Five years ago, 2019

•  Officers from the Clay County Sheriff’s Office’s SWAT team and Organized Crime Unit, Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Postal Inspection Service raided a home in the Secret Harbor neighborhood off College Street. Three men were arrested after officers found drugs, cash and guns in the home.

• Newly-selected School District Police Chief Kenneth Wagner and Superintendent Addison Davis answer questions during their "Listen and Learn" event at Fleming Island High about the upcoming police department owned and operated by Clay County District Schools.

•Managing Editor Don Coble wrote a column about one time he drove Shaquille O’Neal around in his car. His relationship with O'Neal goes way back to when the NBA superstar was a rookie in 1993. 

10 years ago, 2014

• Twenty-one new firefighters are hired by the Clay County Fire Rescue Department after county receives a $2.2 million grant from FEMA.

• Green Cove Springs City Council set lofty goals to improve city buildings and infrastructure, including building a city swimming pool at the site of the old town hall and the addition of docks at the city pier on the St. Johns River.

• Teresa Scott of Fleming Island becomes the new president of the Penney Retirement Community.

20 years ago, 2004

• Clay County Clerk of Court James Jett held a press conference announcing what he termed as “sweeping changes” to the office. He said the Clerk’s Office was the only county office to hold “our budget at the 2002-2003 levels.”

• Officials with the Clay County Department of Environmental Services battled a fire inside the Rosemary Hill landfill.

30 years ago, 1994

• Officials unveiled sketches for the new Clay County Behavioral Health Center to be built at 3292 County Rd. 220 near Middleburg.

• Lt. Shawn Fox was named Firefighter of the Year by the Green Cove Springs Fire Department.

40 years ago, 1984

• Clay County Sheriff Jennings Murrhee held a news conference along with police chiefs from Green Cove Springs and Orange Park to discuss new tools used in modern crime fighting. He assembled a team that would track high crime areas in the county.

• The Sertoma Club of Orange Park honored Charlotte Tebbe with a “Service to Mankind” award.

50 years ago, 1974

• Green Cove Springs Mayor Leamon Johns won a new three-year term in office by defeating City Commissioner J.W. Williams.

•  New Florida Inc., a soap factory in Doc tors Inlet, was given a month-long permit extension by the Florida Department of Pollution Control after taking the matter to court.