagle Harbour.

10 years ago, 2013
• An off-duty Clay County Sheriff’s Office deputy stopped a Jacksonville man seen entering the AMC Theatre through an exit door, and in the process, he uncovered a nine-millimeter handgun in his waistband.
• Jacob Paul Priest was arrested for indecent exposure after CCSO deputies said he was walking down Tumbleweed Drive in the Ridgeview area wearing nothing but white shoes.
• Middleburg’s Daniel Richard Bakaley was charged with receiving child pornography over the internet.

20 years ago, 2003
• The Green Cove Springs City Council is ecstatic after learning a construction project to add 23,000 linear feet of six-inch water mains was completed by MacDonald Construction on time and under budget.
• Hundreds of community leaders, city, council, state and federal government officials and environmental activists to explore the preservation and restoration of St. Johns River.
• The Clay County Sheriff’s Office provides bicycles for deputies to better patrol Orange Park High.

30 years ago, 1993
• Clay Today journalist Elaine Williamson was selected as the Citizen of the Year by the Elks Lodge in Green Cove Springs.
• Keystone Heights’ Andrew Lawrence Irwin was born at 1:51 a.m. on Jan. 1 to be the county’s first baby of the new year.
• The Orange Park High boys soccer team finishes fourth at the 16-team Hooters Classic in Miami.

40 years ago, 1983
• The Board of County Commissioners will address stricter guidelines for septic tanks at its next meeting.
• The Clay County Sheriff’s Office ruled the double shooting of two men an accident after a hunter mistook both for deer.
• Students of art teacher Jean Pelligrino was put on display at the Orange Park Branch of the Clay County Library.