Five years ago, 2016
• Addison Davis gets 74.4% of the vote to easily become the new Superintendent of Schools.
• Orange Park officials meet with transportation authorities and the Clay County Economic Development Corp. to discuss how the First Coast Expressway will affect traffic in their town.
• The Charles “Mickey” Fields Academy Wing is dedicated at Orange Park High.

10 years ago, 2011
• Fraternal twins Erich and Christian Keplinger of Ridgeview High won the Bonnie Plants cabbage-growing competition.
• Haven Hospice volunteer Bettye Zowarka of Keystone Heights was awarded the Volunteers are the Foundation of Hospice Award for Organizational Support.
• A group of 30 students pick up an estimated 18,000 cigarette butts on River Road and Kingsley Avenue in Orange Park.

20 years ago, 2001
• The Clay County Planning Commission votes to approve changes to the Lake Asbury master plan to include a developed land-use category as a compromise to both residents and developers.
• The Orange Park Town Council votes to allow residents to not identify themselves if they file a complaint against the code enforcement department.
• Fire guts the Blue Water Bay restaurant in Melrose.

30 years ago, 1991
• Parents at Clay Hill, Green Cove Springs, Ridgeview and Charles E. Bennett elementaries vote in favor of year-round schooling.
• Incumbent Dennis Frick and challenge Ted Coleman each receive 438 votes during the election for a seat on the Orange Park Town Council.
• Swecom USA, a company that makes refrigerated containters, opens at Reynolds Industrial Park in Green Cove Springs.

40 years ago, 1981
• The county rules that bright attention-garnering lighted signs on Bland Boulevard are against the law.
• The City of Green Cove Springs agress to sell the Rosemary Hill Landfill to Clay County for $1,450 an acre and the promise the city can use the landfill for 10 years for free.
• Residents tell the BCC they oppose having a locked gate with limited access on Bayard Road with local residents having the only keys.