This Week In History 3/2/23

Posted 3/2/23

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This Week In History 3/2/23

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Five years ago, 2018
• Oakleaf High’s Alexandria Ashanti Summerset and Oakleaf Junior High’s Rose Toledo are charged with making a false report of the use of a firearm at school.
• The Board of County Commissioners set up a public workshop to consider allowing teachers and staff members to bring weapons to schools for protection.
• Hundreds attent the annual Scottish Games at the Clay County Fairgrounds.

10 years ago, 2013
• The Clay County Education Association is challenging the termination of an Orange Park Junior High teacher for having a stun gun locked in a cabinet in her classroom.
• The traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall will make a stop in Green Cove Springs.
• Oakleaf High history teacher Mark Miller received the most donations in the Second “Kiss the Donkey” contest for the school’s Future Farmers of America club, and he had to kiss a donkey named “Bubba” as the prize.

20 years ago, 2003
• Clay County voters defeated a plan for a half-cent sales tax for Clay County District Schools.
• Orange Park Mayor Garry McIntyre denies allegations he imprisoned and and fondled a town employee in the presence of two eighth grade students.

• Orange Park High’s Josh Maulsby (140-pound division) and Clay High’s Cy Wainwright (heavyweight) win state wrestling titles.

30 years ago, 1993
• Orange Park High’s Jeremy Mineweaser will represent Clay County at the Envirothon at Ronnie Van Zant Park.
• Sheriff Scott Lancaster grounds attempts to create a Clay County Sheriff’s Office “Air Force.”
• St. Johns Country Day’s Caryn Anne Hart correctly spells “cyclical” and “wanderlust” to win the Clay County Spelling Bee.

40 years ago, 1983
• Despite cold, rainy conditions, athletes competed at the Clay County Special Olympic Games at Orange Park High.
• The Village Improvement Association in Green Cove Springs celebrates its 100th birthday.
• The Clay High softball team beats Middleburg, Keystone Heights and the Orange Park junior varsity team to win the county softball tournament.

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